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defence
The defence sector is seeking
cost-effective alternatives
Until fairly recently, the defence industry has been
operating in near-total technical self-sufficiency,
developing its own solutions uniquely for its own
uses. Now that most countries are slashing their
defence budgets, defence solutions need to be
even more high-tech. This creates a dilemma. But
once again, composites have a role to play. The
British and French governments are helping out the
missile industry via a joint technological research
programme that is under the direction of MBDA.
The goal is to adapt existing technologies from
other sectors for their own needs at lower cost.
S
ince 2007, European
missile industry leader
MBDA has been at the
head of the Materials and
Components for Missiles
Innovation and Technology
Partnership (MCM ITP)
research and technology
programme on behalf of the
French and British ministries
of defence. Over the past six
years, and with an annual
budget of approximately €14
million funded equally by
the two governments and by
industry, the programme has
supported over 90 research
projects involving 89 industrial partners, SMEs, research
centres and academia in
France and the United King-
dom (see Figure 1).
The MCM ITP programme
will allow technologies to be
matured in the laboratory.
Once validated, these can
then be incorporated into future technology demonstrators for missiles, equipment
or missile systems. These
could then be used by the
armed forces in weapons that
could become operational
over the next decade and
beyond.
The programme covers all
areas of missile development
(including systems, infrared and radar sensors, solid
propulsion, air-breathing
propulsion, warheads, safety
and arming units and fuzes,
materials and electronics).
Each area is led either by
MBDA or one of its partners
(Nexter, Qinetiq, Roxel,
Safran Microturbo, Selex ES
and Thales).
Within the defence sector,
the MCM-ITP programme
is a unique business model.
The principle of government
and industrial co-financing
supported by bilateral government agreements enables
both countries to benefit
from full access to all the
technologies being explored
across the programme. The
programme’s balanced system of governance ensures
that SMEs and private and
public research centres
receive approximately 30%
of the funds allocated to this
initiative. It also allows for
the involvement of the kind
of SMEs and laboratories
that would not normally be
part of MBDA’s usual network, nor that of its partners
Fig. 1: The MCM ITP industrial consortium partners are: MBDA, THALES, Roxel, Selex ES, Safran Microturbo, QinetiQ
and Nexter Munitions
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Point of view > looking to the future
Contents
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APPLICATIONS
Elevator
Sport & leisure
Defense
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MARKET
Automotive
US market
SPECIAL JEC AMERICAS
9th I.C.S.
Awards
Canada: country guest of honor
RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
Graphene
Tow placement
TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATIONS
NDT
Software
Epoxy
Index
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JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #83 - August/September 2013 - Tow placement
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