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BAL-E, SS-N-25 'Switchblade'
The mobile coastal missile system BAL-E equipped with Kh-35 Uran (SS-N-25 'Switchblade', 3M-24) anti-ship missiles is intended for:
- maintaining control over strait zones and marginal waters
- protecting naval bases and other coastal military installations
- protecting coastal areas exposed to risk of seaborne assault
- gaining dominance on the sea within missiles' kill zone.

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Michele Di Nunzio, anti-ship missile expert at MBDA, introduces the Marte Coastal Defence System during DIMDEX 2014.

At the DIMDEX exhibition in Doha, Qatar (25-27 March 2014), MBDA is presenting for the first time ever a new coastal defence system based on the Marte missile family.
This system, the Marte Coastal Defence System (MCDS), guarantees maritime coastal traffic surveillance and interdiction to hostile ships in territorial waters.