Thales missile factory to supply 5,000 air defence missiles to Ukraine

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Thales missile factory to supply 5,000 air defence missiles to Ukraine

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BBC News NI economics and business editor

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The missiles are also used by Royal Navy helicopters

The Thales missile factory in Belfast is to supply 5,000 air defence missiles to Ukraine, the Prime Minister has announced.

The deal is worth up to £1.6bn and will involve recruiting 200 additional staff.

Thales is a French-owned company which one of Europe’s biggest arms manufacturers.

The order is for lightweight multirole missiles (LMMs) which Ukrainian forces are already using.

A £162m contract announced in September last year saw 650 LMMs supplied to Ukraine as an initial order to ramp up production, with the first deliveries in December.

The new order is much *******: it is worth an initial £1.16bn with the potential for around a further £500m of work to be added in collaboration with a Ukrainian industry partner.

The partner firm will manufacture launchers and command and control vehicles for the missiles in Ukraine.

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Thales is a French-owned company located in the Castlereagh area of Belfast

The *** Ministry of Defence said it is the largest contract ever received by Thales in Belfast.

The Defence Secretary John Healey said the deal would “help protect Ukraine against drone and missile attacks and help deter further Russian aggression following any end to the fighting”.

The contract has been placed by the MoD’s procurement arm Defence Equipment & Support on behalf of the Ukrainian Government.

It will be funded by a loan underwritten by United Kingdom Export Finance (UKEF) after a deal signed last year to allow Ukraine to draw on £3.5bn worth of support from UKEF to spend with *** industry.

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