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French wildfires threaten nuclear deterrence industry, Rafale assembly Original

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By Rudy Ruitenberg Verified
| Defense News Verified
PARIS — Wildfires raging west of the French city of Bordeaux are threatening a number of France’s key defense-industrial sites, including an ArianeGroup facility that produces propulsion components for the M51 submarine-launched ballistic missile, Dassault Aviation’s final assembly line for the Rafale fighter jet, and one of Roxel’s main manufacturing sites for solid rocket motors used in MBDA missiles.
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Germany to study French cooperation offer on SAMP/T air-defense system

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By Sebastian Sprenger Verified, Rudy Ruitenberg Verified
| Yahoo Verified
COLOGNE, Germany — German government leaders will study an offer by French President Emmanuel Macron to cooperate on the French-Italian SAMP/T air defense system, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius confirmed on Tuesday. Pistorius' comments amount to the first official response to a proposal by Macron at a July 17 bilateral ministerial summit to include Germany in the co-production of Europe's only locally made long-range air defense system and alternative to the Patriot.
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MBDA appoints Airbus executive Jean-Brice Dumont as new CEO Original

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By Rudy Ruitenberg Verified
| Defense News Verified
PARIS — MBDA, Europe’s largest missile maker, appointed Airbus Defence and Space executive Jean-Brice Dumont as its new chief executive officer effective Nov. 1 to succeed Eric Béranger, who has led the maker of the Meteor air-to-air missile and Aster air-defense missile since June 2019. The executives will start a handover process in October to ensure “a seamless transition,” MBDA said on Wednesday.
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