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Brazil Selects MBDA Sea Ceptor for Next Generation Corvettes

Friday, December 5th, 2014

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The Brazilian Navy selected the MBDA Sea Ceptor anti-air missile system to provide local area air defense in the next generation Tamandaré-class corvettes, the company said on Nov. 28. Sea Ceptor provides all-weather, night and day, 360-degree local area air defense coverage against multiple simultaneous targets. This includes anti-ship missiles, helicopters, and combat jets. It can combat surface targets as well as air threats. Sea Ceptor also offsets potential saturating attacks with an advanced active radar seeker, MBDA said in…

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