Thales supports airspace sovereignty in Albania with Ground Master 400 Alpha surveillance radar

In the presence of the French Minister of the Armed Forces, Sébastien Lecornu, and Albanian Defence Minister Pirro Vengu, Thales was selected as strategic industrial partner to support a short-delivery-time request to supply a combat-proven Ground Master 400 Alpha (GM400α) air surveillance radar.

To maintain airspace sovereignty, forces need to rely on assets that provide superior situational awareness at all times. Building a reliable, accurate, up-to-date Recognised Air Picture (RAP) is becoming a key challenge.

Renowned for its outstanding reliability, unmatched performance and high mobility, the GM400α plays a critical role in air surveillance worldwide. It is a game changer for air surveillance, with one of the highest performance records on the market. With its full digital architecture, it tracks air threats at a range of up to 515 km, with superior detection of low-altitude targets including slow-moving UAVs.

The current industrial ramp-up and strategy of Thales has tripled production capacity for Ground Master radars and strengthened the supply chain eco-system, providing Thales with the capacity to deliver more than 30 air surveillance radars from the Ground Master family per year and to shorten response times to meet urgent operational requests. To date more than 270 Ground Master air surveillance radars have been sold worldwide.

“We are proud to support Albania with the rapid delivery of the combat-proven Ground Master 400 Alpha," said Eric Huber, Vice President, Surface Radars, Thales. "With our increased production capacity and support from our partner eco-system, we are able to have fast turnaround times with regards to urgent operational requests. The Ground Master 400 Alpha provides a reliable, high-performance, high-mobility capability to meet Albania's air surveillance and sovereignty needs.