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MBDA outlines key countries for FLAADS

18th March 2016 - 14:18 GMT | by Grant Turnbull in London

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MBDA has identified at least four countries that could be potential customers for its land-based future local area air defense system (FLAADS), currently in development for the British Army.

Speaking at the company’s annual press conference in London on 17 March, David Armstrong, MBDA UK’s managing director told journalists that work had already begun to promote the system around the world.

‘We are already offering it in the land-based domain,’ said Armstrong.

He told Shephard that the four countries MBDA was targeting in the near term were: Australia, Malaysia, Brunei and Switzerland. ‘There are others further on but our

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