在欧洲,常规军队显示出愈来愈大的威胁:不断增长的坦克数量,利用陶瓷混合成份的装甲领域里取得了重大的进展,依靠装甲保护的直升飞机作用的增大。为了提高对付这一威胁的系统反坦克能力,法国空间公司、英国不列颠空间公司和西德MBB公司三方进行了合作,1979年,在它们各自政府的指示下,创立了欧洲导弹动力集团(EMDG)。1988年5月底,法国、英国和西德政府签订了政府之间的协议,该协议关系到被称之为 In Europe, conventional forces have shown increasing threats: a growing number of tanks, significant progress in the use of ceramic-mixed armor, and increased armor-protected helicopters. In an effort to improve the system’s anti-tank capabilities to deal with this threat, Aeroflot, BRITISH and the West German MBB tripartite cooperation, in 1979, under the direction of their respective governments, created the European missile power group (EMDG) . By the end of May 1988, France, the United Kingdom and the West German government signed an agreement between the government, the agreement related to what is called