It detects “all types of threats”: in this factory, Thales is developing its super radar for Ukraine

It fits in a shipping container, deploys in fifteen minutes and folds even faster. Packed with new technologies, with a range of 250 km and capable of detecting “all types of threats”, the Thales GM200 radar is one of the great successes of the French company. This best-seller designed at the Limours site (Essonne), of which 60 units have already been sold throughout the world to equip operational troops, will soon equip the Ukrainian army. After welcoming the Minister of the Armed Forces, Sébastien Lecornu, and his Ukrainian counterpart last February, the group opened its doors to us.