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 "title": "Thales Agrees to Buy Exail for EUR 3.9 Billion After Safran Walks, Taking France's Naval-Autonomy Base In-House",
 "url": "https://www.grosswald.org/thales-acquires-exail-3-9-billion-naval-drones-inertial-navigation/",
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 "published": "2026-07-06T13:50:00.000+02:00",
 "updated": "2026-07-29T18:54:57.000+02:00",
 "excerpt": "\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nParis, 6 July 2026\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKey points\n\n\n * On 6 July 2026 Thales signed a binding agreement to acquire the Gorgé family's 35.51 per cent controlling stake in Exail Technologies at EUR 134 per share, an enterprise value near EUR 3.9 billion, to be followed by a mandatory offer for the rest\n * Exail — 2025 revenue EUR 479 million, over 2,200 staff — is France's specialist in naval robotics and inertial navigation, from mine-countermeasure drones to fibre-optic gyroscopes used by more than 5",
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