Space Travel News  
MILTECH
Leonardo leads team for U.K. vehicle protection systems
 by Richard Tomkins
 Washington (UPI) Sep 13, 2017


Leonardo, Thales integrating missile-protection systems in Britain
Washington (UPI) Sep 13, 2017 - Leonardo and Thales will continue efforts to integrate and demonstrate their respective threat-warning and missile infrared counter-measure systems.

The continued work is being commissioned by Britain's Defense Science and Technology Laboratory and will lead to evaluation of the resultant system during trials next year, Leonardo said in a news release Wednesday.

The companies are currently working to marry Thales's 'Elix-IR' threat-warning system with Leonardo's 'Miysis' directed infrared counter-measure system.

The end-to-end protection system would be deployed to protect military and civil platforms, from small helicopters to large troop transports, against missiles, including shoulder-fired ones.

Under the contracts being issued, funding from the U.K. Ministry of Defense's laboratory will support lab-based and field trials of the integrated system in early 2018 and help evaluate its use for current and future U.K. air platform protection.

The result will be a highly capable, cost-effective and proven U.K. system that can automatically detect and defeat incoming missile threats to aircraft.

Elix-IR and Miysis are designed and manufactured in Britain. Thales and Leonardo will continue to market their systems individually but will also market the integrated protection capability.

Leonardo will lead a British team in the development and integration of active protection systems for army vehicles.

The U.K. government's Defense Science and Technology Laboratory selected the Italy-based company to lead the team, known as the Technology Demonstrator Program, Leonardo announced in a news release Wednesday.

As part of the program, the Leonardo team will demonstrate an operational prototype against "live fire" weapon engagements.

Members of the team, called the Incarus project, include BAE Systems, Lockheed Martin U.K., Ultra Electronics, Frazer-Nash, Brighton University, Abstract Solutions, Roke Manor Research and SCISYS.

Leonardo said armor by itself will not be sufficient to defend against the capabilities of future weapon systems, especially rocket propelled grenades and anti-tank guided weapons. A number of active protection system technologies have been developed and are available as off-the-shelf solutions but no single solution provides protection against all weapons in all environments.

The objective of the Icarus project is to develop modular protection systems that can be quickly tailored to function against specific threats or all threats during vehicle deployment.

The modular integrated protection system will integrate the best active protection systems sensors and counter-measures.

MILTECH
Mobile Camouflage System displayed at DSEI 17
 Washington (UPI) Sep 6, 2017
 Saab Defense Group will be displaying its business unit Barracuda's Mobile Camouflage System at the Defense and Security Equipment International 2017 trade show, the company announced on Wednesday. The Mobile Camouflage System is designed to be applied to vehicles in several varieties to provide infrared, thermal and radar masking protection against enemy sensors. It can be applied in d ... read more
Related Links
 The latest in Military Technology for the 21st century at SpaceWar.com

Thanks for being here;
 We need your help. The SpaceDaily news network continues to grow but revenues have never been harder to maintain.

With the rise of Ad Blockers, and Facebook - our traditional revenue sources via quality network advertising continues to decline. And unlike so many other news sites, we don't have a paywall - with those annoying usernames and passwords.

Our news coverage takes time and effort to publish 365 days a year.

If you find our news sites informative and useful then please consider becoming a regular supporter or for now make a one off contribution.
SpaceDaily Contributor
$5 Billed Once

credit card or paypal
 		SpaceDaily Monthly Supporter
$5 Billed Monthly

paypal only


Comment using your Disqus, Facebook, Google or Twitter login.
Share this article via these popular social media networks
del.icio.usdel.icio.us DiggDigg RedditReddit GoogleGoogle

MILTECH
MILTECH
NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Climbing Toward Ridge Top

 New Gravity Map Suggests Mars Has a Porous Crust

 45 Kilometers on the Odometry for Opportunity

 New tools for exploring the surface of Mars
MILTECH
Researchers create first global map of water in moon's soil

 Call For Ideas For Research On The Deep Space Gateway

 Analysis of a 'rusty' lunar rock suggests the moon's interior is dry

 Roscosmos Approves Luna-25 Space Station Model in Moon Exploration Project
MILTECH
Pluto features given first official names

 Hibernation Over, New Horizons Continues Kuiper Belt Cruise

 Jupiter's Auroras Present a Powerful Mystery

 New Horizons Files Flight Plan for 2019 Flyby
MILTECH
Hubble observes pitch black planet

 Could interstellar ice provide the answer to birth of DNA

 Inferno world with titanium skies

 Climate change for aliens
MILTECH
Rocket fever launches UB students to engineering competition in New Mexico

 Arianespace announces a new contract, bringing its order book to 53 launches across three rockets

 EUMETSAT signs with Arianespace for first Metop-SG satellite launch

 MHI to launch first Inmarsat-6 satellite
MILTECH
Spacecraft passes docking test

 China, Russia to Have Smooth Space Cooperation, Says Expert

 Kuaizhou-11 to send six satellites into space

 Russia, China May Sign 5-Year Agreement on Joint Space Exploration
MILTECH
Radar Reveals Two Moons Orbiting Asteroid Florence

 NASA-funded research at USC provides evidence of ground-ice on asteroids

 Sling-shot show for NASA spacecraft over Australia

 NASA's Asteroid-Bound Spacecraft to Slingshot Past Earth








The content herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, are Copyright 1995-2024 - Space Media Network. All websites are published in Australia and are solely subject to Australian law and governed by Fair Use principals for news reporting and research purposes. AFP, UPI and IANS news wire stories are copyright Agence France-Presse, United Press International and Indo-Asia News Service. ESA news reports are copyright European Space Agency. All NASA sourced material is public domain. Additional copyrights may apply in whole or part to other bona fide parties. All articles labeled "by Staff Writers" include reports supplied to Space Media Network by industry news wires, PR agencies, corporate press officers and the like. Such articles are individually curated and edited by Space Media Network staff on the basis of the report's information value to our industry and professional readership. Advertising does not imply endorsement, agreement or approval of any opinions, statements or information provided by Space Media Network on any Web page published or hosted by Space Media Network. General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Statement Our advertisers use various cookies and the like to deliver the best ad banner available at one time. All network advertising suppliers have GDPR policies (Legitimate Interest) that conform with EU regulations for data collection. By using our websites you consent to cookie based advertising. If you do not agree with this then you must stop using the websites from May 25, 2018. Privacy Statement. Additional information can be found here at About Us.