Defence aerospace

France orders 21 more TALIOS optronic pods

06 May 2022

The French defence procurement agency (DGA) has placed a firm order with Thales for 21 additional TALIOS pods. The new target designation pods will equip Rafale aircraft currently in service with the French Air and Space Force and the French Navy.

The French defence procurement has officially notified Thales and CS GROUP to develop PARADE drone countermeasures system

29 Apr 2022

Thales and, CS GROUP are working with their partners in France and Europe鈥檚 defence industrial and technological base on are developing the PARADE programme capability to provide permanent deployable protection for critical infrastructure from drone threats. The programme follows an open competition contract was awarded after a European competitive tendering process launched by the DGA in 2021 to strengthen the drone countermeasures (counter-UAV) capabilities of the French armed forces.

Thales obtains type certification for Spy'Ranger 330 system

20 Apr 2022

The Spy'Ranger 330 in service with the French Army as part of the SMDR programme has obtained its first type certification by the French defence procurement agency's airworthiness authority, testifying to the system's proven performance in combat situations. Type certification guarantees the airworthiness of the SMDR and enables the Army to use its mini-UAS systems for instruction, training and operational deployments without obtaining specific flight approvals.

PAL Aerospace and Thales Sign Strategic Agreement to Co-Develop Next-Generation Mission System at DSA 2022

31 Mar 2022

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 鈥� March 30th, 2022 鈥� PAL Aerospace and Thales, on the occasion of the Defence Services Asia Exhibition & Conference, have signed a strategic agreement to co-develop the next generation of mission systems. As the result of this agreement, the next generation of mission system software will be backed by the decades of special mission excellence required to support the future of multi-mission maritime patrol solutions.

Thales demonstrates its anti-drone system, Horus Shield, to different defense organizations

21 Mar 2022

This exercise is part of the tests approved by the Spanish Army within the Force 2035/BRIEX 2035 initiative. Supervised by the JCISAT, different units of the Army, the DGAM and other defense agencies attended the demonstration.

Thales on board the Tiger attack helicopter

02 Mar 2022

The Organisation for Joint Armament Cooperation (OCCAR), on behalf of the Direction g茅n茅rale de l'armement (DGA) for France and the Direcci贸n General de Armamento y Material (DGAM) for Spain, has awarded Airbus Helicopters the development contract for the new Tiger attack helicopter standard. The Thales technologies on board the platform will provide French and Spanish forces with innovative, high-performance connected systems.

CARMENTA will push forward the EU technological excellence to achieve air superiority goal

24 Feb 2022

The future operational scenario is often characterized by unprecedented level of rapidly changing risks and uncertainty which in turn requires European detection and countermeasure capabilities, growing in their level of sophistication and variety of the response type, agility, and preparation to face different types of threats.

Thales on board France's 169 Gu茅pard helicopters

23 Dec 2021

Florence Parly, Minister for the Armed Forces, announced the start of the development phase of the HIL future joint light helicopter (Gu茅pard) programme on 22 December 2021.

Thales Ground Master family of radars celebrates a milestone - 100th deployment worldwide for protection of national airspace

08 Nov 2021

This September 2021, the Ground Master radar family celebrates its 100th deployment worldwide following a site acceptance test for a Ground Master 400 by the Royal Moroccan Air Force.

Thales unveils the Ground Observer 20 Multi-mission radar the ultimate in early UAV detection and ground surveillance

07 Oct 2021

Thales unveils a new ground based multi-mission radar for force protection - with unique simultaneous ground and low-level air surveillance, providing exceptional early UAV detection, in particular of micro-drones.