Thales Belgium, is a 100% subsidiary of the French company Thales Group.
Thales's presence in Belgium is rooted in a long history of industrial footprint that dates back to the 1970s. Over the years, Thales Belgium has developed its industrial and technological capacity across the country and has a wide portfolio with solutions covering all major areas of the group, including Defense & Security, Aeronautics & Space, and Digital Identity & Security.
Thales in Belgium aims to grow and innovate to be constantly at the cutting-edge of technologies. That’s why Thales has strong relations with the best Belgian Universities and research centers to contribute in the innovative ecosystem of Belgium and to recruit the best talent to support its R&D. Also, Thales as developed close ties with the Belgian Industry over many years and is present in the main Belgian industrial groups and conglomerates.
Thales Belgium employs over 1,200 people on 9 sites in Belgium (Herstal, Tubize, Brussels, Charleroi, Hasselt, Leuven, Zaventem and Hasselt) to develop products and solutions that contribute to a safer, greener and more inclusive world.
Thales in Belgium has a strong expertise in cybersecurity and a unique position in CyberIT, CyberOT and sovereign crypto solutions to better serve Belgium and beyond. Thanks to the acquisition of Excellium (in Belgium and Luxembourg) Thales is strengthening its local presence.
Thales Belgium’s CyberLab is also the perfect tool to evaluate products and solutions in terms of cybersecurity. Our experts help companies develop products “secure by design” and can support the spreading of a security culture in R&D teams.
Thales Belgium is capable of providing a wide range of solutions and mission systems such as tactical communication, variety of onboard sensors for uncrewed and crewed, air/land/naval platforms, handling all the services from development, prototyping, production, to platform integration and maintenance.
Thales Belgium integrated technology in all types of platforms that helps both military and civil to be safer and more efficient. Our team’s role is to integrate systems on in order to allow data communications between land and air. Also, Thales Belgium recently launch its new competence center dedicated to C4ISR (Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance).
With the acquisition in 2016 of the Belgian start-up AvioBook Thales is leading innovation in the digitalisation of aircraft operations based on Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) solutions.
Thales Belgium is also well known as the European leader for 70 mm Rocket Systems (standard/guided). The FZ275LGR® laser-guided rocket has high precision firing capability for distances up to 8km, offering an extremely interesting alternative to missiles for low value targets. The newly FZ123 warhead is a simple and efficient effector against drones’ threat at a limited cost.
Finally, new technologies are being used and developed in Belgium through various programs such as Artificial Intelligence, Quantum and electromagnetics to better addressed new needs such as Collaborative combat and Counter-UAS.