Leonardo, which has been present in Japan for over 40 years, is looking to extend its collaboration with the Japanese industry under the Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP). Leonardo is exhibiting key technologies, products and systems at the ongoing DSEI....
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Leonardo, which has been present in Japan for over 40 years, is looking to extend its collaboration with the Japanese industry under the Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP).
Leonardo is exhibiting key technologies, products and systems at the ongoing DSEI. The tri-nation GCAP, which is a partnership between the Italy, Japan and the UK, is the focus of the company’s attention at the show. GCAP will see Leonardo reinforcing its strategic presence in Japan. The company has an office in Tokyo and has built close partnerships
and licensing agreements with Japanese industrial partners such as Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Mitsubishi Electric, Japan Radio Corporation and Japan Steel Works.
The Global Combat Air Programme is a mission to create a sixth generation combat aircraft that will be at the heart of a future system of systems. Leonardo is playing a core role within the transformational collaboration. “GCAP is the standard bearer for the
technological revolution that will characterize our sector over the next fifty years. It will protect and strengthen the technological and industrial sovereignty of the partner countries, ensure prosperity, safeguard distinctive skills, create employment and boost competitiveness,” said Guglielmo Maviglia, Director Global Combat Air Programme, Leonardo. “It will be a great challenge, because the aircraft will form the heart of a multi domain system of systems, with the core platforms and other assets interconnected as part of an integrated whole. Elements of the system will range from unmanned platforms to advanced weapons, able to communicate across the five domains: land, sea, air, cyber and space”.
Leonardo is driving the development of sixth generation tactical sensing for the GCAP programme called ISANKE & ICS (Integrated Sensing and Non-Kinetic Effects & Integrated Communications System). Leonardo in the UK and Italy is developing ISANKE & ICS in partnership with Japan’s Mitsubishi Electric and Italy’s Elettronica. The new approach transitions from the traditional combat air model of individual airborne sensors to instead provide a fully integrated sensing, fusion and self-protection capability.
The study and evaluation of the future sixth-generation air combat system is already underway in Leonardo’s “Battle Lab”, where enabling technologies are being developed and tested. Leonardo has created a cutting-edge environment that combines physical systems, synthetic and immersive reality, to support its Battle Lab. The digital simulator reproduces what a sixth generation fighter cockpit could look like, where only the stick and throttle of an aircraft are “physical” and everything else is virtual/using augmented reality. This revolutionary interface will provide the pilot with an immersive experience. Leonardo is now looking to validate new operational concepts well before a demonstrator or flying prototype will become available.
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