Titanium and its alloys with fine corrosion resistance and specific tenacity are widely used in the fields of astronautics, chemical industry and so on. While the pipeline steels with low price and good mechanical properties are always used in petroleum industry. For now, composite panels are widely used in petrochemical industry, aerospace engineering and other fields, which can combine the respective features of the dissimilar materials together so as to meet the special requirements and save a lot of rare and precious metals. Previous studies have showed that the joining of titanium and steel suffered from two major challenges: one was the emergence of continuous distributed intermetallics of TiFe and TiFe₂ in the weld, which could cause brittle fracture with low strength; the other was the occurrence of residual stresses that were caused by the great differences in thermal properties between titanium and steel. This work is aimed to join the explosion-bonded TA1/Cu/X65 trimetallic sheets (titanium flyer plate with thickness 2 mm, copper intermediate plate 1 mm, and X65 base plate 12 mm) with Cu-based flux-cored wires by the tungsten inert gas (TIG) welding. The microstructure and mechanical properties of welded joint was characterized by using SEM, EDS, TEM, XRD and tensile and microhardness tests. The results indicated that the filler metals for each weld layer have obvious zoning by using solid solution phases and intermetallic compounds. There was about 150 μm width Ti-Cu reaction zone between the Ti weld and transition layer weld. The microstructures of Cu-Ag-Mo-Nb/ER50-6 transition interface were composed of Fe-based and Cu-based solid solution. The intermediate copper played an important role in reducing the high temperature residence time of welded joints so as to reduce the interdiffusion of Ti, Fe element. Consequently, the hard-brittle Ti-Fe intermetallic compounds were partly replaced by Cu-based solid solution and Ti-Cu, Ti-Ag intermetallic compounds with relatively good ductility and toughness. The average tensile strength of the butt joints is 507 MPa at room temperature, mainly of that of X65 was obtained. ERTi-1 weld metal exhibited higher hardness than Cu-Ag-Mo-Nb weld metal, and their microhardness values were 507 and 447 HV₁₀₀, respectively. In addition, the microhardness in reaction zone presented a slightly drop. The lowest values occurred in ER50-6 weld metal.