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PARIS, April 26 (Reuters) - French defence group Thales has "good chances" of winning a more than 1 billion euro contract to supply sonars and communication equipments for DCNS's Australian submarine deal, its chief executive told Reuters on Tuesday.
"I am very confident about our own merits and that's because we are Australia's trusted industrial supplier," Patrice Caine told Reuters.
France has beaten Japan and Germany to win a $40 billion deal to build a fleet of 12 submarines for Australia, one of the world's most lucrative defence contracts, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced on Tuesday. contract winner is DCNS, a business that is state-controlled but in which Thales has a 35 percent stake.