Acoustic detection for submarine

A range of high performance integrated sonar suites that ensures your acoustic advantage

Submarine
Defence
Naval

Submarines personify human ingenuity, using stealth for strategic advantage. Thales ensures navies can see their surroundings with advanced sonar that drives operational superiority and mission tempo.

OUR STRENGTHS IN ACOUSTIC DETECTION FOR SUBMARINES

All-round 360° safety

Thales offers a large range of high-performance submarine acoustic arrays, including stern, flank, bow and towed arrays – delivering 360° coverage across a wide frequency spectrum. Safety can be further enhanced by fitting high-frequency Navigation and Mine & Obstacle Avoidance Sonar.
Scalable, efficient upgrades

Our submarine acoustic systems are built on open architecture that enables the easy and progressive addition of sonar sensors, insertion of third-party algorithms and seamless integration into combat systems. This helps navies manage life cycle costs and retain technological superiority.
S-Cube: integrated sonar suite

Thales helps navies adapt to evolving challenges with its integrated sonar suite, S-Cube. Its cutting-edge passive sonars help ensure permanent platform safety, by providing long-range detection, accurate localization and high-level classification – even in complex littoral waters.

Proven systems for operational superiority

Thales’s submarine sonar systems offer a range of arrays that deliver high active and passive performance. Solutions are modular and scalable, and adaptable to navies exact needs. Data can be processed in real time, with easy combat management system integration. The result is superior detection, actionable information, and well-informed decisions.

Submarines are facing new challenges, from denser shipping to advanced anti-submarine warfare. Navies are responding, upgrading and scaling their sonar systems. Thales helps them do this cost effectively, with a fully tailored offering. And, with advanced sensors, real-time processing, and intuitive interfaces, navies can build technological superiority, reduce workloads and enhance situational awareness.

OUR CAPABILITIES IN ACOUSTIC DETECTION FOR SUBMARINES

Thales systems deliver enhanced detection by using multi-mode, high-resolution digital sonar arrays covering a wide frequency range. They are suited to any environment, both littoral and deep water. These, combined with artificial-intelligence-driven detection and classification help ensure operational superiority.

Thales tailors sonar solutions for all submarine operators, from novices to experts. We equip platforms from littoral to oceanic, with expertise in new builds and refits. We recommend the best purchase options, enabling faster deployment for new navies, optimizing sonar setup, and facilitating system updates for existing submarines.

Thales’s S-Cube is an integrated system providing instant access to all sensor data. It enables rapid post-processing over long periods, enhancing analysis, classification, and localization. Easily integrated into any Combat Management System, it refines the tactical picture, delivering quick, actionable information for better decisions and improved operational efficiency.

S-Cube can fuse large amounts of data, automate tasks like classification, and automatically switch sonars between modes. It also includes a next-generation Human Computer Interface, developed with and for submariners, that provides integrated aids and alerts. These give your operators better situational awareness, free them to focus on more important tasks, and reduce fatigue and training requirements.

HIGHLIGHT IN ACOUSTIC DETECTION FOR SUBMARINES

Thales delivers advanced sonar suite for Orka-Class submarines in Netherlands

Thales will equip future Orka-class submarines with a cutting-edge sonar suite, enhancing underwater threat detection and supporting national industry within the RNSC programme.