Thales’s early threat detection systems are essential for enhancing the protection of military vehicles and their crews across a variety of conflict scenarios, including urban, asymmetrical, and high-intensity environments. Utilizing advanced vehicle-mounted sensors, these systems provide critical early warning and precise location of potential threats, allowing armed forces to initiate countermeasures either manually or automatically. The comprehensive vehicle optronics portfolio includes capabilities such as acoustic shot detection, laser warning systems, and grenade launch detection, ensuring robust protection for a wide range of military vehicle platforms. By integrating these advanced threat detection solutions, Thales empowers modern armed forces to improve operational effectiveness and survivability on the battlefield.
Thales's HF Wideband Tactical Radios provide secure and reliable communication capabilities for military operations, ensuring effective connectivity in challenging environments. Designed to meet the demands of modern warfare, these radios offer enhanced data throughput and operational flexibility, allowing armed forces to maintain communication across extensive distances. With advanced features such as multiple waveform support and robust encryption, the HF Wideband Tactical Radios facilitate secure voice and data transmission, enabling seamless coordination among units in both land and maritime operations. Their lightweight design and ease of integration make them ideal for various tactical scenarios, empowering military personnel to respond swiftly and effectively to evolving threats on the battlefield.
Thales's Ground Observer 20 MM (GO20 MM) is a cutting-edge ground surveillance radar system designed to enhance situational awareness on the battlefield by providing early detection of a wide range of threats. In an era where unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) pose significant challenges to traditional defense systems, the GO20 MM offers a comprehensive solution with its permanent 360° coverage, allowing for real-time monitoring of threats from all directions. This advanced radar system is capable of effectively detecting both ground and aerial targets, ensuring that armed forces can implement timely countermeasures and maintain operational effectiveness. By integrating this technology, Thales empowers military personnel to stay ahead of evolving threats and enhance their overall protection in complex combat environments.
Thales's Joint Fire Support System is designed to enhance the effectiveness of land forces in high-intensity conflicts, where artillery plays a critical role in modern warfare. This comprehensive solution, rooted in the French ATLAS program, facilitates the digitization of field artillery and supports a full spectrum of military operations, from headquarters to the combat area. By integrating advanced capabilities such as intelligence gathering, observation, secure communications, target acquisition, command and maneuvering, counter-fire operations, and logistics, Thales ensures that armed forces can execute fire support missions with precision and efficiency. The system promotes digital transformation and collaborative combat, empowering armies worldwide to respond effectively to emerging threats and maintain operational superiority on the battlefield.
Thales's Counter RCIED Electronic Protection system is designed to combat the growing threat posed by Radio Controlled Improvised Explosive Devices (RCIEDs), which have become prevalent in various conflict zones due to their cost-effectiveness against advanced weaponry. This system leverages Thales's extensive experience in Communications Electronic Counter Measures (ECM) to provide robust solutions for detecting and inhibiting RCIEDs, thereby enhancing the safety of military personnel and operations. By integrating advanced electronic defense equipment, Thales enables armed forces to effectively mitigate the risks associated with RCIED proliferation, ensuring operational effectiveness and reducing casualties in complex battlefield environments.
Thales's targeting and surveillance systems are essential components of its vehicle optronics portfolio, providing a comprehensive array of capabilities tailored for various military vehicle platforms. Collaborating closely with platform manufacturers and armed forces, Thales develops advanced, fully integrated systems that deliver high performance and features specifically designed to match each vehicle's role and armament. These solutions incorporate a wide range of sensors, including thermal imagers, day cameras, and laser options, making them effective in conventional, asymmetrical, and high-intensity conflicts across both urban and open battle environments. Thales’s combat-proven targeting and surveillance systems enhance users' planning, maneuverability, lethality, surveillance, and protection capabilities, ensuring operational effectiveness in diverse combat scenarios.
Thales’s Driver Vision Enhancement (DVE) and Local Situational Awareness (LSA) systems are designed to protect military vehicles and their crews by providing comprehensive visibility of the battlefield. These advanced systems enable drivers and commanders to monitor their surroundings effectively, enhancing safety and facilitating maneuverability in both urban and open combat environments. Utilizing a multi-sensor array, DVE and LSA systems incorporate remotely operated cameras strategically positioned on the front, sides, and rear of military land platforms, delivering a continuous 360-degree view through screens inside the vehicle. This capability allows crew members to engage threats more easily and effectively, ensuring operational success in diverse and dynamic scenarios.
Thales’s sensing modules are integral components of the vehicle optronics product line, providing advanced capabilities essential for modern military operations. These high-tech sensors are designed for integration into turrets, vehicle-mounted gimbals, remote weapon stations (RWS), and sighting systems across various land platforms utilized by armed forces worldwide. The comprehensive range of products includes sensor packs, cooled and uncooled thermal imagers, laser rangefinders, and laser target designators, all engineered to enhance situational awareness and targeting precision. In the face of complex combat environments—from asymmetrical insurgency to high-intensity conflict—Thales’s sensing modules empower land forces with the tools needed to detect and engage threats effectively, ensuring operational success in diverse scenarios.
Thales’s Services & Support for vehicle optronics are designed to ensure that on-board systems and equipment are always ready for action, which is crucial for military vehicle commanders and crews. Recognizing the importance of equipment availability, Thales provides comprehensive support options that maintain the performance of essential optronics devices, including sights and sensors. This service offering ensures that all components, from targeting and surveillance systems to Driver Vision Enhancement (DVE) and Local Situational Awareness (LSA) systems, are kept in optimal condition. By prioritizing the readiness of state-of-the-art Thales products, this support framework enhances the safety of crews and vehicles, enabling them to successfully complete their missions in any operational environment.
Thales's Micro TMA is a high-rate wideband datalink that serves as a resilient and compact software-defined radio device, perfectly suited for the latest robotics and video streaming applications in unmanned aerial, ground, and surface vehicles (UxVs). This advanced system provides a robust link for command and control as well as data streaming, including visible and infrared video and electronic surveillance. For both fixed and rotary-wing aircraft, the Micro TMA enhances Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) and Close Air Support (CAS) missions by delivering critical video streaming capabilities that support accurate situational awareness. Additionally, it facilitates Manned-Unmanned Teaming (MUM-T), allowing seamless integration between manned and unmanned platforms to ensure information superiority across various operational theaters.
Thales's Nexium Defence Cloud is designed to meet the evolving needs of military operations in an increasingly data-driven landscape, where the proliferation of sensors and effectors across land, air, naval, space, and cyber domains demands effective data management. This innovative solution allows armed forces to leverage vast amounts of distributed data, facilitating faster decision-making and more effective actions in national deployments and coalition operations. By utilizing cloud technologies, Nexium Defence Cloud creates a centralized pool of multi-source data that can be accessed through remote, shared, and scalable storage and computation capabilities. Thales adapts advanced civil cloud technologies for military applications, enabling armed forces to enhance their communications and operational effectiveness in complex environments.
Thales's Tactical Networks provide robust and deployable IT and communication capabilities essential for armed forces to efficiently coordinate and conduct operations from command posts in the face of diverse threats such as terrorism, natural disasters, and border tensions. Designed for rapid deployment and redeployment, these tactical solutions ensure that military personnel can establish reliable communications wherever and whenever needed. In response to evolving operational environments, Tactical Networks facilitate enhanced connectivity through advanced constellations and the integration of multiple intelligence flows, command and control functions, and logistics support. They address critical vulnerabilities such as interception and jamming of communications, enabling armed forces to swiftly share vital information and make informed decisions across all levels of the command chain, thereby enhancing operational effectiveness in dynamic scenarios.
Thales's CBRNe Suite Solutions provide a comprehensive approach to detecting, analyzing, managing, and recovering from Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosive threats in an increasingly volatile world. Recognizing the severe consequences that CBRNe materials can have on public health, the environment, and infrastructure—whether from hostile actions or industrial accidents—Thales offers advanced systems designed to safeguard both armed and civil security forces. As a global leader in mission-critical solutions for defense and security, Thales acts as the architect and systems integrator for CBRNe challenges, ensuring that organizations are equipped with the necessary tools to effectively respond to and mitigate these complex threats. This holistic approach enhances situational awareness and operational readiness, ultimately protecting people and assets from potential harm.
Thales's Military & Government Sites solutions are specifically designed to meet the stringent security requirements of defense organizations, leveraging decades of experience in the field. Understanding the unique challenges faced by military operations, Thales provides tailored systems that ensure optimal performance and reliability. Beyond the technology itself, Thales offers personalized support throughout all project phases, from initial design to the ongoing management of security operations post-installation. Their dedicated support and maintenance services are available 24/7, ensuring that customers receive assistance whenever needed. This commitment to excellence and deep expertise in defense issues positions Thales as a trusted partner for military and government clients seeking effective security solutions.
