Eurofighter GmbH has signed a Meteor weapon system integration contract with NETMA.

The purpose of the contract is to facilitate and secure integration of MBDA's Meteor Beyond Visual Range Missile system. The contract was signed at the Paris Air Show 2013 in Le Bourget by Jesus Pinillos Prieto, General Manager of NETMA and Alberto Gutierrez, Chief Executive Officer of Eurofighter GmbH. It was witnessed by high-level defence representatives from all the four core nations of Eurofighter: Philip Dunne, Minister for Defence Equipment Support & Technology in the United Kingdom; Stéphane Beemelmans, Secretary of State for Defence in Germany; Roberta Pinotti, Under Secretary of State for Defence in Italy, and Pedro Argüelles Salaverría, Secretary of State for Defence in Spain.

The Meteor missile system, integrated with the current class-leading M-Scan radar (and in the future the advanced E-Scan radar) fitted to the Eurofighter, and utilising the full potential of two-way data-link communication, will greatly increase the ‘no-escape-zone' around the aircraft enhancing both its effectiveness and lethality.