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0 critical materials scored
Verified: no scored critical-mineral exposure. This company's dossier carries no `material_exposures` entries. That can mean its production is genuinely outside the critical-minerals set this platform scores (e.g. a precious-metals-only miner) — or simply that no exposure entries have been populated for it yet; no field on this dossier distinguishes the two, so treat "0" here as unpopulated or inapplicable, not as a reviewed-and-cleared verdict. We found no critical-mineral exposure in the sources we checked for this company; absence from our corpus is not evidence that the company has none.
> The exposure report this dossier powers is at > /intelligence/dossiers/mbda-deutschland/report.
MBDA Deutschland GmbH is the German arm of MBDA, the pan-European guided-missile group jointly owned by Airbus, BAE Systems, and Leonardo. Headquartered in Schrobenhausen, Bavaria (~1,200 employees; revenue €339.8m FY2023, €271.5m FY2024 per its Bundestag lobby-register balance-sheet filing), it builds and integrates missile systems including the Taurus KEPD 350 stand-off cruise missile, MILAN and Enforcer anti-tank missiles, and PARS 3 LR, and contributes to pan-European programs like Meteor. It operates through two wholly owned subsidiaries: TDW (warheads, fuzes, and penetrating effectors, based at Schrobenhausen) and Bayern-Chemie (solid-fuel rocket propulsion — ramjets, gas generators, dual-pulse motors — based at Aschau am Inn). A third site in Ulm handles guidance electronics and sensors.
permanent magnets are the standard actuator technology for the fin/control- surface servos that steer guided missiles; dysprosium is alloyed in to preserve magnet coercivity at the elevated temperatures inside a missile body. No substitute magnet chemistry matches NdFeB's power density in the compact actuator housings this class of weapon requires.
Bayern-Chemie's own product lines: tungsten-alloy penetrator effectors (TDW explicitly makes "penetrating effectors," and Germany does not use depleted uranium, leaving tungsten alloy as the standard dense penetrator material) and high-heat rocket-motor hardware. No direct primary-source confirmation of tungsten in the Taurus/MEPHISTO warhead specifically — flagged as an industry-standard inference, not a disclosed bill-of-materials line.
choice in high-reliability aerospace/defense guidance electronics (the Ulm site's product line) for their stability and low failure rate versus cheaper alternatives.
standard high-temperature material for rocket-motor nozzle/exhaust components, relevant to Bayern-Chemie's propulsion line at Aschau am Inn.
Generic but load-bearing: copper wiring and aluminium/chromium-alloy structural and motor-casing hardware are ordinary airframe inputs; tin (solder) and silicon (semiconductors) are standard consumables in the guidance-electronics build at Ulm. None of these carry the same single-point supply-chain risk as the rare earths or tungsten above.
missile fin/control-surface actuators; dysprosium coercivity role at elevated temperature is well-established NdFeB-magnet materials science, not sourced to this article specifically)](https://realloys.com/blog/magnets-in-defense-applications/)
depleted-uranium substitute for kinetic penetrators)](https://www.samaterials.com/tungsten-heavy-alloy/134-tungsten-penetrator.html)
(tantalum capacitors and solder as MIL-qualified standards in defense electronics)](https://www.mouser.com/pdfDocs/kemet_capacitor_selection_guide_defense_aerospace.pdf)
rocket-motor nozzle/exhaust hardware)](https://www.elmetniobium.com/niobium-products/rocket-nozzles/)
Leonardo 25%; group headquarters, Le Plessis-Robinson, France)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MBDA)
(Umsatzerlöse: €271.475m FY2024, €339.8m FY2023)](https://www.lobbyregister.bundestag.de/media/30/22/614821/MBDA-D-GmbH-2024.pdf)