Renault Trucks Defense and ales team on digitised vehicle systems

17 February 2013

IDEX, Abu Dhabi 17 February 2013 Renault Trucks Defense and Thales have reached a cooperation agreement on digitised vehicle systems to develop innovative solutions for defence and security forces.

Under the agreement, Renault Trucks Defense and Thales will propose mission systems that exploit the full potential of vehicle mobility and protection and provide real-time communications between vehicles to support shared situation awareness and cooperative engagements.

The platforms will include fighting vehicles as well as armoured security vehicles equipped with a range of weapons, observation systems and communication systems depending on mission requirements.

The agreement addresses a range of operational contexts:

Army surveillance and reconnaissance units (close-range reconnaissance, target acquisition, etc.), security forces (border surveillance, critical infrastructuresurveillance, etc.) and special forces

Battlegroups made up of different types of combat and support vehicles

Security and law enforcement units, particularly in urban environments

Renault Trucks Defense and Thales are already working together on digitised vehicle systems further to an initial partnership agreement for the VAB Mk3 armoured personnel carrier announced at Eurosatory 2012.

Several months ago, Renault Trucks Defense launched its Battlenet Inside system. Based on electronic architectures developed by Volvo, Battlenet Inside interconnects all the systems on an armoured vehicle and enables them to operate collaboratively. Drawing on electronic architectures developed for commercial markets, Battlenet Inside brings military users the benefits of COTS solutions that have been extensively tested on large fleets of commercial vehicles.

With Thaless VSYS-Net solution, vehicles are part of a complete digitised sphere of engagement, with crews working collaboratively both within vehicles and with other platforms (armoured vehicles, UAVs, artillery, command centres, etc.). VSYS-Net is one of a range of battlespace digitisation solutions that draw on Thales's experience on urban security, reconnaissance vehicle and combat vehicle digitisation programmes in France and internationally.

Through this partnership, Renault Trucks Defense and Thales will be in a position to propose the best technical solutions and the best value for money on future programmes as well as ensuring the development headroom needed to address new requirements as they emerge.

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