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Thales has been contracted to manufacture 5,000 of the laser-guided missiles in a deal worth £1.6 billion ($2 billion).

Qatar Airways is speeding up Starlink installations and planning an IFE maintenance hub in Doha.

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

The Airbus CEO says talks with Leonardo and Thales to fix an overcapacity problem in European satellite development and production could lead to creating a combined entity modeled on missile-maker MBDA.

Thales and France-based carrier Amelia are scaling up their collaboration on preventing the formation of condensation trails, or contrails.

New French and Israeli air-launched weapons could enter the Indian inventory following agreements with state-owned Bharat Dynamics and Bharat Electronics.

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

France’s defense materiel agency DGA has contracted Airbus in partnership with Thales for a further two-year risk-assessment study on the A321MPA.

The method’s instruction is based on the observation of risks in operations, making pilots better aware of their performance.

With an eye on future commercial aircraft, Thales envisions a path for certifiable AI in uncrewed systems and air traffic management.

Delta has unveiled its Delta Sync seatback IFE system, built on Thales’ FlytEDGE cloud-based design, the two companies announced at CES 2025.

The British Army decided to withdraw its Thales Watchkeeper uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS) because they are “no longer fit for operational purpose."

Airbus says the bulk of the head-count reduction it disclosed in October will hit its space segment, with over half of the 2,043 positions being eliminated.

The UK has opened a fraud probe into Thales.

Work is underway on a European-funded research and development effort to help protect aircraft systems from cyberattacks.

The UK Defense Ministry is to chop Chinook and Puma helicopters from its inventory as well as the troubled fleet of Watchkeeper uncrewed air systems.

Thales is investigating a new method to help prevent aircraft from flying too close from one another in a given airspace.

Thales says it has signed a contract with NATO’s arms procurement organization to provide a ForceShield very-short-range air-defense system to Portugal.

Thales forecasts earnings margins to bounce back to more than 7% by 2028 from the 1% the business generated last year.

JetZero has marked a key step toward development of its full-scale blended wing body demonstrator.

Australia will invest an initial $208 million to establish a local production facility for Lockheed Martin Guided Multiple Launch Rocket Systems.

Boeing says it has agreed to sell its Digital Receiver Technology (DRT) business to Thales after several months of looking for a buyer.

The latest deals come as RTX works to close several legacy investigations of RTX’s Raytheon defense division.

France has conducted the first qualification launch of the Aster 30 B1NT air- and missile-defense interceptor as it targets entry into service in 2026.

The airline has started retrofits on its Airbus A320neos and will move on to its Boeing widebodies in early 2025.