Submarine Air Defence Weapon
On 26th September 2012 DNCS at the company's Le Mourillon plant announced plans to design and build a submarine canister-based air defence weapon based on the Mistral. The concept is based on the British SLAM missile developed by Vickers in the 1970's and employed on the HMS Aeneas
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