European post-Meteor BVR missile efforts: France Comet and UK FASE

The article describes emerging European next-generation beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile programs (France/MBDA 'Comet' and the UK's 'FASE') and a new Franco-British study to define a Meteor successor. The novelty is the apparent surfacing of Comet as a higher-range/higher-speed step beyond MICA and the formalized roadmap work for a post-Meteor weapon architecture/kill chain aimed at countering PL-15-class threats.