Safran : passes milestone of 150,000 resonating gyros delivered
September 13, 2017 at 04:07 am EDT
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DSEI, London, September 13, 2017
Safran Electronics & Defense, a European leader in inertial navigation and avionics, has now delivered more than 150,000 resonating gyroscopes.
Safran has produced these types of gyros in volume since the early 2000s. This technology exploits the inertial properties of stationary waves generated within a resonating structure. The structure itself may be made in various ways, depending on the properties desired, with the highest performance offered by a miniature hemispherical shell of silica, the basis of the hemispherical resonator gyro (HRG). As the world leader in resonating gyros, Safran Electronics & Defense allows customers to benefit from the exceptional capabilities of this new generation of gyros.
The HRG features a very simple mechanism and greatly reduced parts count, enabling the production of ultra-reliable, highly compact inertial systems, capable of fulfilling a wide range of performance specifications. These systems are used in all environments - air, land, sea and space - and for both civil and defense applications.
Safran understands and applies all inertial technologies (mechanical, laser, fiber-optic, resonating), and capitalizes on more than 70 years of expertise in civil and military navigation system operating in all environments.
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Safran is a high technology international group, a leading equipment provider in the Aerospace and Defense markets. The group specializes in the design, manufacturing, and marketing of equipment and systems of high technology mechanical and electronic equipment. Net sales break down by product family as follows:
- aeronautic and space propulsion systems (51.2%): helicopter motors (No. 1 worldwide), civil and military airplanes motors, systems for space lancers and missiles, turboreactors for drone targets, etc.;
- aircraft equipment, defense systems and aerosystems (38%): airplane engine pods, landing gear, braking systems, electric wiring systems, etc. Safran also offers on board aircraft systems and equipment (primarily evacuation slides, emergency arresting systems, protective parachutes and oxygen systems, electrical power management systems, control systems, water and waste management systems and connectivity systems) and defense and security systems (helicopter flight controls, fingerprint-based biometric identification systems (No. 1 worldwide), inertial systems, optronic systems, tactical drone systems, etc.);
- aircraft interiors (10.7%): cabin interiors and seats;
- other (0.1%).
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: France (19.4%), Europe (24%), the Americas (34.8%), Asia and Oceania (13.2%), Africa and the Middle East (8.6%).