British Mini Cruise Missile Targets 2025 Service Entry

Tony Osborne January 20, 2021
Spear 3 mini cruise missile
A primary mission for Spear 3 will be destruction of increasingly capable enemy air defense systems, especially when combined with electronic warfare variants of the weapon.
Credit: MBDA
The UK has given the green light for the production of the Spear 3 missile, an air-launched weapon with technologies that could enable it to collaborate and coordinate strikes with other systems in the future. £550 million contract awarded to MBDA for Spear 3 production F-35 will be able to carry...
Tony Osborne

Based in London, Tony covers European defense programs. Prior to joining Aviation Week in November 2012, Tony was at Shephard Media Group where he was deputy editor for Rotorhub and Defence Helicopter magazines.

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