PARIS, March 11 (Reuters) - France's Thales

said on Wednesday it had launched a new integrated air and

missile defence system, tying together existing capabilities and

incorporating artifical intelligence.

The SkyDefender system is a multi-layer defence dome capable

of countering all kinds of threats on land and sea and in space,

Europe's largest defence technology firm said in a statement.

The package groups the existing ForceShield system for

short-range threats such as drones, the SAMP-T NG system for

medium-range defence and the SMART-L Multi-Mission system and

other radars detecting long-range threats up to 5,000 km (3,100

miles).