MBDA Fulgur

Fulgur is a very short-range air defence missile developed by MBDA for the Italian Army. A development contract was signed at the Paris Air Show in June 2025, where the name was revealed. It is meant to replace the ageing FIM-92 Stinger in Italian service, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the spread of small drone threats pushed Italy to ask for a large quantity of systems. MBDA first showed a mock-up in 2024 at Farnborough as a supersonic fire-and-forget interceptor with an image-processing seeker, aimed at fighters, helicopters and small drones. It is planned as a man-portable weapon and as a vehicle-launched weapon on a Leonardo turret and on the Sky Warden counter-drone system, with a rocket engine from AvioAero and a seeker made by MBDA Italy at Fusaro. Introduction is targeted for early 2028.