Together we build smarter solutions at sea
From navies and coast guards to customs officials and search and rescue teams, maritime authorities are faced with highly demanding and ever-evolving requirements. More than ever, you must be able to conduct and support increasingly complex operations, sometimes far from your national base and over longer periods of time.
Securing international operations
MKS 180 requirements
In the future, MKS 180 is to serve the navy as an all-rounder, which covers a wide range of applications thanks to its different mission modules. Due to its adaptability to a wide variety of uses, the MKS 180 is designed to perform a wide range of e.g. sea areas monitoring, support of special forces in crisis regions or support in sea rescue worldwide. A wide range of weapon systems and protection components, a high degree of modularity and the equipment with various specific ability packages form the core requirements here.
Skills and solutions from Thales
Thales develops and implements capabilities to support this mission and commitment. These include command and weapon deployment systems such as TACTICOS as well as communication and sensor solutions.
Sea combat systems, sensors and SOTAS C4ISR solutions from Thales meet a wide range of requirements for surface and aerial warfare. These system solutions perform surveillance, command, combat and communication functions and support other systems from US and European manufacturers.
Data analysis based on artificial intelligence (AI) and human factors determine the degree of risk minimization in cyberattacks in current and future operations.
Thales naval combat systems, sensors and SOTAS C4ISR solutions, meet a wide range of needs for surface and anti-air warfare. These systems solutions perform surveillance, command, combat and communication functions and support other systems from both US and European manufacturers.
Combat Management System
Tacticos is famous for its reliability and its ability to integrate virtually every sensor and effector. Its massive installed base and the unparalleled track record of integration have ensured a continuous evolution. Its solid legacy has made it the world鈥檚 most successful combat management system in service with navies on all continents.
Mission Solutions
Thales offers a complete range of domain oriented solutions for safety, littoral security, ocean security, point defence, local and wide area defence. The Mission Solutions for ships that operate in the maritime safety and security domain and/or in the defence domain with low intensity conflicts are standardized and pre-integrated. This makes them cost-effective, easy to install, easy to operate and considerably reduces delivery times.
Ballistic Missile Defence
Thales is developing the SMART-L EWC (Early Warning Capability), an upgrade of the renowned SMART-L Volume Search Radar. The new version increases the radar鈥檚 range up to an impressive 2000 km. With the same high resolution as the original version, SMART-L EWC provides the user with true ballistic missile defence capabilities.
SMART-L EWC is under contract for the four De Zeven Provinci毛n class ships of the Royal Netherlands Navy. The first system is scheduled to be installed in 2018. Two ground-based versions of this powerful radar are contracted by the Royal Netherlands Air Force for the protection of the Dutch air space.
In October 2015 HNLMS De Zeven Provincien, equipped with a prototype of the new SMART-L EWC, participated in the At Sea Demo organized by the Maritime Tactical Ballistic Defence Forum, off the coast of Scotland. The Thales radar successfully tracked an outer-atmosphere ballistic missile travelling at 7000 km/h and provided real-time cueing information to a US destroyer that launched a SM-3 to destroy the threat. Simultaneously, SMART-L EWC engaged and tracked two anti-ship cruise missiles that attacked two ships in the squadron.
Surveillance systems
Thales鈥檚 range of naval surveillance radars is enormous: from the Scout Mk3 with its FMCW technology through the successful Variant and SMART-S radars to the new-generation NS100, NS200, SM400 and SMART-L EWC, Thales caters for every need.
Weapon control
In addition to the excellent fire control capabilities of the APAR and Herakles systems, Thales presents various dedicated fire control sensors. The latest member in the large STIR family is STIR1.2 EO Mk2. Combining radar technology with optronics, this sensor is operational in many modern navies. Mirador is a full 100% optronic fire control sensor. It offers impressive performance as well as the usual advantages a passive sensor has over a conventional radar.