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Thales USA Details Interest In Offering Capabilities For Army’s FVL Fleet

By Matthew Beinart

Friday, August 13th, 2021

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Thales USA Details Interest In Offering Capabilities For Army’s FVL Fleet

Thales' AirMaster C radar. Photo: Thales.

Thales USA officials this week detailed the company’s interest in providing Future Vertical Lift (FVL) capabilities, to include a new multi-mode radar, helmet-mounted displays and a modular avionics system, with an emphasis on meeting the Army’s priority for open architecture requirements. Ryan Walters, Thales Visionix’s FVL and rotary wing business development manager, told Defense Daily the company expects a more complete picture of the Army’s plan to pursue FVL subsystems within the next 12 to 24 months. “What we do…

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