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Home» News»NATO countries sign MoU on Maritime Battle Decisive Munitions initiative
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Together with seven other countries, Belgium signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the NATO Maritime Battle Decisive Munitions (MBDM) program in order to achieve the same objective in the maritime field, the Belgian Defense Directorate General Material Resources (DGMR) announced today.
Several NATO countries' frigates sailing together during Ex. Dynamic Manta 2019 (Credit: NATO)

NATO countries sign MoU on Maritime Battle Decisive Munitions initiative

Together with seven other countries, Belgium signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the NATO Maritime Battle Decisive Munitions (MBDM) program in order to achieve the same objective in the maritime field, the Belgian Defense Directorate General Material Resources (DGMR) announced today.

Nathan Gain 27 Jun 2019

The MoU follows the Letter of Intent (LoI) which was signed on July 2018 by Belgium, France, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal and Spain. Yesterday, Finland joined the initiative as first partner nation. 

The MBDM initiative includes all munition defined by participating Allies and partners as decisive for operations in the maritime domain. The variety of ammunition is widespread and includes surface-to-air missiles, surface-to-surface missiles, torpedoes and gun shells. The MBDM is the third one of the NATO High Visibility Projects in the area of munitions, the previous two being Land Battle Decisive Munitions (LBDM) and Precision Guided Munition (PGM).

This NATO program provides a framework for the acquisition and life-cycle management of key munitions for the maritime domain. Furthermore, it aims to increase flexibility in stockpile management by decreasing legal and technical obstacles to sharing and exchanging munitions.

🇭🇷 & 🇬🇧join Land Battle Decisive Munition #LBDM program under 🇧🇪 lead, 🇮🇹 & 🇸🇰 join Air-to-Ground Precision Guided Munition #A2GPGM initiative: marking yet another enlargement of 2 successful projects aiming at simpler and cheaper munition acquisition and warehousing #WEARENATO pic.twitter.com/yeCYizGt26

— Material Resources (@DGMR_News) June 27, 2019

Overall, the management of the munition throughout its whole lifetime can be systematically done on a multinational level. In the long term, the project endeavors to increase the interchangeability of MBDM stockpiles as well as achieving greater commonality among the nations’ inventories.

This MoU provides the legal basis for the participants to jointly acquire and commonly stockpile and store a wide range of maritime munitions. Within the MoU the participants have agreed on establishing a Management Group (MG) with a rotating lead nation role. Under this MG, for each specific munition type, an MBDM Sub-group will be established to manage activities for this particular munition type.

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Posted by : Nathan Gain
Nathan is based in Namur, Belgium. He holds an MA in modern history with a minor in international relations from the Catholic University of Louvain (UCL – Belgium). Fascinated by military history he naturally turned to the defense sector after graduating and is particularly interested in Northern European and Belgian defense issues as well as in anything related to naval aviation.

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