Thai army orders radar and expands vehicle inventory
Hensoldt announced on 22 October that it will be supplying a TRML-3D surveillance and air defence radar to the Royal Thai Army (RTA). This is the third such radar that Thailand has ordered, with delivery expected in 2022.
Guillaume Bayol, Hensoldt’s Asia-Pacific sales director, said, ‘Our TRML-3D is an extremely reliable radar, developed especially to be rapidly deployable and highly mobile for fast camp and decampment. The decision by the Royal Thai Army to select TRML-3D for the third time clearly demonstrates the confidence that they have in Hensoldt radar solutions.’
By acquiring airborne targets, the multimode phased-array radar can
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