Thales Australia

COMPANY OVERVIEW

Thales in Australia is a trusted partner of the Australian Defence Force and has a history of patient investment to build advanced in-country capability across manufacturing, critical systems and services.

Thales is a global technology leader with more than 81,000 employees on five Continents and operates in the markets of defence and security, aerospace, space, digital identity and cybersecurity. Thales provides solutions, services and products to help its customers – companies, organisations and governments – to carry out their critical missions.

Thales has a long-standing presence in Australia with 4,300 employees working across 35 sites for a range of government departments and corporate clients.

We excel in supplying defence forces with an unrivalled depth of capability in the following five areas:

Communications, command and control systems
Mission services and support
Protection and mission/combat systems
Surveillance, detection and intelligence systems
Training and Simulation

PRODUCTS

Thales Australia Defence solutions include:

Bushmaster protected vehicles, including Vehicle Integration, Upgrade and Through Life Support (TLS) services
Guided Weapons and Munitions
Explosive Ordnance Services
Solid Rocket Motor production

DISCRIMINATORS

Munitions:

Thales Australia is the largest supplier of explosive ordnance to the Australian Defence Force, with a successful track record delivering ammunition, propellants, explosives and related services. We are also a principal supplier of small arms ammunition to the New Zealand Defence Force. Thales also produces high quality propellant and ammunition for military and civilian domestic and international customers.
Manufacturing is based at two main regional sites – Benalla in Victoria and Mulwala in New South Wales. The Benalla site produces ammunition, explosive ordnance and other munitions, while the Mulwala site focuses on high quality propellants and explosives. Thales possesses the management depth and expertise, know-how and resources strength necessary to manage Australia’s domestic and export munitions manufacturing with confidence and safety well into the future.

Solid Rocket Motor Production:

Thales provides the capability to manufacture solid rocket motors, and the integration of those motors to a variety of guided and unguided applications. We are able to undertake formulation of propellants required for rocket motor manufacture to stringent quality, reliability and safety standards.

Bushmaster Vehicle:

Bushmaster is a 17-tonne, 4x4 multi-role protected vehicle incorporating a 4+ tonne payload and combining high levels of ballistic and blast protection with excellent off-road mobility. For more than 20 years, Bushmaster has proven performance in protecting and saving the lives of soldiers during military operations, from Iraq to Afghanistan, Mali to Ukraine.
Over 1200 Bushmasters are in service on four continents with nine defence forces. More than a life-protecting, highly capable protected vehicle, Bushmaster is a well-supported, long-term protected mobility platform solution for defence forces.

AVAILABILITY AND SUPPORT

Thales Australia has global reach through Thales Group. Our products are backed by a comprehensive Through Life Support system that ensures customers around the world maintain operational capability
Our Defence services and solutions are all in current production

KEY CUSTOMERS

Australian Defence Force
Defence Force vehicle customers including United Kingdom, Netherlands, Japan, New Zealand, Jamaica, Fiji, Indonesia and Ukraine
Governments
Law enforcement
Major corporations

Key Partnerships (Suppliers)

Thales works with many Small to medium enterprises (SMEs) and partners from Australia and around the world

QUALITY ACCREDITATIONS AND AWARDS

Thales in Australia has formed strategic alliances with a range of Government and industry organisations to develop and deliver world-leading technologies
Thales also partners with a wide range of research institutions

Contact Details

Name: Duncan Watt
Company: Thales Australia, Guided Weapons/Munitions
Position: Sales Director
Email: [email protected]

Name: Graham Evenden
Company: Vehicles, Thales Australia
Position: Sales Director
Email: [email protected]