Electronic Warfare

In the UK, Leonardo has a rich heritage in Electronic Warfare boasting over 100 years of history and providing the latest advances in radio frequency technology to our military customers in the UK and further afield.

Under a strategic partnering arrangement (SPA) with the Royal Air Force and the Ministry of Defence’s Defence Equipment & Support (DE&S) and Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) agencies, Leonardo acts as the UK industry lead chosen to bring together onshore providers to provide value-for-money defensive equipment for the nation’s fleets of military aircraft, while boosting export opportunities and generating prosperity around the UK.

The company leads the consortium responsible for the Praetorian Defensive Aids Sub-System (DASS) currently installed on the Eurofighter Typhoon and the  company's BriteCloud expendable active decoy launched in 2013, represents the most significant advance in radar-guided missile countermeasures since the advent of chaff.

As part of Team Tempest, which is developing the UK's Future Combat Air System (FCAS) capable of operating in the 2035+ environment, Leonardo will be responsible for all-aspect broadband Electronic Warfare capabilities on the new platform.

Air Platform Protection – Next Generation Air Survivability

Leonardo UK's highly-skilled scientists and engineers are dedicated to delivering high-tech protective electronics for UK Armed Forces aircraft. These include RAF Typhoons, Shadow R1 surveillance aircraft, E-7 Wedgetail airborne early warning aircraft and the majority of the UK's helicopter fleet including the AW159 Wildcat, AW101 Merlin and Apache AH-64E.

Air Platform Protection – Next Generation Air Survivability

BriteCloud – Proven Pilot Protection

BriteCloud – Proven Pilot Protection

For over 100 years, Leonardo has designed world-leading airborne electronic warfare solutions that have helped save lives of aircrews on operations around the world. Our BriteCloud decoy represents the most significant advance in radar-guided missile countermeasures since the advent of chaff.

Miysis DIRCM – Bringing You Home Safe

As threats to military aircraft have proliferated and accelerated over time, so has Leonardo’s expertise in developing countermeasures that protect fast jets, transport aircraft, helicopters and their crews around the globe. Discover how Leonardo's Miysis DIRCM, the world’s most advanced operational Directed Infrared Countermeasures system, is already protecting airborne systems for UK and NATO end-users.

Miysis DIRCM – Bringing You Home Safe

The Eye of the Typhoon

The Eye of the Typhoon

Leonardo is a Eurofighter Typhoon consortium partner, providing the Royal Air Force with its multi-role combat air capability. We are responsible for delivering over 60% of the aircraft’s on-board avionics including leading the consortia that develop both the Radar and Defensive Aid Sub-System.

Supporting UK MoD pre-flight threat simulation equipment

Leonardo provides in-service support for the MoD's pre-flight threat simulation equipment, currently being used on the Typhoon, Tornado, Merlin, Wildcat, Chinook and C130J platforms.

Supporting UK MoD pre-flight threat simulation equipment

Leonardo Training Academies

Leonardo Training Academies

Leonardo offers a combination of tools, expertise and training to enable our UK armed forces and their international allies to gain mission advantage in the digital battlespace.

Newton

Newton provides physics-based EW modelling and simulation tools for air, land and naval engagements between platforms equipped with integrated defensive aid suites, a combat management or a self-protection suite defending against multiple multi-mode threats. These enable users to evaluate and assess attack and protection measures and how they can be utilized during an engagement with a kinetic effector.

Newton

GCAP – Developing the future of combat air

GCAP – Developing the future of combat air

Leonardo is a founding partner of Team Tempest, alongside the UK MOD, BAE Systems, Rolls Royce and MBDA UK. The team is working at pace to develop the technologies, knowledge, skills and expertise necessary to see a new combat air system go into service in 2035. In 2022, the UK-Japan-Italy Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP) was established.

Leonardo signs €180m deal to upgrade NATO's EW training equipment

Leonardo is providing new electronic warfare training equipment for the NATO Joint Electronic Warfare Core Staff (JEWCS), with equipment delivered in tranches from our Electronic Warfare (EW) centre of excellence in Luton, UK.

Leonardo signs €180m deal to upgrade NATO's EW training equipment