Four US and UK Defence prime contractors have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the establishment of an AUKUS Combat Systems Collaborative Team, positioning themselves for a potential role in Australia’s future SSN-AUKUS submarines. British company BAE Systems, US…
British soldiers have successfully tracked, targeted and defeated swarms of Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS) in the latest trial of a new directed energy weapon developed in the UK. The RapidDestroyer was developed by a Thales UK-led consortium and uses Radio…
Paris-based Thales and robotics and autonomy specialists Exail have been selected by the French defence procurement agency, the Direction Generale pour l’Armement (DGA), to deliver eight new Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV) with an option to acquire a further eight. The…
A Thales-supplied Uncrewed Surface Vessel (USV) has taken a significant step towards autonomous mine-hunting operations during trials in the UK. The USV, Royal Navy Motor Boat (RNMB) Apollo, completed a demanding series of Royal Navy and industry open water assurance…
Paris-based Thales has announced its plan to buy cybersecurity firm Tesserent, one of Australia and New Zealand's largest cybersecurity companies, with a 2022 turnover of $185 million (circa €110 million) and about 500 employees across nine offices. The combination of…
ESA's OPS-SAT nanosatellite. Image: Thales In an ethical hacking exercise in Europe, four Thales cybersecurity researchers managed to introduce malicious code into a European Space Agency (ESA) demonstrator satellite. The team was taking part in the third CYSAT, a European…
The UK Ministry of Defence has selected Australian company Schiebel and Franco-British contractor Thales to deliver the Peregrine Uncrewed Air System (UAS) contract for the Royal Navy under a contract reported to be worth around $25 million. This will see…