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Thales Improves Eye of The Tiger
Thales has successfully secured an order from prime contractor Australian Aerospace to upgrade the TopOwl Helmet-Mounted Sight Display (HMSD) Display Modules fitted to the Australian Army’s fleet of Tiger Armed Reconnaissance Helicopters. A key component in the Army’s ARH, the TopOwl HMSD links the pilot directly to the helicopter’s armaments, night vision and navigation systems. [...]
Watchkeeper UAS Completes Major Flight Trials Milestone
Thales UK is pleased to announce that the WATCHKEEPER unmanned air system (UAS) successfully completed a key set of inaugural flights in June 2009, which will allow the system to progress to a series of ground system and flight trials in the UK. These will take place at Parc Aberporth in West Wales and will [...]
Smart-S Mk2 Radar for Canadian Frigates
OTTAWA: Thales announced today an agreement with Lockheed Martin for the delivery of 13 Smart-S Mk2 surveillance radars. These radars will be installed on the Canadian Patrol Frigates of the Department of National Defence as part of the Halifax Class Modernization Program. Delivery will begin in Summer 2010 and be complete in 2015. All radars [...]
World Bushmaster Makes International Debut
Thales’s World Bushmaster has made its international debut at DVD 2009 – one of the United Kingdom’s largest defence industry events. The World Bushmaster variant is designed as a response to export opportunities, as well as potential customers’ evolving requirements resulting from the Bushmaster’s success on operations. The main difference between the World Bushmaster and [...]
Dutch Boost for Bushmaster Exports
In a further boost for Bushmaster exports, the Netherlands Ministry of Defence has ordered 14 new vehicles. The contract will take the total of Bushmasters supplied to the Netherlands to 72. Production work on the new vehicles has already begun, with delivery to the customer to be completed later this year. In a demonstration of [...]
High Performance Mission Systems for UAE Maritime Patrol Aircraft
PARIS AIR SHOW: Thales and Provincial Aerospace Ltd announced their selection, following a challenging international competition, by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Air Force to upgrade two of its aircraft into Maritime Patrol Aircraft. In cooperation with Provincial Aerospace Ltd, prime contractor of the aircraft modifications, Thales will upgrade two UAE Air Force Bombardier Dash [...]
Thales Sonar Systems Play Critical Role In Anti-Submarine Exercise
London, UK: A number of Thales UK’s world-leading sonar systems have been playing a critical role in a major underwater exercise as part of the Royal Navy’s (RN’s) largest overseas deployment for a decade. As part of the ‘Taurus 09′ deployment, the task group has been taking part in an Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) exercise in [...]
Singapore Navy to Upgrade Mine Countermeasures Vessels
Following a call for international tender, the Defence Science and Technology Agency (DSTA) of Singapore awarded Thales with the Life Extension Programme (LEP) of its 4 Bedok class mine-countermeasure vessels. This significant contract highlights the relevance of both Thales’s naval technology portfolio and its comprehensive set of skills and capabilities to address key modernisation programs [...]
Medium Range Air Defense Radars for Finland and Estonia
ThalesRaytheonSystems has been selected to deliver Medium Range Air Surveillance Systems including 14 Ground Master 403 radar systems, 12 for Finland and two for Estonia, and a Long Range Air Identification and Surveillance Radar System Mid Life Upgrade for five Teresa 22XX radars for Finland, which were previously supplied by Thales. The order value for [...]
