DSEI 2025: MBDA offers Surface-Launched ASRAAM
MBDA's SL ASRAAM can be mounted on a variety of platforms. (MBDA)
MBDA unveiled its Surface-Launched Advanced Short-Range Air-to-Air Missile (SL ASRAAM) air-defence system at the Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) 2025 exhibition held in London from 9 to 12 September. The low-cost system is designed to be used for point defence or as part of a wider integrated air and missile defence network to protect deployed forces or critical national infrastructure against multiple targets, including rotary- and fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles and missiles.
The 13-tonne, 8 m-long system is platform-agnostic, with MBDA publishing an image of it with static, tracked, and wheeled launchers, including an unmanned ground vehicle. An MBDA spokesperson for the fully passive system said its target designator can be fitted to the roof of its launch platform and that it requires minimal logistics provided by a single truck.
The ASRAAM seeker gives it a fire-and-forget capability and the use of the missile creates a common stockpile across all front-line commands, according to MBDA.
For information on MBDA's earlier Raven air-defence system, please seeUkraine conflict: UK supplies Raven air-defence system to Kyiv .
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