IAI, Thales team up to offer Sea Serpent anti-ship missile for UK I-SSGW requirement
14 April 2021
by Robin Hughes & Richard Scott
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has teamed up with UK-based Thales to offer the Sea Serpent guided anti-ship/anti-surface weapon system as a potential low-risk military off-the-shelf solution for UK Ministry of Defence’s (MoD’s) ship-launched Interim Surface-to-Surface Guided Weapon (I-SSGW) requirement.
I-SSGW is intended to equip several UK Royal Navy (RN) Type 23 frigates to bridge the capability gap following the retirement of the service’s current GWS 60 Harpoon Block 1C system from the end of 2023.
In March 2019 the UK MoD’s Weapons, Torpedoes, Tomahawk, and Harpoon (TTH) Project Team released a Prior Information Notice (PIN) detailing its intention to acquire a ship-launched over-the-horizon precision anti-ship capability; a subsequent provision specified an additional terrain-following precision maritime land attack capability. The
Make In India: State-Owned Bharat Dynamics Signs Pact With UK s Thales To Build STARStreak Air Defence System
Bharat Dynamics Limited
In a boost for the domestic defence manufacturing sector and the government s Make in India push, the State-owned Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL) has signed a teaming agreement with UK-based Thales to work in partnership on the STARStreak air defence system, reports
Hindu Businessline.
As a result of the teaming agreement, BDL has become a part of the STARStreak s global supply chain. In addition to this, BDL also gets the opportunity to export the air defence system to existing and future customers which include the UK s Armed Forces.