TDW
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| Company type | Subsidiary |
|---|---|
| Industry | Defence |
| Founded | 1994 |
| Headquarters | , |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Ulrich Störchle (Managing Director)[1] |
| Products | Warheads, Fuzes, Distance Sensors |
Number of employees | 150[2] |
| Parent | MBDA Deutschland GmbH (formerly LFK GmbH) |
| Website | tdw-warhead-systems |
TDW (Gesellschaft für verteidigungstechnische Wirksysteme mbH) is a European company that develops and manufactures warheads for guided weapons.[3] The company was founded in 1994 and has 150 employees based in Schrobenhausen, Germany. TDW is a 100% subsidiary of MBDA Deutschland GmbH[4] and part of the European guided weapon group MBDA.
The history of what is now TDW began in the 1960s at the site in Schrobenhausen where the company has been located ever since. The business started as part of Bölkow, later Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm (MBB) before it became DASA. TDW as a separate legal entity was founded 1994 as a spin-off of DASA, which continued to control the business as subsidiary. All missile activities of DASA and Dornier GmbH 1995 were consolidated into LFK-Lenkflugkörpersysteme GmbH which owned 100% of TDW. Together with LFK, TDW has been consolidated into EADS (now Airbus) which has sold LFK GmbH and its subsidiary TDW, to the European missile group MBDA in 2006.[5] LFK GmbH has changed its company name to MBDA Deutschland GmbH in 2012.