The contract given by the French DGA is to improve the defence forces’ drone countermeasures capabilities. Millions of new drones will circle the skies over the next 20 years, creating an enormously complicated aviation ecology and substantial safety concerns. To combat this ever-changing danger, a partnership led by Thales and CS GROUP will deploy a scalable, modular, and multi-mission anti-drone system for the defence of fixed or projected military installations for outdoor operations. Less than a year after the program’s start, the first PARADE systems will be handed to the DGA.

Thales and CS GROUP are bringing together firms from the French and European Industrial and Technological Defense Base (BITD) to establish a modular deployable Anti-Drone Protection solution to assure persistent safeguarding of vital assets to be known as “Protection déployAble modulaiRe Anti-DronEs” or “PARADE”