Thales
naval defence capabilities for maritime safety and security solutions
for tomorrow.
With
more than 50 years experience in delivering systems, equipment and services
to naval forces, Thales offers unrivalled and proven expertise with
tangible benefits for client navies around the world. More than 50 navies
place their trust in Thales to support their anti-air, surface and underwater
combat capabilities and provide effective maritime safety and security
solutions for tomorrow. With a total surface area of more than 600 square
meters, Thales’s stand (H65 G66) is organised around 5 areas :
Above Water Warfare, Underwater Warfare, Information Superiority, Maritime
Surveillance System and Services.
Pierre
Eric Pommellet, Senior Vice President - Defence Mission Systems Division,
presents Thales' naval defence products and services at Euronaval 2012.
Above
Water Warfare
Thales above-water combat systems meet a wide range of needs. Thales’s
offer in Above Water Warfare varies from surveillance, command and
combat systems to support for weapon systems from both US and European
manufacturers. Thales has successfully enhanced this high-value proposition
for surface fleets by proactively supporting customers as their missions
and operational requirements evolve.
Today, the company is both a trusted instigator of mission-critical
combat systems and a design authority and architect for complete naval
and maritime solutions. Thales’s solutions encompass all the
mission capabilities of a joint seabased force, from anti-air, surface
and anti-submarine warfare to peacekeeping operations within multinational
coalitions.
The group has the world’s largest portfolio of naval sensors
worldwide with Thales Netherland having recently developed the Integrated
Mast. Integrating all sensors and antennas in one mast structure solves
the problems that most naval ships encounter : sensors often block
each other’s view and interfere with each other when operational.
The Integrated Mast offers a better performance with lower life cycle
costs and is already on board the Royal Netherlands Navy’s HMS
Holland.
The Sea-based Ballistic Missile Defence (SMART-L Early Warning Capability)
is the Thales solution to counter Ballistic Missiles. SMART-L’s
already impressive instrumented range of 400 km will be more than
doubled through an innovative upgrade of the sensor. The SMART-L radar
is used by navies all around the world including the Netherlands,
UK, France, Germany, Italy, Denmark and South Korea.
Thales’s combat management system, Tacticos, fulfils all naval
operations as well as joint/combined mission management. The system
has a fail proof architecture ensuring full functionality and facilitates
full integration of the total mission system. Tacticos has an unrivalled
installed base and is used by thirty five navies in all regions of
the world for all their operations.
Above Water
Warfare area of Thales Company booth at Euronaval 2012. The group has
the world’s largest portfolio of naval sensors worldwide with
Thales Netherland having recently developed the Integrated Mast.
Underwater
Warfare
Thales designs and delivers acoustic systems for anti-submarine warfare
and antimine warfare. Our solutions and related services are suitable
for all types of platforms : submarines, surface combatants, helicopters,
maritime patrol aircraft and unmanned naval systems.
With fifty years of experience in undersea warfare, Thales is recognised
as an allround leader in undersea warfare for its advanced technologies
and ability to adapt to fast-changing operational contexts. The company
is the major exporter of sonar and associated systems for navies and
air forces and is constantly innovating to provide more powerful, more
compact, modular and “user friendly” sonar systems which
deliver the best operational capabilities with optimised cost of ownership.
The company has delivered, or has been contracted, for more than 300
minehunting sonar systems worldwide.
For many years, Thales has been actively developing unmanned and autonomous
naval systems, which are poised to progressively replace conventional
solutions. Asemar, an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) dedicated
to maritime security, is a project funded by the General Directorate
for Enterprises (DGE) in France, involving the industrial companies
Thales and ECA Robotic and four educational institutions. Thales is
responsible for the overall project coordination, the high resolution
sonar sensor and associate on-board intelligence processing, as well
as the system deployment. The proven at sea high-resolution side-scan
sonar with synthetic-aperture array gives the AUV unparalleled measurement
and imaging performance.
Improvements in sonar performance are driven by the increasing need
for naval forces to operate in the demanding acoustic environment of
littoral waters, and by the emergence of new generations of near-silent
submarines. Responding to this evolution, Thales has developed the highly
successful CAPTAS family of variabledepth sonars, which are available
in two ring (Captas-2) and four ring (Captas-4) configurations.
Thales is the world leader in very low-frequency variable depth sonars.
CAPTAS is the only low frequency variable depth sonar in service with
NATO and major navies.
Thales has also developed the FLASH (Folding Light Acoustic System for
Helicopters), a low-frequency wideband sonar system. Initially designed
for helicopters, the FLASH system has also been successfully integrated
on unmanned surface vehicles for demonstrations. FLASH is the solution
of choice for naval forces around the world, including the US Navy,
the UK Royal Navy, the French Navy, the Royal Australian Navy, the Norwegian
Navy and the United Arab Emirates Navy.
Underwater
Warfare area of Thales Company booth at Euronaval 2012. With fifty years
of experience in undersea warfare, Thales is recognised as an allround
leader in undersea warfare for its advanced technologies and ability
to adapt to fast-changing operational contexts.
Information
Superiority
The Informational Superiority area will showcase Thales’s ability
to connect forces for maritime domain awareness. Thales supports the
transformation of naval forces by delivering systems and solutions that
ensure that all players acquire, exploit and exchange the required information
to act decisively. With its C4ISR solutions, Thales offers naval forces
interoperability with land, air, allied and NATO forces.
The Information Superiority area will be divided into the following
three zones: Information Acquisition, Information Exploitation and Information
Distribution.
In the Information Acquisition zone, Thales proposes a wide range of
onboard equipment and systems enabling ships and naval task forces to
have a clear view of the operational environment. The Vigile product
line is the latest generation of Radar Electronic Support Measure systems.
This includes the Vigile LW, which provides a real-time tactical view
of the surrounding area and the Vigile DPX, a new radar designed to
provide exceptional performance for users with high-end Electronic Warfare
requirements. Artemis, a fully passive infrared surveillance system,
is able to automatically detect, track and classify both air and surface
targets simultaneously. It can be integrated on any type of ships or
in shore-based surveillance systems.
Bluegate IFF/ADS-B are the new digital, leading-edge Identification
Friend or Foe systems from Thales. They feature all the new civilian
and military modes with Mode S, ADS-B and Mk XIIA (including mode 5
standard level 1 and 2).
In the Information Exploitation zone, Thales’s solutions provide
decision superiority to operational commanders. The growing importance
of maritime cooperation and coordination between the various actors
involved (coastal, civilian and naval) calls for a greater level of
agility and versatility from C4I systems. Thales’s Integrated
Maritime C4I capabilities enable commanders to build and share situational
awareness between networked communities of interest. The Geomaker also
provides geospatial information services to expert users, delivering
high-quality geospatial information services, from maps to high-accuracy
digital elevation models.
In the Information Distribution zone, Thales offers solutions that ensure
high connectivity as well as secure and interoperable communications.
These include Aquilon, the new Fully Integrated Communications System
(FICS) including SATCOM communications, which provides an “IP
at sea” capability. Aquilon enables platforms to participate in
Network Centric Operations and embeds Naval Force Intranet capability.
Information
Superiority area of Thales Company booth at Euronaval 2012. In the Information
Acquisition zone, Thales proposes a wide range of onboard equipment
and systems enabling ships and naval task forces to have a clear view
of the operational environment.
Maritime
Surveillance System
Thales’s Maritime Surveillance System area offers a comprehensive
range of flexible solutions from equipment to systems for effective
monitoring of maritime safety, security and surveillance activities.
These include shore based Maritime Surveillance System Solutions, which
support the diverse needs of public and private authorities in charge
of safety and security missions at sea.
Thales’s Satellite Surveillance Solutions use a high performance
satellite constellation for worldwide maritime surveillance, providing
large-scale detection of cooperative and non cooperative vessels. This
is of great importance as France is the country with the largest maritime
domain in Europe. There is thus a great need to monitor and protect
it. A better maritime surveillance is requested by civilian and military
end users and space systems are the most relevant ones to cover and
monitor huge areas such as open seas.
In the domain of Coastal Surveillance, Thales’s long range coastal
surveillance radar, the Coast Watcher 100, ensures the detection and
tracking of surface and low altitude air targets. The radar, available
in civil or military version, is also the new market reference for maintenance
policy thanks to its fault tolerant architecture and simplified maintenance
process. Even in a harsh environment, the radar has outstanding small
target detection.
AMASCOS, a mission-proven Thales airborne maritime situation and control
system, will also be on display at Euronaval. The system ensures the
success of maritime surveillance, anti-surface and anti submarine warfare
missions. It is designed for all types of platforms and combines a powerful
tactical command and control subsystem based on the latest generation
sensors and radars.
Maritime
Surveillance System area of Thales Company booth at Euronaval 2012.
Thales’s Maritime Surveillance System area offers a comprehensive
range of flexible solutions from equipment to systems for effective
monitoring of maritime safety, security and surveillance activities.
Services
Thales has earned an unrivalled service record with more than 50 navies
around the world. For each customer, Thales covers the complete range
of the support spectrum to suit increasing operational constraints and
optimises in-service support cost. The Thales services offer is innovative
and modular, tailored to each customer’s requirements.
CALAS is Thales’s answer to minimise its customer’s risks
and costs by using a lightweight autonomous training target for Anti
Submarine Warfare exercises at sea. A highly realistic simulation of
submarine acoustic signatures and kinematics enables CALAS to be the
light solution in sonar training.
Thanks to DARWIN-S, the in-service life of systems can be extended and
optimised. Thales’s innovative approach in technology insertion
offers customers a comprehensive and affordable range of services with
incremental upgrade options.
NEPTUNE, the high-fidelity training service for airborne maritime surveillance,
helps to prepare for tomorrows missions thanks to its latest simulation
and training technologies. Thales can thus offer its maritime patrol
customers a full range of technico-operational services.
Another example of Thales’s expertise in the services domain is
NEWTON, a best of breed electronic warfare training service. It allows
navy crews to practice electronic warfare drills regardless of whether
their platform has a built-in defence aids suite, without the need for
a costly electronic warfare range.
Smart Care is the advanced and proven Thales availability concept for
complex systems. Its purpose is to enable global and optimised fleet
management, at the best cost and through a modular, adaptable and progressive
offer. There will be three demonstrations on the stand, related to Smart
Care: an operational overview, an illustration of the availability engineering
expertise that is required, as well as the interconnection of multiple
information systems to support availability commitment in complex defence
systems.
Thales Company
is equiping more than 500 ships all over the world from more than 50
navies.
