Britain awards missile maker MBDA contract worth 184 million stg

Britain awarded missile maker MBDA an 184 million pound ($239 million) contract on Tuesday to equip the country's new F-35 fighter jets with heat-seeking air-to-air weaponry. The Ministry of Defence said in a statement that the deal with MBDA, a company owned by Franco-German group Airbus, Britain's BAE Systems and Italy's Leonardo Finmeccanica, would sustain 400 jobs in Britain.