Greece ordre Mica and Scalp

Greece signed a contract with company MBDA France for the purchase of
102 air-to-air missiles Mica and of 35 air-to-ground missiles Scalp,
for an amount of some 220 million euros, the ministry of Defense announced. The order envisages the
delivery of the Mica as from February 2006, and that of the Scalp as
from October 2007, specified the Greek ministry in an official
statement. The contract, signed on December 18, grants to the Greek
part of the compensations corresponding to 115% of the value of the
order, of which industrial compensations in the form of subcontracting
by a series of Greek companies to height of 30 million euros,
adds the official statement. MBDA gathers Matra BAe Dynmacis,
ADS-aerospatiale Matra Missiles and Alenia Marconi systems.