Platform Protection
Leonardo has more than a century's heritage and expertise designing and producing platform protection solutions for air, land and sea, keeping aircrews and their aircraft, soldiers and vehicles, and naval personnel and their vessels safe around the world.

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

Modular Integrated Protection System (MIPS)

Modular Integrated Protection System (MIPS)

The MIPS programme is the UK Ministry of Defence’s approach for the development of a Sovereign Active Protection Capability for the UK Military Vehicle Fleet. As Principal Systems Integrator on MIPS, Leonardo is leading a team of defence companies tasked with improving the survivability and protection of Land Armoured Vehicles in the British Army.