Targeting and Complex Weapons
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Lasers

Lasers

Leonardo is a world-leading authority in laser technology, designing and manufacturing around 60% of the international market’s high energy military lasers.

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Seekers

Leonardo is a world-leading provider of electro optic (EO) seekers to missile manufacturers, with more than five decades’ experience in research, development and manufacture of the capability. Since developing the first European EO missile seeker in the 1970s, the company has established itself as a centre of excellence for providing innovative seeker capabilities to customers around the world.

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Seekers

Payloads

Payloads

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.

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Targeting and Complex Weapons - news & stories

HALO – protection against the artillery threat

The military conflict in Ukraine has brought into sharp focus how land warfare continues to dramatically shape the direction of a war, and reiterates why ensuring an army has the technology needed to combat artillery threats remains absolutely critical.

Dragonfire – Laser fire power

Leonardo is working with MBDA, UK MOD and Dstl to develop a Laser Directed Energy Weapon that provides short-range air defence capability or close-in protection for naval vessels.

Stay on Target

From the F-35 Lightning II’s Electro-Optical Targeting System (EOTS) to the Modernised Laser Rangefinder/Designators (M-LRFD) on US Army Apache helicopters, Leonardo’s targeting lasers ensure end-users of pinpoint accuracy and operational advantage when and where it’s needed most.

Complex Weapons, Innovation & Technology Partnership

Leonardo UK leads the Electro Optics Seekers technical area of the CWITP. Sponsored by Dstl and Direction générale de l'armement, and led by MBDA, the research fund is open to UK or French companies and academic institutions to identify and develop innovative technology to enhance UK and French complex weapons capability for the 2030s and beyond.