 mbda is a missile developer and manufacturer with operations in france, germany, italy, spain, the united kingdom and the united states.mbda â¢ european centres of excellencembda inc. us division corporate page it was formed by a merger of french aÃ©rospatiale-matra missiles (of eads, now airbus group), italian alenia marconi systems (of finmeccanica) and british matra bae dynamics (of bae systems) in december 2001.http://www.mbda-systems.com/about-mbda/shareholders/ in 2003 the company had 10,000 employees. in 2011, mbda recorded a turnover of â¬3 bn, produced over 3,000 missiles and achieved an order book of â¬10.5 bn. mbda works with over 90 armed forces worldwide. ==history== the consolidation of europe's missile companies began in 1996, when parts of matra defense and bae dynamics merged their missile activities to form matra bae dynamics (mbd). matra bae dynamics represented half of matra hautes technologies' missile business, the other half was matra missiles which became aÃ©rospatiale-matra missiles (amm). then, matra group merged with aÃ©rospatiale in 1999. in 2000, aÃ©rospatiale-matra became part of eads.  in 1998, gec-marconi radar and defence systems and alenia difesa combined their missile and radar activities to form alenia marconi systems (ams). in 1999 gec-marconi (renamed marconi electronic systems) was sold to british aerospace and became part of the merged company, bae systems.  in december 2001, mbd (including amm) and the missile and missile systems activities of ams merged, creating mbda.{{cite news|title=eads, bae and finmeccanica complete mbda merger|work=defense daily international |publisher= |date=2001-12-21 |acce
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