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The UK Defense Ministry has begun exploring the market to find a replacement for the Crowsnest helicopter-borne airborne-early-warning radar system.

Carriers have yet to find a way to meet passenger expectations in inflight connectivity, an expert panel says at the Passenger Experience Conference in Hamburg.

To accelerate the production of inertial reference systems and make them more compact, Thales is relying on micro electro-mechanical systems accelerometers.

Connectivity upgrades and a new global MRO event are highlights of this issue’s roundup.

Europe’s defense industry is getting ready for a surge in government spending that is driving companies to reset growth ambitions and strategies more broadly.

European defense companies are scrambling to meet surging demand at home for their equipment.

Thales Alenia Space has secured the contract from Telespazio to build the satellites for the European Space Agency’s planned Moonlight lunar navigation system.

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.