Sign in

Private company

CTA International

Logo: cta-international.com4

Joint-venture European armaments company

CTA International is an equal-shares joint venture company between defence companies Nexter and BAE Systems. CTAI is based in Bourges, France, and has been established to develop and manufacture case telescoped weapons and ammunition. The company name is an acronym for Case Telescoped Ammunition.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

  • Industryweapons industry1
  • HeadquartersVersailles, France1
  • Websitewww.cta-international.com
  • Legal formjoint venture1
  • LEI969500WYC65MJRC30W793
  • StatusActive3
  • LEI statusLapsed (not renewed)3
  • Registered address13 ROUTE DE LA MINIERE, 78000 Versailles, France3
  • Registered withNational Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies, 3986645993

See how the biggest companies compare on our leaderboards

CTA International is an equal-shares joint venture company between defence companies Nexter and BAE Systems. CTAI is based in Bourges, France, and has been established to develop and manufacture case telescoped weapons and ammunition. The company name is an acronym for Case Telescoped Ammunition. Its main product is the 40CTAS for armoured fighting vehicles such as armoured reconnaissance vehicles and infantry fighting vehicles.2

The story

1994 - CTAI was created by (at that time) GIAT and Royal Ordnance, with initial activities around a 45mm solution

1997 - the 40mm calibre solution is selected

1999 - The UK MoD Operational Analysis (OA) study output is shared with US DoD; the solution is integrated into Bradley Fighting Vehicle and the US-UK Tracer prototype vehicle

2002 - Further UK MoD & DGA OA studies; risk reduction contract awarded

2004 - UK MoD & DGA contract to integrate 40CT into the MTIP and unmanned Toutatis turrets

March 2008 - UK MoD select CT40 as a mandated item for Warrior IFV and FRES-Scout (now Ajax) programmes

April 2017: France orders the first tranche of the EBRC Jaguar

26 November 2021: British MoD receives the 515 and last 40CT cannon ordered.

From Wikipedia’s article on CTA International, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.5

Subsidiaries and ownership

Owners

From Wikidata.1

Timeline

  1. Oct 18, 1994Founded CTA International is founded3

Sources

The numbers on this page point here. Each one links to the record it came from.

  1. 1
  2. 2
  3. 3
  4. 4
    Company websiteCTA International logo
  5. 5