Coastal protection

We deliver an integrated approach to deter and engage all maritime threats in littoral areas.

Defence
Naval
Coastal protection

With land, air and sea based assets working together, Thales solutions deliver intelligence and effect to maintain the security of littoral waters.

Our strengths for coastal protection

High performance sensors

At a time when naval combat is evolving rapidly, our cybersecure sensors provide real-time intelligence, automated threat tracking, and AI-enhanced situational awareness.
Collaborative surveillance

For broad surveillance, we can integrate various sensors and propose a multi-station network, linking several coastal monitoring sites through voice and data communications. This ensures uninterrupted coverage across extensive coastlines and supports a unified, nationwide defense strategy.
Fast engagement

Threats can be quickly engaged with RapidFire and Lightweight Multirole Missile (LMM). Naval RAPIDFire brings very high efficiency thanks to the integrated firing control suite and a anti-aerial air burst ammunition.

Ensuring the coastal surveillance mission

Coastal surveillance is a complex mission facing growing challenges from illegal activities, attacks on critical infrastructures, in harsh maritime conditions. Thales provides real-time intelligence, long-range detection, and seamless sensor integration to ensure early threat identification, effective response, and threat neutralisation—securing EEZs and protecting strategic interests.

Thales delivers turnkey coastal surveillance solutions integrating radars, sonars, EO cameras, AIS, IMSI catchers, UAV/satellite imagery & more into a unified maritime picture. It ensures real-time monitoring of maritime activities, enhances sovereignty protection, and meets today’s challenges with long-range, all-weather detection and advanced data fusion. Scalable from one site to full networks.

Our capabilities for coastal protection

With a combination of land-based and ship-based sensors like CoastWatcher Radar, NS50 Radar and EO/IR sensors, threats can be quickly detected and engaged. Complementary air-based Electronic warfare systems and surveillance radar on-board manned or unmanned platforms provide superior situational awareness.

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Thales' Naval DRAKON solutions deliver resilient and secure connectivity through SatCom links on UxV, air platforms, and surface vessels. TopLink SANDY, our situational awareness display, seamlessly integrates Tactical Data Links on Offshore Patrol Vessels with Thales V/UHF radios, ensuring voice and data communications for an end-to-end coastal protection.

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To counter new and evolving threats in littoral environments, collaborative surveillance is key not only to monitor with coastal assets but also to predict future ship positions several hours ahead in time. Platforms equipped with Tacticos Maritime Security Operation (MSO) can now observe and predict threats 4 hours ahead.

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Maritime Security Operations (MSO) are daily business for many navies. The TACTICOS Combat Management System has special features supporting the automatic User Defined Operational Picture by continuously monitoring the situation around the ship using many available sources. It can alert the operator in case anomalies are detected based on user defined criteria and Artificial Intelligence. All information is recorded for a long period of time and available for replay and evidence gathering. These special support capabilities change traditional situation awareness into new forms of situation understanding significantly reducing operator workload.

To defend critical infrastructures and naval platforms against surface and aerial drones, Thales provides an end-to-end solution combining shore and offshore components to detect and track, to manage all the assets and to neutralize the threat. This integrated solution relies on robust, long range and cybersecure naval communications.

Ensuring coastal waters and shipping lanes are free from naval mines is vital for free movement of the world’s maritime traffic. Thales market leading systems provide scalable solutions spanning conventional, hybrid and autonomous mine countermeasures. Our Pathmaster autonomous solutions are proven at sea and benefit from the ultra-performant SAMDIS Sonar coupled with Mi-Map data analysis powered by AI.

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CoastShield surveillance for coastal protection and maritime operations

With CoastShield, Thales ensures a nationwide coastal surveillance with early detection of the full threat spectrum, based on a smart set of sensors and a unique experience in AI.

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