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DSEI 2025: MBDA’s new SPEAR GLIDE munition breaks cover

9th September 2025 - 06:00 GMT | by Lucy Powell in London, UK

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A rendered image of the SPEAR GLIDE missile. (Image: MBDA)

The high-mass saturation weapon, positioned as a low-cost variant in the SPEAR portfolio, could be indigenously produced by any future customer, according to MBDA.

MBDA has unveiled a first look at a new product in its SPEAR family portfolio, designed to meet the future requirements of a medium-range utility strike weapon and enable greater saturation and suppression of adversaries’ air defences at a shorter range.

Named SPEAR GLIDE, the missile is positioned as a low-cost variant of the main SPEAR product and will be primarily aimed at the fourth-generation combat aircraft market, such as the Eurofighter Typhoon, Gripen E/F and KF 21, according to an MBDA spokesperson who spoke to select media ahead of DSEI.

Matured over the last 18 months, the product has

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