Countermeasures News & Articles

Several Leonardo technologies were trialled at the Formidable Shield 2021 NATO air defense and anti-missile exercise, including the Kronos MFRA radar, multi data link communications system and Mode-5-capable Identification Friend/Foe system

Romania will field the newest version of Raytheon's Patriot air and missile defense system that includes upgrades to the radar, the engagement control station and other command-and-control technology

HENSOLDT will replace the COBRA Radar Environment Simulator, the key element for testing and verifying the COBRA radar performance in a laboratory environment

Enduring Shield from Dynetics is a mobile ground-based weapon system that offers a 360-degree envelope with the ability to engage multiple targets simultaneously to defend against airborne threats

The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has tested its autonomous counter-drone system that can neutralize adversary drones using an X band radar that automatically senses and identifies unmanned aerial system threats

Using the Common Anti-Air Modular Missile (CAMM), MBDA's Sea Ceptor offers close-in and local-area air defense from threats such as high-speed manoeuvring missiles, attack aircraft and fast inshore attack craft

Rostec’s Central Scientific-Research Institute for Precision Machine Engineering has developed a projectile that creates an aerosol-dipole curtain which ‘blinds’ the enemy's weapon guidance system

Norway’s acquisition of five Thales Ground Master 200 multi-mission compact radars (GM200 MM/C) will provide the Norwegian and Netherlands Armed Forces with a common radar platform for further collaboration over threat assessment

Working with Defence Equipment & Support and MBDA, tlmNexus will use innovative data collection and analysis methods to optimise the operational life of each munition and maximise the time on the aircraft

Northrop Grumman has been contracted by the U.S. Navy to deliver an additional 18 Coyote Supersonic Sea-Skimming Target vehicles to be used to simulate anti-ship cruise missile threats

Elbit will supply the self-protection system for the latest addition to the NATO-owned multinational fleet, the Airbus A330 Multinational Multi-Role Tanker Transport aircraft