MBDA has received three contracts worth around £400 million to boost and sustain the Sea Viper principal area air defence system of the Royal Navy’s Type 45 destroyers.

The Royal Navy's Sea Viper Air Defence system will be upgraded with updated missiles that will enable it to defeat ballistic missile...

MBDA UK is moving forward with a two-stage programme intended to confer the Royal Navy’s (RN’s) Sea Viper anti-air guided weapon system with an organic anti-ship ballistic missile (ASBM) ‘detect-to-defeat’ capability later this decade.