Air defence missiles
Aster
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- Last figure
- Stale · Dec 2024
This is what the ledger can account for. Where no figure has been published for a producing country, only the plants and producers a source has named are counted, so the real total is higher.
: ≥ 300 missiles per year by Dec 2028
Production by scope
Each country the item is made in, broken down into the producers and plants a source has named. A plant’s figure is part of its country’s, never added to it.
| Scope | Producer | Output / mo | Capacity / mo | Updated | Evidence and chart |
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 France | — | — | Stale · Dec 2024 | ||
| MBDA | MBDA | — | — | Stale · Dec 2024 |
History
Every published figure for one line. The band is the range a source gave; hollow points are estimates; dashed is a target or forecast; grey points were corrected later.
The figures in this chart
| Date | Value | Range | Basis |
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| 31 Dec 2025 | 7.5 | 6.7–8.3 | Forecast |
Promises vs delivery
Each announced target or forecast, next to what was reported once its date arrived.
Capacity target · France · MBDA
≥ 300 missiles per year by Dec 2028
PendingNo comparable figure published yet
Output forecast · France · MBDA
80–100 missiles per year by Dec 2025
UnverifiedNo comparable figure published yet
Figures and evidence
Every published figure that stands, with the sentence each one rests on. A figure is never edited: a correction is a new figure, and the old one is kept below.
France 2
figures
MBDA
≥ 300 missiles per year
2028
Capacity target Official high“Plus de”: a lower bound. Production capacity targeted for 2028, stated by Emmanuel Chiva, head of the DGA, before the Assemblée nationale defence committee.
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300 missiles a year in 2028.
A2 Assemblée nationale Commission de la défense nationale et des forces armées, Compte rendu n° 28 : Audition, ouverte à la presse, de M. Emmanuel Chiva, délégué général pour l’armement, sur les enjeux de l’économie de guerre (mercredi 4 décembre 2024) p. 7 4 Dec 2024Quote checked against the document
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80–100 missiles per year
2025
Output forecast Official high“Normalement” (all being well); stated by Emmanuel Chiva, head of the DGA, before the Assemblée nationale defence committee.
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In fact we will normally have between 80 and 100
A2 Assemblée nationale Commission de la défense nationale et des forces armées, Compte rendu n° 28 : Audition, ouverte à la presse, de M. Emmanuel Chiva, délégué général pour l’armement, sur les enjeux de l’économie de guerre (mercredi 4 décembre 2024) p. 6 4 Dec 2024Quote checked against the document
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Across the item
218 missiles total
14 Mar 2025
Order ordered by France, Italy, United Kingdom Official highJoint order by France, Italy and the United Kingdom, signed through OCCAr; announced by the DGA.
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France, Italy and the United Kingdom confirm the order of 218 additional Aster missiles and the acceleration of the delivery of the missiles already ordered, as part of a joint acquisition.
B2 Direction générale de l'armement (DGA), ministère des Armées La France, l'Italie et le Royaume-Uni complètent leurs stocks de missiles de défense aérienne 14 Mar 2025Quote checked against the document
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≤ 1,000 missiles total
Dec 2022–Feb 2025
Order ordered by Italy, United Kingdom, France Official high“Nearly”, recorded as an upper bound; the December 2022 France–Italy order and its February 2025 supplement together, for Italy, the United Kingdom and France.
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Corrected figures (1)
80–100 missiles total
2025
Output forecast Official high Corrected by a later figureWhat changed: value corrected: 80–100 missiles total → 80–100 missiles per year
“Normalement” (all being well); stated by Emmanuel Chiva, head of the DGA, before the Assemblée nationale defence committee.
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In fact we will normally have between 80 and 100
A2 Assemblée nationale Commission de la défense nationale et des forces armées, Compte rendu n° 28 : Audition, ouverte à la presse, de M. Emmanuel Chiva, délégué général pour l’armement, sur les enjeux de l’économie de guerre (mercredi 4 décembre 2024) p. 6 4 Dec 2024Quote checked against the document
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Sources
Every document behind the figures on this page.
- B Direction générale de l'armement (DGA), ministère des Armées La France, l'Italie et le Royaume-Uni complètent leurs stocks de missiles de défense aérienne 14 Mar 2025
B2 means a usually reliable source making a statement that is probably true.