MBDA and Mitsubishi Electric agreecollaboration for Effects domain to support thedesign of GCAP core-platform
MBDA’s UK, MBDA Italia and Japan’s Mitsubishi Electric Corporation haveannounced at DSEI 2023 the signing of a collaboration agreement to work
towards an Effects Domain to support the design of core-platform as part of theGlobal Combat Air Programme (GCAP).
In this Effects domain, the three companies will work together to ensure the seamlessintegration of weapons for the GCAP platform.
Looking to the future, the collaboration will also include working on weapon effects
management and related technologies.
The collaboration agreement is focused on aligning national approaches to Effector
integration of the GCAP partners, it does not include the joint development of effectors.
MBDA, a world leader in complex weapon systems, has a long history of working
collaboratively on major defence programmes, both between its national companies
and with other major companies. As part of the UK's Team Tempest effort at the startof 2018, and expanding in 2019 as Italy joins the growing programme, the company
brings decades of experience in integrating and developing weapon systems forvarious Combat Air platforms.
Mitsubishi Electric is a recognised global leader in its field. The company played a keyrole in Japan's F-2 programme and has been involved in the development of Japan's FX next-generation fighter programme. Now that Japan, the UK and Italy have joined
forces to create the Global Combat Air Programme, Mitsubishi Electric is also working
with Leonardo and Elettronica on GCAP's advanced electronics.
This experience and combined expertise will be fundamental in ensuring that theGCAP effects domain works in harmony with the platform's other domains - mission
systems, sensors, power - exploiting the information advantage they will provide andtogether maximising mission effectiveness. Giving GCAP customers a decisive
advantage in the Combat Air.
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About MBDA
MBDA is a unique multi-national European group, a world-leader in the field of complex
weapon systems, playing a key role in keeping nations safe. Created in the spirit ofinternational co-operation, MBDA and its 14,000+ employees work together to support
the national sovereignty of the UK, France, Italy, Germany, Spain and their alliesworldwide. As an accelerator of innovation, MBDA is the only European group capableof designing and manufacturing complex weapons to meet the full range of current andfuture operational requirements of the three armed forces (land, sea and air). Airbus(37.5%), BAE Systems (37.5%) and Leonardo (25%) jointly own MBDA.
About Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
With more than 100 years of experience in providing reliable, high-quality products,
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO: 6503) is a recognized world leader in themanufacture, marketing and sales of electrical and electronic equipment used ininformation processing and communications, space development and satellitecommunications, consumer electronics, industrial technology, energy, transportation
and building equipment. Mitsubishi Electric enriches society with technology in the spiritof its “Changes for the Better.” The company recorded a revenue of 5,003.6 billion yen(U.S.$ 37.3 billion*) in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2023. For more information,please visit www.MitsubishiElectric.com*U.S. dollar amounts are translated from yen at the rate of ¥134=U.S.$1, theapproximate rate on the Tokyo Foreign Exchange Market on March 31, 2023
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