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The Spanish Ministry of Defence will equip the EF-18 with 80 Thales Scorpion Helmet Mounted Cueing Systems (HMCS). These HMCS will be installed in the aircraft during the course of 2016 and 2017, once the operational qualification phase and air-to-air (A2A) and air-to-ground (A2G) tests have been completed. Scorpion is a 'force multiplier' system offering full colour symbology (navigation, intelligence, combat, etc.) for both night time and day time missions, in addition to target cueing in potentially degraded visual environments, therefore easily allowing target designation and allocation of points of interest with the aircraft's sensors. Thales will be responsible for the viability study, testing phase, integration with test aircraft, qualification support and integration in the fleet.