
ECA Group
Makes underwater drones, remotely operated vehicles, and naval robotics for subsea inspection, mine countermeasures, and research.
Exail focuses on advanced technologies for critical operations across maritime, defense, aerospace, photonics, and land civil systems. In maritime, it engineers products and solutions for operations from the surface to the deep sea, including navigation and positioning systems, inertial measurement units, geophysical software, autonomous and remotely operated vehicles, uncrewed surface vessels, remote hydrography services, and subsea tools such as acoustic releases, USBL and LBL solutions, and manipulator arms. Customers apply these offerings in renewable energy, oil and gas, maritime construction, seabed survey, and science and oceanography. In defense, the company delivers naval and land defense solutions that range from navigation and robotics to mine countermeasures systems. Its defense portfolio covers systems for mine countermeasures, naval navigation, land and air navigation and pointing, unmanned ground vehicles, and simulation equipment, along with inertial navigation, underwater acoustic positioning, mine and obstacle avoidance sonar, steering consoles, energy conversion, and degaussing systems. These capabilities serve more than 70 navies and armies worldwide. In aerospace, Exail provides solutions for ground, air, and space operations, including emergency locator transmitters, wireless access points, flight and maintenance training simulation, aircraft tooling, inertial systems for satellites and launchers, RF space equipment, motion simulation, tracking chains, and propagation channel emulators. In photonics, it offers optical technologies for laser, quantum, sensing, and space applications, including optical modulation, specialty optical fibers, laser systems, free-space micro-optics assemblies, quantum and metrology instruments, fiber Bragg grating and optical filters, and space-grade components. Its photonics applications cover lasers, quantum sensing, space, atom cooling and atom manipulation, directed energy laser, and high-energy laser facilities. The company addresses land civil systems as well, supplying navigation and pointing, motion simulation, and driving training simulation for civil engineering operations and advanced testing and simulation. Across all these markets, the distinctive thread comes from combining precision engineering, autonomy, navigation, robotics, simulation, and specialized sensing technologies for demanding environments from the deep sea to outer space.