Defence

Air

Air forces face various threats, including great power tensions, terrorism, cyberattacks, and asymmetric warfare.
Ensuring national sovereignty and protecting critical infrastructures is a priority, while strengthening international cooperation and interoperability.

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Our systems support ground-based and airborne operations, covering the full decision chain, from threat detection to neutralisation, and from mission preparation to post analysis. 

As a systems integrator and expert in electronic, Thales leverages advanced technologies such as AI, to develop innovative and cybersecure solutions and services, enabling armed forces to make the right decisions at the right time.

Addressing Air Forces’ today & tomorrow challenges

  1. Surveillance & Intelligence

    Radars, airborne solutions and aircrafts delivering information and early warning

  2. Air Defence

    Thales is a key provider of systems that integrate all components of short and medium-range air defence and missile defence, offering multi-layered air defence solutions

  3. Collaborative Air combat

    Turning the air combat tool into a more efficient, more resilient and more agile system.
    Thales helps Forces to conduct high-end operations, with solution for maintaining operational superiority, better controlling airspace and strengthening the survivability of the global system

  4. Cybersovereignty

    Faced with growing threats, Thales guarantees the security of critical systems through sovereign, certified and interoperable solutions, ensuring resilience and autonomy

  5. Drone Warfare

    Ensure operational superiority for forces in this new dimension of the battlefield by providing them with innovative solutions for the whole drone ecosystem, from drone solutions to platforms integration and to counter-UAS systems

  6. Weapon systems for Air Forces

    Diversified means for adaptive actions, to protect people, Forces and assets. The efficiency of this protection relying on an enlarged range of solutions that include directed energy weapons, jammers, rockets, guns, and missiles.

KEY FIGURES

#60
Air Forces
50+
Protected countries
1,300
Radars

Efficient, smart and connected capacities covering and accelerating the whole OODA loop

Our solutions

Highlight from our extensive portfolio solution

Weapon Systems

Providing precise, efficient and resilient weapons adapted to any kind of threats.

  • Air defence
  • Air combat
  • Weapon systems

Airborne Tactical Reconnaissance & Targeting

Attack, Reconnaissance, Navigation

  • Air combat
  • Fighter
  • Defence

AirMaster C multi-mode airborne surveillance radar

Elevating Airborne Surveillance with AirMaster C

  • Defence
  • Naval
  • Air

Electronic Warfare

Decide with certainty

  • Defence
  • Naval
  • Electronic warfare

Aeroconnectivity

Ensuring operational superiority by guaranteeing secure end-to-end connectivity for air combat.

  • Air defence
  • Air combat
  • Collaborative combat

Fleet Management

Secured connectivity solution for your medical equipment fleet management

  • Cybersecurity
  • Enterprise
  • Healthcare

MINDS

Multi sensor image INterpretation & Dissemination System

  • Command, control & intelligence
  • Defence
  • Land

HIGHLIGHT : Hypersonic Defence

Thales provides bricks for a hypersonic defence.

As an industrial leader of combat-proven missile defence systems, Thales provides bricks for a hypersonic defence, and carries out permanent R&D

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