Collaborative Combat Aircraft

Leonardo brings a proven portfolio of uncrewed systems spanning decades of operational use, directly transferable as we evolve towards Collaborative Combat Aircraft.

Across the full spectrum from attritable systems to high-end endurance ISR platforms and rotary-wing, we’re doing it.

Leonardo is helping shape the future battlespace by delivering the technologies that connect sensing, decision-making and operational effect.

Leonardo offers a portfolio of combat-proven, exportable and SWaP-optimised payloads developed from decades of operational experience across air, land and maritime domains.

Leonardo's digital solutions provide an open digital architecture for Collaborative Combat Aircraft, capable of integrating sensors, autonomy, communications and decision support into a coherent operational system.

Collaborative Combat Aircraft are not a distant concept; they are becoming a reality today. As programmes evolve across the globe, the need for trusted, sovereign and interoperable mission systems will only increase.

Leonardo is helping define how future aircraft sense, decide, effect and connect.


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Leonardo plays a central role as part of a national endeavour to develop the UK’s future combat air system (FCAS) capability.

Leonardo is a founding partner of Team Tempest, focusing on the development of advanced defence electronics.

The Excalibur FTA – a key part of the FCAS programme – will act as a state-of-the-art flying laboratory to fast-track the testing of advanced sensors and integrated communications.

In the air domain, operational advantage increasingly depends on the ability to create collaborative and interoperable architectures by integrating manned aircraft, uncrewed systems, sensors, communications, artificial intelligence, simulation, and training.