Targeting and Complex Weapons

Lasers

Lasers

Leonardo is a world-leading authority in laser technology, designing and manufacturing around 60% of the international market’s high energy military lasers.

Seekers

Leonardo is a world-leading provider of electro optic (EO) seekers to missile manufacturers, with more than five decades’ experience in research, development and manufacture of the capability. Since developing the first European EO missile seeker in the 1970s, the company has established itself as a centre of excellence for providing innovative seeker capabilities to customers around the world.

Seekers

Payloads

Payloads

Underpinning Leonardo’s world-class Electronic Warfare (EW) capability is the company’s advanced Digital Radio Frequency Memory (DRFM) technology, developed over many years, which sits at the core of our products.

HALO – Beyond the horizon: protection against the artillery threat

The ongoing military conflict in Ukraine has brought into sharp focus how land warfare continues to dramatically shape the direction of a war, and reiterates why ensuring an army has the technology needed to combat artillery threats remains absolutely critical.

HALO – Beyond the horizon: protection against the artillery threat

Dragonfire – Laser fire power

Dragonfire – Laser fire power

Leonardo is working with MBDA, UK MOD and dstl to develop a Laser Directed Energy Weapon that provides short-range air defence capability or close-in protection for naval vessels.

Complex Weapons, Innovation and Technology Partnership (CWITP)

Leonardo UK leads the Electro Optics Seekers technical area of the CWITP. Sponsored by Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) and Direction générale de l'armement (DGA), and led by MBDA, the research fund is open to UK or French companies and academic institutions to identify and develop innovative technology to enhance UK and French complex weapons capability for the 2030s and beyond.

Complex Weapons, Innovation and Technology Partnership (CWITP)