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Eurosam GIE is a European manufacturer of anti-air missiles. Eurosam was established in June 1989 for the development of the Famille de missiles Sol-Air Futurs (Future Surface-to-Air Family of missiles or FSAF). Eurosam was initially a joint venture between Aérospatiale, Alenia and Thomson-CSF. Now Aérospatiale is a part of MBDA (more precisely of the French branch of MBDA), and Missile and Missile Systems activities of Alenia are now the Italian branch of MBDA. Thomson CSF is now the Thales Group. Thus Eurosam is owned by MBDA France and MBDA Italy (66% share split between both) as well as Th
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- Company.name
- Eurosam GIE
- Company.logo
- Eurosam logo.jpg
- Company.type
- Private joint venture
- Company.foundation
- June 1989
- Company.location_city
- Paris
- Company.location_country
- France
- Company.industry
- Aerospace
- Company.products
- Naval and air-defence missiles
- Company.owner
- MBDA France (33.3%)MBDA Italy (33.3%)Thales Group (33.3%)
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Innovative Air Defense | EUROSAM
EUROSAM is the leading French-Italian JV in Europe that designs, produces and sells, long range ground and naval based air defense systems. EUROSAM was created by MBDA and THALES, European leaders in missiles, systems and radars, endowing it with major expertise in terms of operational requirements for air defense.
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- Official name
- EUROSAM
- Official website
- www.eurosam.com
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- inception
- 1989-06-00
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- Aster missiles
- Ground-launched systems
- Naval systems
- Anti-air application
- "Building block" architecture
- Applications
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Eurosam GIE is a European manufacturer of anti-air missiles. Eurosam was established in June 1989 for the development of the Famille de missiles Sol-Air Futurs (Future Surface-to-Air Family of missiles or FSAF). Eurosam was initially a joint venture between Aérospatiale, Alenia and Thomson-CSF. Now Aérospatiale is a part of MBDA (more precisely of the French branch of MBDA), and Missile and Missile Systems activities of Alenia are now the Italian branch of MBDA. Thomson CSF is now the Thales Group. Thus Eurosam is owned by MBDA France and MBDA Italy (66% share split between both) as well as Thales Group (33%).
==Aster missiles== As originally envisaged under the contract for Phase 1 (signed in May 1990) the FSAF involved the use of the Aster 15 and Aster 30 missiles in the following applications: SAAM (Système Anti-Air Missile) naval autodefence SAAM-FR — using the Aster 15 on the SAAM-IT — using the Aster 15 on the SAMP/T (Sol-Air Moyenne Portée Terrestre) or Ground-to-Air Medium Range Missile System Using Aster 30 missiles in batteries and Arabel radar