of Wells, defence equipment suppliers
1995 Thorn EMI sold the Thorn Sensors Group to Racal, becoming Racal-Thorn Wells.
1997 Raytheon selected Racal-Thorn of Wells to supply the mission support system for its proposal for the UK armed forces' Airborne Stand-Off Radar (ASTOR) programme, based on the Bombardier Global Express. [1]
1997 Lockheed Martin selected Racal-Thorn Defence to develop and fabricate a radio-frequency countermeasures-techniques generator for use with a Raytheon E-Systems fibre-optic towed decoy to be carried by the British Aerospace Nimrod 2000 maritime-patrol aircraft.[2]