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09 October 2023
by Richard Scott
The MM40 Block 3c Exocet operational evaluation firing was performed from the frigate
Alsace
on 20 September.
(Marine Nationale)
The French Navy has completed an operational evaluation firing of the new Block 3c iteration of MBDA’s MM40 Exocet surface-to-surface guided missile.
Undertaken from the Aquitaine-class multimission frigate Alsace in the Mediterranean in late September, the test was designed to prove the performance of the anti-ship missile, most notably the upgraded J-band active radar seeker introduced with the new Block 3c ‘front end’. MBDA and the Directorate General of Armaments (Direction générale de l’armement: DGA) supported the test, which was performed on the DGA Essais de Missiles range off the Île du Levant island.
The MM40 Block 3c sub-variant (‘c’ indicating coherent) introduces a Thales-built coherent active radar seeker as the centrepiece of a ‘digitised’ guidance and navigation package. The new seeker and associated algorithms afford significant improvements in both all-weather target selectivity and electronic counter-countermeasures performance.
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