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Thales Underwater Systems (TUS), formerly known as Thomson Marconi Sonar, is a defence manufacturer specialising in Sonar for Submarines and Surface Ships, as well as Airborne sonar systems, and communications masts and systems for Submarines. Thomson Marconi Sonar was formed as Ferranti Thomson Sonar Systems by the merger of the sonar systems businesses of Thomson-CSF and Ferranti. ...
The F70 type frigates (here, La Motte-Picquet) are fitted with VDS (Variable Depth Sonar) type DUBV43 or DUBV43C tugged sonars SONAR (SOund Navigation And Ranging) — or sonar — is a technique that uses sound propagation under water to navigate or to detect other watercraft. ...
TUS has sites in the United Kingdom, France, and Australia, and is a subsidiary of Thales Naval, which in turn is part of the Thales Group. The Thales Group is a global electronics company serving aerospace, defence, and information technology markets worldwide. ...
History Thales Underwater Systems has a complicated history, as it is formed of a number of smaller companies.
This section looks at Thales Underwater Systems Ltd (UK company). Thales Underwater Systems in the UK comprises (2005) the Cheadle Heath (in Stockport) and the Templecombe (Somerset) sites. As part of a French company there are other parts of TUS in France at Brest and Sophia Antipolis (Nice). Stockports Town Hall Stockport is a town in Greater Manchester, in North West England. ...
Templecombe is a village in Somerset, situated on the A357 road twelve miles east of Yeovil and 30 miles west of Salisbury. ...
The Cheadle Heath site was set up in 1977 as an overspill of the Ferranti Military Systems Division based at Wythenshawe. It comprised groups covering Training Simulators, Communication Systems and a small Underwater Systems Group (30 people) which was engaged in the development of displays and computer interfaces for sonars 2016 and 2020. This was work which was not wanted by the main parts of Ferranti based at Western Road, Bracknell. The main parts of these sonars were developed by the Plessey Marine Research Unit at Templecombe, Somerset.
The sonar work at Cheadle increased and took on digital signal processing, algorithm development, display generation, simulation, displays (raster-scan TV displays and LCD), mass storage, computer interfaces and highways. Takeovers of other companies gave expertise in sonar arrays. The Sonar Systems Group increased in size and successfully bid against Plessey for parts of sonar 2054. Other parts of the Ferranti empire started to crumble, aided by the merger with International Signal (James Guerin) in 1987 to form Ferranti International. Ferranti eventually went bankrupt (again) in 1993, however the small, idiosyncratic Sonar Systems Group had become a successful standalone business. A Joint Venture Company was formed between the Ferranti liquidators (49.9%) and Thomson-CSF (50.1%) to form Ferranti Thomson Sonar Systems. The Ferranti share was bought out by GEC-Marconi to become Thomson Marconi Sonar Systems.
The Templecombe part of TUS started life as Plessey Marine, before becomingPlessey Naval Systems, producing Sonar and other related systems. The Plessey Company plc was a British-based international electronics, defence and telecommunications company. ...
This was taken over in 1989 by GEC-Marconi, the defence arm of GEC, to eventually form Marconi Underwater Systems. The General Electric Company plc (GEC) is a British company that was renamed Marconi plc on November 30, 1999 after its defence unit Marconi Electronic Systems was divested and sold to British Aerospace. ...
The General Electric Company plc or GEC was a major UK company involved in consumer and defence electronics, communications and engineering. ...
After the sonar systems businesses of Thomson-CSF and Ferranti were merged (creating Ferranti Thomson Sonar Systems), GEC-Marconi acquired Ferranti's share, and the company became Thomson Marconi Sonar (TMS). Marconi Underwater Systems became a part of this company. Thomson-CSF was a major electronics and defense contractor. ...
Ferranti or Ferranti International Signal plc by the time of its collapse, was a major UK electrical engineering and equipment firm, known primarily for their defense electronics and power grid systems. ...
Thomson Marconi Sonar was formed as Ferranti Thomson Sonar Systems by the merger of the sonar systems businesses of Thomson-CSF and Ferranti. ...
Thomson Marconi Sonar was formed as Ferranti Thomson Sonar Systems by the merger of the sonar systems businesses of Thomson-CSF and Ferranti. ...
In 1999, as part of the merger of Marconi Electronic Systems (as GEC-Marconi had become), and British Aerospace, the new BAE Systems held 49.9% of TMS, which it sold to Thales (the new name for Thomson-CSF) in 2001. Thomson Marconi Sonar was renamed Thales Underwater Systems. Marconi Electronic Systems (MES), or GEC-Marconi as it was until 1998, was the defence arm of The General Electric Company (GEC). ...
British Aerospace (BAe) was a UK aircraft manufacturer, now part of BAE Systems. ...
BAE Systems, plc is the worlds fourth largest defense contractor [2] and a commercial aerospace products manufacturer. ...
Products - Dipping sonar for Merlin Helicopter
- Minehunting Sonars 2093 and 2193
- TSM 5424 Petrel sonar - a multi function mine and obstacle aviodance sonar for surface ships
- S Cube SSK - a new sonar control system for submarines
- Sonar 2087
- Sonar 2076 - very sophisticated sonar suite capable of detecting and tracking small targets from hundreds of miles away. Equivalent of 60,000 PCs processing power.
Sonar 2087 is a new towed sonar system for Royal Navy Type 23 frigates maufactured by Thales Underwater Systems. ...
Sites Brest is the name of several cities: City in Belarus: Brest, Belarus, formerly in Russia and the Soviet Union and formerly known as Brest-Litovsk. ...
Sophia Antipolis is a technology park north-west of Nice, France. ...
Templecombe is a village in Somerset, situated on the A357 road twelve miles east of Yeovil and 30 miles west of Salisbury. ...
Somerset is a county in the south-west of England. ...
This article is about the English county. ...
See also Thales Group The Thales Group is a global electronics company serving aerospace, defence, and information technology markets worldwide. ...
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