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The Royal Navy’s nuclear powered attack submarines will receive the Sonar 2076 Stage 5 System from Thales as part of a major BAE Systems upgrade contract |
12 February 2010 |
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Sonar 2087 system from Thales undergoes successful sea trials aboard Royal Navy Type 23 frigate, HMS Sutherland after the vessel re-enters service |
21 December 2009 |
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Investment by Thales in facility for fitting out the Warthog all-terrain tracked armoured vehicles is welcomed by the Welsh First Minister |
26 November 2009 |
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The Sonar 2093 system from Thales to be used on the Gaeta-class minehunters of the Italian Navy in re-fit contract with Intermarine |
25 November 2009 |
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The first of the mighty Warthog Armoured Vehicles ordered for troop support in Afghanistan has arrived in the UK for fitting out work and integration |
25 November 2009 |
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Thales armoured vehicle integration facility in Camarthenshire has been opened by the Minister for Wales |
24 November 2009 |
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Whitehead Alenia Sistemi Subacquei (WASS) and Thales have announced a contract with the UAE GHQ Armed Forces for the supply of an Anti-Submarine-Warfare (ASW) suite to the UAE Navy. |
12 October 2009 |
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13 August 2009 |
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The Italian Navy has installed Thales’s naval TACAN1 system to equip its new aircraft carrier Conte di Cavour. The aircraft carrier has now entered into service following an official ceremony led by Giorgio Napolitano, President of the Italian Republic. |
07 August 2009 |
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Thales UK has been awarded a three-year contract by the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) to continue its provision of specialised engineering support to the Royal Navy’s (RN’s) submarine fleet. |
24 July 2009 |
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The ECA Group in France has been awarded a contract by Thales UK for the delivery of forty Mine Killer K-STER vehicles, a ‘one shot’ Expendable Mine Disposal Vehicle (EMDV) that reduces mine-clearance time by identifying and destroying all types of mines including moored, bottom and partly-buried mines. The contract is part of the refit of two decommissioned HUNT class mine hunters, resold by the British MOD to the Lithuanian Navy. |
02 July 2009 |
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Soteria, the team bidding for the harmonised UK search and rescue helicopter (SAR-H) contract, has announced the Sikorsky S92 as its preferred choice of aircraft for the new service. |
11 June 2009 |
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A number of Thales UK’s world-leading sonar systems have been playing a critical role in a major underwater exercise as part of the Royal Navy’s (RN’s) largest overseas deployment for a decade. |
09 June 2009 |
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Thales UK has signed a contract with the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) to provide an innovative support solution for electronic warfare (EW) equipment fitted to the Royal Navy’s warship and submarine fleets. |
29 April 2009 |
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The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has extended Thales UK’s H-450 unmanned air system (UAS) contract that provides vital intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition and reconnaissance (ISTAR) support to UK forces on current operations. |
29 April 2009 |
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Thales UK has today signed a £25m sub-contract to deliver a high-tech communication system for the Royal Navy’s two new Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers. |
25 March 2009 |
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Thales UK’s naval business has today announced that it has signed a submarine Performance Partnering Arrangement (PPA) with BAE Systems. |
24 March 2009 |
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Thales UK’s naval business today announces the signature of an important sub-contract with Swedish company Polyamp AB for the supply of mine warfare degaussing systems for its new Lithuanian warship reactivation programme |
21 February 2009 |
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Thales Nederland has formalised a contract with BAE Systems Integrated System Technologies Limited for two S1850M Long Range Volume Search Radars to be installed on the new aircraft carriers for the Royal Navy. |
12 February 2009 |
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Thales UK’s naval business has signed a major sub-contract with Finning UK for the supply of propulsion engines and machinery for its new Lithuanian warship reactivation programme. |
30 January 2009 |
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Thales UK’s naval business has been awarded the prime contractorship in a new warship reactivation programme following an agreement between the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) and the Lithuanian Government. |
30 November 2008 |
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Thales UK has announced the successful first system flight trials of the WATCHKEEPER unmanned air vehicle (UAV), with the autonomous flight taking place under the system guidance of the WATCHKEEPER ground control software and fully integrated within the ground control station (GCS). |
25 November 2008 |
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The contract to supply a sonar system to the Royal Navy for its Astute-class submarine, Audacious has been awarded to Thales.
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29 October 2008 |
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Thales UK has announce that it has signed an agreement with Rolls-Royce, Converteam and L-3 for the manufacture of an integrated power and propulsion system for the UK’s Future Aircraft Carrier (CVF) programme. |
06 October 2008 |
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Thales UK’s naval business has today agreed terms, worth £134 million, for the second phase of its 10-year contract with the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for the in-service support of all Royal Navy (RN) major sonar systems. |
03 October 2008 |
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Thales UK has confirmed a further milestone for theWatchkeeper programme has been met, with the validation of Thales’s automatic take-off and landing system, MAGIC ATOLS. This trial is one of a comprehensive set of trials taking place over the next year and follows on from the first successful flight trials of the Watchkeeper unmanned air vehicle (UAV) in April 2008. |
12 August 2008 |
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Thales UK has announced the signing of a contract to supply and install a Cat III 420 Instrument Landing System (ILS)^ and 415 Distance Measuring Equipment (DME)^ to Liverpool John Lennon Airport. |
12 August 2008 |
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The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has signed the contract for the manufacturing phase of the carrier programme. |
05 July 2008 |
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After widely expected indication by the MOD that it intends to sign a contract for two aircraft carriers, industrial partners are ready to proceed with a joint venture to build them. |
28 May 2008 |
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Thales UK has announced the successful first flight of the WATCHKEEPER unmanned air vehicle (UAV) platform. The WATCHKEEPER UAV, flown for the first time on 16 April from Megido airfield in northern Israel, is the first produced air vehicle, designed and built to meet the demanding requirements of the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD). |
07 May 2008 |
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Ministry of Defence (MoD) movers will enjoy for the first time, real-time access and management of flight bookings across the Royal Air Force (RAF) fleet wherever they are in the world, due to a new IT application developed by Thales UK. |
11 April 2008 |
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Thales presents the I-Master ground surveillance radar at SOFEX 2008 and highlights the success of the flight trials programme |
09 April 2008 |
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Thales UK has been awarded a contract to supply its thermal driver sights (TDS) and Thales land navigation systems (TLNS) to FNSS of Turkey for a Middle East customer. Following an intense international competition, the order, for up to 300 driver sights and 27 navigation systems, is part of FNSS’ first phase of upgrades to these M113 vehicles. |
05 April 2008 |
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Thales UK has been awarded contracts initially worth £35m from the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) to provide long-term in-service support for the Royal Navy’s (RN’S) Trafalgar-, Vanguard- and Astute-class periscope systems. The contracts, which include the Contracting For Availability (CFA) programme, build on the existing support infrastructure in which the UK MoD has invested over many years. |
05 April 2008 |
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Improved version of Thales’ Starstreak weapon system hits the mark! |
31 March 2008 |
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New partner - and new name - announced for search and rescue bid team
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21 March 2008 |
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The Future Soldier event, held to coincide with National Science and Engineering Week, has highlighted technologies from Thales which will be used in the defence industry. |
13 March 2008 |
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Thales UK’s WATCHKEEPER programme is on track and has been steadily moving forward since June 2007, when the company unveiled its final configuration following a Critical Design Review undertaken by the Ministry of Defence (MoD).
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22 February 2008 |
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Thales UK has been awarded a £30m contract from the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) to supply the latest version of its Joint-Target Acquisition System (J-TAS) to meet the MoD’s Surveillance System and Range Finding (SSARF) requirement. |
17 February 2008 |
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The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has today announced the award of a contract to Thales UK in partnership with Boeing, for the System of Systems Integrator (SOSI) role on the Future Rapid Effect System (FRES) programme. |
07 February 2008 |
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Thales UK has announced the opening of its new Joint Electronic Warfare Experimentation Laboratory (JEWEL). The JEWEL laboratory, officially opened by Councillor Gary Hunt, The Lord Mayor of the city of Leicester, combines a fully operational Electronic Warfare Operation Centre (EWOC) to provide a complete simulation of land electronic warfare (EW) scenarios, support tools and mission planning and reporting. |
06 February 2008 |
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The first SMART-S Mk2 surveillance radar, installed on the HDMS Absalon of the Royal Danish Navy, passed the Sea Acceptance Test (SAT) with flying colours. Overall conclusion: SMART-S Mk2 easily exceeded all requirements. In particular the requirement for low elevation tracking accuracy was typically exceeded by a factor 7. During the tests , SMART-S Mk2 was controlled through Absalon's third-party supplied CFlex Command and Control system. |
01 November 2007 |
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Thales UK and Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace of Norway today announce the signing of a teaming agreement. This agreement enables Thales to address the UK remote weapons station (RWS) market through the licensed manufacture by Thales in Glasgow of the Kongsberg ‘PROTECTOR' RWS. It will provide Thales' customer base in UK with a proven product line and through-life support from within the UK. |
12 September 2007 |
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Thales ISTAR service provides 'stunning performance for UK troops' |
12 September 2007 |
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Engineers at Thales UK's Optronics business in Glasgow are installing Thales's CM10 optronic masts on the Royal Navy's new submarine, HMS Astute. |
12 September 2007 |
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Thales-designed multi-mission system hits the targets at Castlemartin |
12 September 2007 |
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Thales UK has announced the evolution to its highly successful Starstreak missile system, currently in-service with the UK Ministry of Defence. Improvements to the missile – to be called Starstreak II - include an extended range to beyond 7km, with increased coverage and altitude and improved guidance precision to provide a much sought after small target capability. |
12 September 2007 |
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Thales awarded £21.7 million US contract for target detection devices |
12 September 2007 |
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Thales UK has announced the launch of COASTMASTER, a compact, lightweight radar system (30kg) designed to be fitted in standard or electro-optic / infrared unmanned air vehicle (UAV) payload bays. This new radar combines high-performance ground surveillance with advanced maritime capabilities. |
12 September 2007 |
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Milestone achieved in Nimrod MRA4 synthetic training requirement |
12 September 2007 |
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Thales Norway to co-operate in Gripen development |
26 June 2007 |
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Thales UK and Boeing have agreed to form an exclusive team, led by Thales UK, to jointly bid to deliver the System of Systems Integrator (SOSI) role for the planned Future Rapid Effect System (FRES) program. FRES is the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) program to provide the British Army with a network-enabled and highly deployable medium-weight armored vehicle force, which will complement the UK's existing heavy and light forces and enable the UK to rapidly project warfighting capability world-wide. |
05 June 2007 |
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Thales UK and QinetiQ have signed an agreement to co-develop products, services and solutions based on the Secure Communications Interoperability Protocol (SCIP). Targeted at providing ‘best of breed' telephony solutions to the growing UK and export markets for secure telephony, both companies will use their sovereign UK High Grade and related Information Assurance capabilities to create a UK-based centre of excellence. Initial offerings will include fixed telephony solutions based on both PSTN and VoIP and interoperable mobile solutions. SCIP has been selected by the UK Government as its future secure telephony standard and is currently under consideration by at least 29 nations worldwide for defence and public safety environments. The standard is designed for both wide and narrowband voice and data security providing media independent solutions at a time of rapid change in the telephone communications industry. Key components to the SCIP standard include: key management, voice compression, encryption and a signalling plan. |
24 November 2006 |
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EUROPE - On 23 November, the Netherlands' Ministry of Defence and Thales Communications B.V. signed a contract for the delivery of Thales' Datalink Interface Processor equipment, Thales Datalink Network Management Software and peripheral equipment. With this suite, a Datalink Management System will be set up in Nieuw Milligen and three Remote Terminal Sites in Den Helder, Vredepeel and Ried (all locations in the Netherlands). The contract also includes the delivery of one Deployable Network Management System including one Deployable Remote Terminal Site. The products will be delivered early 2008. A second contract for the maintenance of these systems for a period of ten years was also signed on 23 November. The combined value of both contracts amounts to well over 4 million euro. |
23 November 2006 |
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Thales UK has received a contract from BAE Systems worth in excess of £50M to supply the Transmission Subsystem and Security Subsystem for the FALCON Programme. Thales UK is a key partner in the BAE Systems FALCON team, which has been awarded a contract to supply the first increment of the FALCON information infrastructure programme. FALCON will support the Army's command systems by providing a new high capacity, secure information system infrastructure capability at the operational and tactical levels of command that can be deployed rapidly by air into any theatre of operations. The system has greatly improved data throughput, multi-level security, mobility and manpower efficiencies compared with current systems. The Bowman tactical system and Cormorant command system will feed information into FALCON, which will be able to link back to UK headquarters using the Skynet 5 satellite communications system. In line with the Defence Industrial Strategy, FALCON is key to the 'Resilient Information Infrastructure' of Network Enabled Capability (NEC) by providing the modern, secure communications infrastructure required by deployed formations and operating bases. |
30 September 2006 |
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AEI Systems and Thales Land & Joint Systems sign sole licensing agreement. |
13 January 2006 |
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