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LE BOURGET, France — Astrium Space Transportation will deliver a proposal to the French Defense Ministry in the coming weeks to conduct a demonstration of a missile defense system that would destroy a target vehicle in space, the company’s chief executive said June 21.

Briefing reporters here during the Paris air show, Alain Charmeau said the unsolicited proposal would outline a system based on Astrium’s experience in building France’s ballistic missiles as well as the two Spirale missile warning demonstration satellites, which are in orbit.

Charmeau said that including ground tests and the launch of both the exoatmospheric kill vehicle and its target, the demonstration is likely to cost between 200 million euros and 300 million euros ($280 million to $420 million).

Astrium’s proposal is being sent to the French arms-procurement agency, DGA.