title: BAe Dynamics
text: # 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
  