Military platforms face a raft of Radio Frequency (RF) threats, ranging from surface-to-air missile systems to fighter aircraft with anti-aircraft missiles. These pose serious dangers to a platform if it has no RF countermeasure capability. Today’s systems are difficult to counter and have an array of Electronic Protection Measures (EPM) at their disposal, while many older systems are now retro-fitted with modern electronics that have greatly enhanced their capabilities. The need for self-protection RF Electronic Countermeasures (ECM) is essential for survivability in contested environments.

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.

BriteCloud

BriteCloud is a world-leading DRFM off-board jammer Expendable Active Decoy, capable of defeating all major threat RF targeting radars and missile systems. By incorporating a DRFM-based jammer, BriteCloud can provide Doppler and Range obscuration that will defeat chaff discrimination techniques and allow a much wider range of threat systems to be defeated.

BriteCloud’s numerous major benefits include the ability to seduce the threat system away from the aircraft and produce angle break lock. Additionally, it has been designed to fit within a chaff or flare cartridge that is part of the standard equipment for the majority of military aircraft, therefore requiring minimal integration with the aircraft.