PARIS — European missile giant MBDA plans hire 2,800 new workers and invest €5 billion ($5.8 billion) over the next five years in order to increase weapons production, CEO Eric Béranger said this morning during the firm’s 2025 results.
In comments that often sounded like a victory lap, Béranger stated that “MBDA has attained an unprecedented strategic dimension as one of the instrumental pillars of rearmament in Europe,” a claim he based off of three key figures: that MBDA’s 2025 revenues amounted to €5.8 billion ($6.7 billion), that the order intake was €13.2 billion ($15.2 billion) of which 70 percent came from European customers, and the order backlog was worth €44.4 billion ($51.3 billion).
Béranger stressed that missile systems are a critical…
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