Supporting Land Forces in the UK: Thales’ innovations supporting the British Army

Enabling a Battle-winning Edge

Building on our heritage, we are committed to nurturing a highly skilled workforce and supply chain through the development and delivery of UK sovereign products.

Leveraging Thales’ global expertise and portfolio, we help our customers to modernise their capabilities and deter adversaries of today and tomorrow.

From vehicle systems to complex weapons, Thales in the UK is a leading global supplier of vital equipment to keep our nation safe and ensure the lethality of our Armed Forces.

Land forces across the globe rely on Thales's secure optronics solutions to see without being seen and keep front-line soldiers in constant contact with the command chain and other units in the field. Our solutions deliver perception rather than vision. They go beyond high-quality imagery, creating value from raw data to provide vital decision support at every critical moment. As the age of collaborative combat dawns, Thales' connected optronics solutions are set to play a decisive role in gaining and maintaining tactical superiority on tomorrow's battlefields. Built around the concept of the Augmented Soldier, they draw on advanced digital technologies to empower modern war fighters in the most complex conflict situations while keeping humans at the centre of the decision-making process.

Drawing on our expertise in artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and connectivity, Thales' soldier optronics solutions rely on the latest digital technologies to deliver outstanding performance on every type of mission. And with our flexible support services and online service platforms, we guarantee that they will be available and ready for action whenever they're needed.

Thales is the largest European manufacturer of military communications systems, and our UK offering draws on our extensive local and international capability. Thales in the UK is unique in radio suppliers with a UK based hardware and waveform development centre. This enables us to develop and supply solutions to specialist high security radio users in the military and civil field and also means we can provide a highly flexible and reactive local presence.

Thales in the UK has over 40 years of experience in intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) on which we have built our unmanned aerial systems (UAS) systems and services. We are well versed in delivering UAS programmes and have over 100,000 hours of operational flying experience. UAS are playing an ever more important role in defence planning. They provide situational awareness to commanders, enabling better decision making, allowing timely reactions, and remove the man from the battlefield by putting the “pilot” on the ground.

Electronic warfare (EW) can detect, interpret, control or disrupt signals in the electromagnetic (EM) spectrum, typically radar, radio or infrared transmissions, helping to protect military assets from potential threats. In any deployment, controlling and mining the electromagnetic spectrum for information is a primary objective: both tactical and strategic decisions depend on it. But, as bandwidth becomes ever more congested, the technical challenges faced by detection equipment are immense.

Unprecedented growth in electromagnetic transmissions across the spectrum means traditional systems are struggling to detect threats. Compromises like enforcing radio and radar silence to mitigate on-board interference or relying on costly, laborious manual filtering are simply unacceptable. Thales in the UK is applying transformative expertise in advanced digital technology for the EW sector in order to eliminate the need for compromises and maximise the safety and security of its users.

Thales in the UK provides a unique offering of training packages for Land Forces. The Thales approach has delivered more than 300 armoured vehicle gunnery and driving simulator worldwide. Our innovative simulation approach provides land forces students with the ability to train and prepare to perform the full spectrum of military operations from offense, defence, stability and support manoeuvres.

In a digitised battlespace environment, we support the progress from ab-initio driving, to advanced tactical driving skills, delivering collective and comprehensive training for individual, teams and large-scale joint operations. Thales Live Training Solutions feature all necessary components to satisfy the most stringent training and mission preparation requirements for the modern battlefield.