British Aerospace Dynamics Limited (BADL or BAe Dynamics) was a division of
British Aerospace
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History
British Aerospace was created in April 1977 by the merger of the
British Aircraft Corporation
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Scottish Aviation
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History
The company was founded in 1935. Originally a flying school operator, the company took on maintenance work in 1938.
During the Second World War, Scott ...
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Formation
There were two companies in the formation:
* BAC (Guided Weapons)
* Hawker Siddeley Dynamics
The missile, weapon systems and space businesses of these companies were merged into British Aerospace Dynamics Limited (BADL), a wholly owned subsidiary of BAe.
In December 1979, Euromissile Dynamics Group was formed with
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of
Toulouse, France
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On 1 January 1992, British Aerospace Defence Ltd began trading as a wholly owned subsidiary of BAe. Previously separate defence companies now operated as divisions of that subsidiary:
* British Aerospace (Dynamics) Ltd
* British Aerospace (Military Aircraft) Ltd,
* Royal Ordnance plc
* British Aerospace Systems and Services Division (BAe SSD)
In 1994, the BAe Dynamics subsidiary British Aerospace Space Systems was sold to Matra Marconi Space.
Merger with Matra
In 1996, BAe Dynamics' guided weapons division was merged with a division of Matra Defense to form the then largest European missile manufacturer,
Matra BAe Dynamics
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. This group now forms part of
MBDA
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* Rapier (missile) SAM, designed earlier by BAC (Guided Weapons), and developed with Marconi Space and Defence Systems (the Blindfire radar), and was superior to the comparative
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