Air Force Readiness

Assuring air forces’ operational readiness and sustainability

Force readiness
Train & sustain
Defence

In today’s tense global context, Thales contributes to mission success through operational preparation and in-service support that sustain air forces’ readiness, sustainability and equipment performance at the highest level.

AT THE SERVICE OF ARMED FORCES, ANYTIME, ANYWHERE, TO ENSURE MISSION READINESS

Preparing crews through immersive training and simulation

Thales delivers cutting-edge rotary as well as fixed wing flight and mission training devices and services, from individual to collective training thanks to distributed simulation, ensuring air crews are fully prepared for any mission. Learning is reinforced through immersive technologies including Mixed Reality and LVC (live, virtual and constructive training).
Comprehensive Aircrafts and Systems Support & Services

Thales maximizes the availability of fleets and aeronautical systems through embedded support services on military bases, predictive maintenance, and efficient supplies management, ensuring mission readiness at all times and the resilience of the support chain. From design to end-of-life, our experts are involved throughout the entire lifecycle of our solutions, maintaining close proximity to customers to ensure optimal availability, monitoring, and ongoing support tailored to specific needs.

Empowering air forces for high-intensity operations

As conflicts grow in frequency, intensity, and duration, the training of air forces and the renewal of equipment capacity are key to maintaining operational superiority. Thales provides armed forces with the confidence that they can respond effectively to challenges and unforeseen events, maintaining crew competences and a very high level of availability and performance of mission systems, ultimately leading to successful outcomes.

For more than 80 years, Thales has been at the forefront of advanced training solutions. We provide high fidelity Flight & Mission Simulator Training Devices, spanning individual, collective, tactical, rear-crew training, and associated Services. Thales further enhances operational readiness with tailored systems and aircraft support solutions. With proven expertise in repair lines, AI integration and digital tools, we offer unmatched proficiency and strong presence at military bases near operational platforms.

PROVEN EXPERTISE FOR MISSION PREPARATION AND SUPPORT

Thales training systems for military aircraft meet complex mission needs in the most demanding environments. Leveraging our expertise in real mission and aircraft systems, we offer training systems and services, including fully equipped training centres. Our portfolio covers A400M, Voyager, Tornado, Rafale, Mirage 2000, Hawk, Eurofighter and more across jet fighters, transport and refuelling aircraft.

A400M Training center, Brize Norton © Thales

Military helicopters play a key role across sea, land and air operations. As a leading systems integrator, Thales helps air forces build tailored simulation ecosystems. We offer a complete range of military helicopter training solutions from individual pilot systems to turnkey services for tactical mission rehearsal and complex joint operations. Our flagship reference platforms include H145M, H225M, H135, Tiger, and NH90 among others.

H145M Full Flight Simulator, Helisim Training Center © Helisim

Thales provides Air Forces with bespoke support services tailored to their unique organisational needs, from autonomous fleet management to Performance-Based Logistics (PBL) contracts. Leveraging Thales digital platforms such as HeadLight® and SmartFleet, we offer AI-powered surveillance for optimised spares management, direct or remote technical assistance and predictive maintenance to maximise systems availability.

To address new challenges, Thales has developed new support capabilities that improve forces readiness through premium support offers. These ensure high operational availability, long-term support, with rapid response capabilities to unusual circumstances, effective deployment with a reduced logistical footprint, and increased resilience against various threats.

Thales supports air forces providing ab initio, operational conversion, continuation, upgrade and refresher training, through to mission rehearsal. Drawing upon Thales’ core training and simulation capabilities, our services offering encompasses the design, development and implementation of turnkey training centers and services.