{"id":368668,"date":"2025-08-24T02:11:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T02:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/368668\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T02:11:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T02:11:19","slug":"missile-defence-systems-to-be-built-in-greater-manchester-as-part-of-118m-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/368668\/","title":{"rendered":"Missile defence systems to be built in Greater Manchester as part of \u00a3118m project"},"content":{"rendered":"

The expanding firm said the \u00a3118M contract for Land Ceptor systems would protect jobs at their siteUK Minister for Armed Forces Luke Pollard is shown missile system production at MBDA Bolton<\/p>\n

Six air defence missile systems to bolster national defence are to be built in Greater Manchester.<\/p>\n

A \u00a3118m contract, announced today with Bolton<\/a> based MBDA will support up to 140 jobs.<\/p>\n

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is buying six new Land Ceptor air defence missile systems.<\/p>\n

It said the first live firing of the system was so accurate it could \u2018hit a tennis-ball sized object travelling twice the speed of sound\u2019.<\/p>\n

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The systems will form part of Sky Sabre, a state-of-the-art defence system capable of intercepting cruise missiles, aircraft and drones.<\/p>\n

The sophisticated system can also simultaneously control the flight of 24 missiles, guiding them each to intercept separate targets at once.<\/p>\n

A Land Ceptor system launching (Pic: MBDA)<\/p>\n

The UK is doubling the number of deployable Sky Sabre systems operated by the armed forces in a drive to reinforce air defences.<\/p>\n

The MBDA site in Bolton recently announced an expansion of 700 new jobs.<\/p>\n

Defence already supports 1,300 jobs there and around 5,000 more at other MBDA sites.<\/p>\n

Chris Allam, managing director MBDA UK, said: \u201cWe welcome this contract as it builds on our strategic partnership with the UK Ministry of Defence.<\/p>\n

\u201cLand Ceptor is an excellent example of the innovative capability that this partnership has produced and delivered to the British Army.<\/p>\n

\u201cBuilding these weapon systems has been a key part of our growth at our Bolton site and this contract helps us to sustain this expansion going forward.<\/p>\n

\u201cManufacturing more launchers will provide more jobs and sustain many vital partners in our supply chain.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust as importantly, it will give the army the decisive military capability and increased scale needed in air defence.\u201d<\/p>\n

Minister for the Armed Forces, Luke Pollard, visited the Bolton plant at Bridgewater Avenue on Tuesday, August 19.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cThe community here should be very proud of what happens these big warehouse-sized buildings because it not only creates good, well-paid jobs locally, what happens here keeps our country safe.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThat is something the people of Bolton should be very proud of.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are delivering on the strategic defence review by equipping our armed forces with state-of-the art equipment to help keep us safe.<\/p>\n

\u201cDoubling our deployable Sky Sabre capability will strengthen the UK\u2019s air defences, protect UK forces abroad, and deter our adversaries.<\/p>\n

\u201cThrough this investment we are supporting over 100 jobs across the UK, with more to come.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The expanding firm said the \u00a3118M contract for Land Ceptor systems would protect jobs at their siteUK Minister…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[279,748,393,4884,2465,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-368668","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-bolton","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-manchester","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115081319835513259","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}