Australian Guided Weapons and Explosive Ordnance Manufacturing Capability

For more than 20 years Thales Australia has been a trusted industry partner of the US Government, and the local Prime of choice for both US and European GWEO Original Equipment manufacturers.

Thales supplies GWEO solutions to some of the world’s largest guided weapons manufacturers, in Australia and internationally. These include Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Boeing, BAE, Kongsberg and Rafael.

Thales is the only company in Australia with the demonstrated ability to design, manufacture and certify military relevant solid rocket motors, rocket motor cases, and exhaust nozzles. This has been successfully demonstrated through the Nulka active missile decoy system to deliver programs including the vital ARMTD program with DST Group and LRASM-SL boost program with Lockheed Martin. 

Thales can manufacture and supply a wide range of warheads. Thales has demonstrated Rapid Manufacture ability to produce BLU-126 and BLU-111 warheads to meet urgent operational requirements for BLU-12 Paveway II and BLU- 38 JDAM. The manufacturing capability was originally established to produce insensitive munition warheads for the Kongsberg Penguin anti-ship missile, which resulted in exports to 6 allied navies.

The facilities, R&D and process knowledge is currently used to deliver RAAF systems for Super Hornet and JSF and is being applied to programs such as advanced warhead solutions and high-speed weapons warhead development.