Commercial Wars

Why, do you think, the Brits are naming their next generation long range air to air missile, METEOR?
Does these have anything to do with that old paleontologist claim that a large meteor from outer space, crashed on earth and wiped out every dinosaur, including the mighty RAPTORS:P?

Few years back, Italians had named their new attack choppers: mangustas, which is an asian weasel that eats cobras:7?

greg