The first order of this kind from NATO, potentially the first of a long series. The Thales site in Gorgonzola, the French group’s competence center for avionics systems, wins a contract to create a mobile tactical communication system, a high-tech order worth several million euros destined for the Spanish Defense.
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“A very important contract for us – explains Thales Italy CEO Donato Amoroso – because it crowns a path started in 2022. When our group, having two sites available in Germany and Italy, chose the latter, Gorgonzola, to build a distinctive production capacity in these areas.”
The NATO contract, which will be completed within a year, concerns the supply of a Deployable Tactical Air Navigation System (D-TACAN) to the Spanish Air Force, a contract that includes a package of logistical support, spare parts, training, and maintenance services.
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The system commissioned by NATO
Mobile communication module
The mechanism, crucial to provide pilots with real-time distance and position, enabling safe navigation, approach, and landing operations both from permanent airports and temporary bases, offers an autonomous and rapidly deployable navigation capability, designed to support military operations in multiple scenarios.
“Negotiations for similar products – adds Amoroso – are open with other potential customers, NATO and beyond. Currently, in Gorgonzola, we have good utilization of production capacity, we work when needed even in two shifts, with growing demand, which in the last two years has grown by 15-20% annually and we are confident it can grow further. We take into account that when NATO expresses a preference for a technology, as now, it is ‘cleared’ globally.”
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