BAe Dynamics
# BAe Dynamics

British Aerospace Dynamics Limited (BADL or BAe Dynamics) was a division of British Aerospace.

## History

British Aerospace was created in April 1977 by the merger of the British Aircraft Corporation, Hawker Siddeley Aviation, Hawker Siddeley Dynamics and Scottish Aviation.

### 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 Aérospatiale of Toulouse, France and MBB of Ottobrunn.

### Subsidiary company

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. This group now forms part of MBDA.

## Products

### Missiles

* ALARM (missile), built with Marconi Space and Defence Systems
* 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 Roland
* Sea Dart (missile), designed earlier by Hawker Siddeley Dynamics
* Sea Eagle (missile) ASM
* Sea Skua ASM
* Sea Wolf (missile) SAM
* Skyflash AAM
* Trigat

### Satellites

* Giotto (spacecraft), approached Halley's Comet in March 1986 (made at Filton)
* Orbital Test Satellite
* Skynet (satellite), built with MSDS
