{"id":38242,"date":"2026-06-19T13:37:37","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T13:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/38242\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T13:37:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T13:37:37","slug":"thales-x-renault-drones-from-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/38242\/","title":{"rendered":"THALES x RENAULT &#8211; Drones from France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thalesgroup.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">THALES<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.renaultgroup.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">RENAULT GROUP<\/a> (RG) announce the signing of a partnership agreement to jointly develop and industrialise the large-scale production of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thalesgroup.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">THALES<\/a>\u2019 TOUTATIS loitering munition. This announcement follows the unveiling of the innovative 4 TROOP tactical vehicle, presented by the two Groups.<\/p>\n<p>This strategic partnership combines <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thalesgroup.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">THALES<\/a> cutting-edge defence expertise with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.renaultgroup.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">RENAULT GROUP<\/a>\u2019s industrial engineering and manufacturing capabilities to establish a sovereign, agile and competitive drone industry in France, fully aligned with the requirements of the wartime economy.<\/p>\n<p>Through this collaboration, production of loitering munition could begin as early as 2027, with a manufacturing capacity of 1,000 units per month from the first year, marking a significant ramp-up in France\u2019s industrial capacities in this strategic field.<\/p>\n<p>This partnership will help secure a resilient and sovereign supply of munitions for France, while addressing the evolving operational and strategic requirements of the armed forces and strengthening the competitiveness of the national defence industry.<\/p>\n<p>Designed for high-intensity conflicts, the TOUTATIS short-range loitering munition provides armed forces with a new operational advantage. Highly versatile, it can be deployed by dismounted soldiers and launched from a variety of platforms (combat vehicles, aircraft and naval platforms). Resistant to electromagnetic jamming and equipped with a mission-configurable warhead, TOUTATIS is capable of neutralising targets such as combat vehicles while ensuring human operators remain in the decision-making loop. Able to operate as part of a drone swarm, TOUTATIS is a scalable system designed to adapt to evolving operational requirements.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thalesgroup.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">THALES<\/a> online<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.renaultgroup.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">RENAULT GROUP<\/a> online<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THALES and RENAULT GROUP (RG) announce the signing of a partnership agreement to jointly develop and industrialise the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13063],"tags":[796,24470,5,12198,5719],"class_list":["post-38242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-renault","tag-drones","tag-eurosatory-2026","tag-france","tag-renault","tag-thales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}