Airborne Systems: Senses working overtime

Leonardo is the UK’s largest manufacturer of the sensors and electronic systems which sit under the skin of the world’s most advanced aircraft, effectively acting as their brains, senses and nervous systems.

Protecting pilots, alerting air crews to threats and providing unrivalled situational awareness, our world-class engineering and technology informs decision-making and helps ensure that those in harm’s way come home safely.

Radar

Radar

Leonardo is the European leader in radar technology, with our Edinburgh Centre of Excellence building upon a 75-year heritage in this area. We design and manufacture fire control and surveillance radars that are exported around the world. We lead the consortium developing the Eurofighter Typhoon Captor radar, with our Raven ES05 AESA equipping Saab’s next-generation Gripen jets and our Osprey and Seaspray radars helping the UK and US Coastguards, and aircrews worldwide to save lives .

Electro Optics and InfraRed Technology

Leonardo’s Electro Optics and InfraRed technologies play a crucial role in providing total situational awareness, targeting and self-protection to armed forces on land, at sea and in the air. This includes being recognised as a global leader in the design and manufacture of advanced, high energy, airborne lasers, accounting for over 60% of the world’s demand.

Electro Optics and InfraRed Technology