Dual-Mode Brimstone targeted at fast boat threat Tuesday, 22 February, 2011 European missile house MBDA (Hall 7 Stand A10) has unveiled plans for its Dual-Mode Brimstone (DMB) missile to take on an anti-surface warfare role to counter swarming fast inshore attack craft (FIAC) threats. An enhanced derivative of MBDA’s Brimstone anti-armour missile, DMB was conceived to meet a UK urgent operational requirement (UOR) for a high-precision close air support weapon to be used against both static and moving ground targets. MBDA met this requirement by developing a dual-mode seeker, combining millimetric wave (mmW) radar and semiactive laser (SAL) techniques, with...