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Customer requirements

Thales is under contract from the French defence procurement agency (DGA) to provide through-life support (TLS) for the Damocles pod for a period of three years. The terms of the contract include a guarantee of 80% immediate operational availability for the entire Damocles fleet. In service since 2004, the Damocles pod is currently deployed on the "Super Etendard Modernisé" (standard 5) aircraft on board the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier and at the Landivisiau base. The French Navy Rafales will be equipped progressively.

Key challenges
The Thales-designed Damocles laser target tracking and designation pod is critical to the ability to deliver surgical strikes with minimum collateral damage. The key challenges of the Damocles TLS contract are as follows:

• assuring operational availability of 80% at any given point in time for the entire fleet of pods,
• providing this level of availability despite extreme conditions of use, including deck landings on the aircraft carrier,
• optimising the use of the pods during out-of-area operations, when movements of expert personnel and maintenance equipment are more difficult to obtain on short notice.

Solution

To meet our availability commitments, a specific level 2 of maintenance procedure was established for the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier. This includes video maintenance through a secure satellite link (Syracuse) to provide real-time support from distant resources. Thales nevertheless maintains a permanent capacity to move personnel and equipment to the Landivisiau base and the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier to provide a complete range of services from diagnostics to repair and start-up if required.

Thales added-value


Thales is the first contractor to roll out a secure video remote maintenance solution on board the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier. Through this contract, Thales confirms its expertise in the support of optronic systems and its commitment to supporting forces on deployment by adapting to the specific constraints of the armed forces and progressively adopting the concept of on-mission availability as part of the capability-based approach to military operations

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Earlier thought I have created an Eurofighter brigade at PDF but seems like its opposite now!!! :drag: EFT may have only one shortcoming ie price otherwise it wins anytime. :shout:
 
Earlier thought I have created an Eurofighter brigade at PDF but seems like its opposite now!!! :drag: EFT may have only one shortcoming ie price otherwise it wins anytime. :shout:

Short comings are plenty.... it wont be short of coming... Raffy brigade rules.:thinktank:
 
Guys which has the most lowest RCS????

EF or Rafale or F-18 or F-16 or Mig-35,gripen
 
Ultimately Raffy brigade will join us after EFT is chosen. :D

Not only us.. few other nationalities too.. cause it has the potential to bankrupt us unless the deal is fixed along with the kohinoor diamond.
 
In EFT and Rafale which has lower RCS than other????

No country reveal that but both aircrafts inducted in last 10 years have been developed keeping RCS reduction in mind. Rafale said to have some active radar cancellation system. But I doubt it.
 
Not only us.. few other nationalities too.. cause it has the potential to bankrupt us unless the deal is fixed along with the kohinoor diamond.

No matter what the price is but it was earlier mentioned by defence minister that the winner have to supply the planes with in the quoted price tag of $11 billion. This was the RFP, give the planes in the mentioned price tag. It will not bankrupt us but along with MKI, Mig-29UPG, Mirage-2009 and LCA will increase heart-bits of our enemy further.
 

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