PARIS, France. A new European development program focused on modernizing main battle tank (MBT) technologies has officially launched under the title “Technologies for Existing and Future Main Battle Tanks (FMBTech),” Thales announced in a statement.

WEST WALES, U.K. The British Army has completed its largest counter-drone swarm trial, demonstrating a radiofrequency directed energy weapon (RF DEW) system capable of neutralizing multiple uncrewed aerial targets simultaneously, the U.K. Ministry of Defence announced in a statement.

ULM, Germany. Thales delivered a full set of dual traveling wave tubes (TWTs) for the Optus-11 satellite, a Ku-band spacecraft developed by Airbus Defence and Space under the OneSat reconfigurable satellite program, the company announced in a statement.

PLYMOUTH, United Kingdom. Thales delivered the first autonomous mine hunting system to the Royal Navy under the Franco-British Maritime Mine Counter Measures (MMCM) program, the company announced in a statement.

PARIS, France. Thales delivered Ku-band Dual Travelling Wave Tubes (Dual-TWTs) for the ASTRA 1Q satellite, which was built by Thales Alenia Space for global content and connectivity provider SES, the company announced in a statement.

PARIS, France. Thales delivered the first serial production autonomous drone system for mine countermeasures to the French Navy under the Maritime Mine Counter Measures (MMCM) program, the company announced in a statement.

CANNES, France. Thales Alenia Space signed a contract with NIBE Space to supply a high-resolution optical satellite, marking the first step in NIBE’s Earth observation constellation project, the company announced in a statement.