The UK Ministry of Defence has established a close working relationship with industry to provide the complex weapons needed to enable the strike force. Today, this agreement has been extended to new weapons that will be built with France via MBDA. In 2010, the Ministry of Defense (MoD) signed a long-term partnership agreement with MBDA, called the Premier Portfolio Management Agreement (PMA-I). The portfolio`s approach is also expected to reduce programs targeted at individual services that produce anomalies such as RAF Harrier GR.3 missiles and RN Sea Harrier missiles that were not interchangeable in 1982. These lessons were not learned at the time of brimstone`s introduction, but I hope that SPEAR CAP 3 will have dispelled this situation, frankly senseless. The main objectives of the portfolio partnership were to maximise commonalities, encourage the reuse of sub-components and reduce development time and improve cooperation with European partners. The deal included spending of around £600 million a year. While Jean-Yves Le Drian, French Minister of Defense, is going to London to reaffirm Anglo-French relations, this agreement makes it possible to exchange certain technologies to support the development of future generations of missiles developed by the missile entrepreneur MBDA. These include the helicopter-launched anti-ship weapon, called Sea Venom, and other future national and joint programs to meet British and French military requirements over the next decade and beyond. The SPEAR (Selective Precision Effects at Range) program began around 2006 (although internal work had begun earlier) to define a number of air weapons as part of the complex weapons portfolio. The weapons will be aerial stand-off weapons that can be used day and night against a large number of stationary and mobile targets and capable of defeating counter-measures. The complex weapons portfolio has seen increasing industrial consolidation and integration, which was actually one of the fundamental objectives of the portfolio approach. With the growing cooperation between the UK and France, complex weapons have also focused more on Britain and France.
www.gov.uk/government/news/joint-complex-weapons-agreement-with-france-as-uk-and-french-relations-deepen This agreement should preserve sovereign industrial capabilities by providing a predictable roadmap. It was a clever tactic from the defense and the manufacturers, and I think they don`t get enough recognition. By moving the adversarial agreement from the former supplier-customer to a portfolio partnership, he has created an environment in which innovation can be taken into account and the negative effects of partying and hunger can be significantly reduced. In return for this assured workflow, the industry would commit to achieving a large number of efficiency savings over the first ten-year period. Non-MBDA/Thales weapons were not included in the portfolio agreements, such as the Raytheon Paveway IV, Boeing Tomahawk Cruise or Hellfire missiles. It also excluded infantry weapons such as Javelin and NLAW.. . .