Market leading Secure Communication Systems for Land and Sea, Electronic Countermeasures and Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) defence.
Secure Communications from Thales comprises Land, Air, Naval and SATCOM Communications Systems, while Protection Systems covers a range of Electronic Warfare solutions, including Counter Radio Controlled Improvised Explosive Device (C-RCIED) systems, and solutions designed to defend the military and civilians against CBRN attacks.
A global leader supporting defence, government and critical national infrastructure clients, Thales is firmly established as a world-leading designer, manufacturer and provider of wide-ranging technology and systems for secure and dependable communications on land, at sea and in the air. With this comes dedicated support and fully managed services to help customers adapt to ever-changing operational environments and evolving threats.
Thales is the largest European manufacturer of military communications systems, and our UK offering draws on our extensive local and international capability. Thales provides fully integrated and modular communications systems, based on its naval Aquilon product range. It installs and commissions entire communication systems aboard Royal Navy ships, land-based operations rooms, and as deployable management systems.
Thales develops secure naval communications systems utilising our common integrated communication system, COMTICS, with a tailored modular solution created to meet specific operational needs. COMTICS allows greater mobility on board the vessel, supporting changes in the way communication devices are used and in turn driving greater operational efficiency.
The Aquilon product range, through COMTICS, interfaces internal and external communications equipment.
Thales’s Communication Management System, PARTNER, also provides a common management solution across the entire Aquilon product range. Thales has designed an open architecture that is scalable across different platforms.
With its complete offering and expertise, Thales bridges the gap between the Communication, Network Infrastructure and Application Layers for its Naval Platform solutions, whilst being a leader in protecting this ecosystem, with its Digital Trust and Cyber Security Solutions.
Thales are unique in radio suppliers, as we retain a UK based hardware and waveform development centre. This enables us to develop and supply solutions to specialist high security radio users in the military and civil field and also means we can provide a highly flexible and reactive local presence.
However, customer needs are always evolving and therefore Thales never stands still. That’s why we continue to invest in new solutions like wideband HF waveforms, enabling data communications services at reduced cost or in SATCOM denied environments.
On-going support is crucial to ensuring communications systems are fit for purpose and dependable, so Thales’s Secure Communications service includes regular auditing for potential enhancements and upgrades, as well as for periodic maintenance, and obsolescence planning for hardware and software.
Protection systems
Protection Systems cover two key areas. Firstly, Electronic counter measures, and secondly CBRN.
Thales provides systems to protect dismounted personnel and vehicles on-the-move.
Electronic Counter Measures
Thales’s Counter Radio Controlled Improvised Explosive Device (C-RCIED) systems are part of our complete Electronic Warfare suite. They protect vehicles and individuals by preventing the radio controlled detonation of improvised explosive devices.
Our solutions range from the provision of products through to complete systems. Products include Storm-H, which provides man-worn individual RCIED protection, and vehicle protection from Eclipse-V. We are a recognised UK leader in the provision of complete ECM integration services for EOD and Force Protection vehicles. Thales draws on best of breed technology of our own, as well as that from other suppliers. In addition, Thales’s skilled capability in waveform development enables us to counter the ever evolving threats posed by adversaries.
CBRN
Protection Systems include counter-CBRN technology and support services. CBRN comprises deployable bio-monitoring
and analysis systems that identify and warn against biological incidents.
With obvious military applications, CBRN systems are also proving invaluable in civilian scenarios and are increasingly procured by Government departments for domestic security. Thales’s Spinnaker has bio-monitoring capability, with a mobile laboratory to ensure fast analysis of potential threats.
You can find out more about Thales’s Spinnaker here.
Secure Communications and Protection Systems from Thales bring clear and significant advantages. Security and safety is achieved through the application of advanced communications hardware that uses bespoke waveforms and well-equipped operations rooms. Users enjoy clarity and dependability along with increased resistance to interception and hacking. Meanwhile, ECM reduces the risk from IEDs.
With Tactical Radios and bespoke waveforms, the superior communication quality and resilience achieved with higher bandwidth, data dependability and clarity of throughput, can provide crucial strategic advantage. It can convey mission critical information clearly over significant distances, and in wide-ranging operational environments.
Advanced technology at work in CBRN systems, meanwhile, can provide life-saving early warning of otherwise invisible threats, in a wide range of military and civilian contexts.