BAe Dynamics
| Subsidiary | |
| Industry | Defence, Spacecraft |
| Fate | Merged with Matra in 1996 |
| Successor | Matra BAe Dynamics |
| Founded | 1977 |
| Defunct | August 1996 |
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Area served
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UK |
| Products | Missiles, Satellites |
| Parent | British Aerospace |
British Aerospace Dynamics Limited (BADL or BAe Dynamics) was a division of British Aerospace.
British Aerospace was created in April 1977 by the merger of the British Aircraft Corporation, Hawker Siddeley Aviation, Hawker Siddeley Dynamics and Scottish Aviation.
There were two companies in the formation:
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.
British Aerospace was partially privatised on 4 February 1981. In 1989 the then fully privatised BAe instituted a company wide restructuring. BAe Dynamics was rationalised with the particular aim of reducing costs. Along with redundancies the main part of this was the closing of four of the company's facilities; Bracknell, Hatfield, Bolton and Weymouth.
In 1981 it was conducting important research into passive infra-red surveillance.
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;
In 1994 the BAe Dynamics subsidiary British Aerospace Space Systems was sold to Matra Marconi Space.
In the mid-1990s, development work for the Meteor missile took place.
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