Leonardo DRS Top Attack Detection
Protecting against loitering munitions and a range of aerial threats. Leonardo DRS is supporting the U.S. Army with a radar-based “Top Attack” force protection capability.
If there’s one thing that Army leadership agrees upon, it’s the need for improved survivability of soldiers and machines against modern anti-tank weapons like the Russian Kornet and Chinese HJ-8 guided missiles, as well as Russia’s tandem warhead RPG-29 rocket propelled grenade that can bore a hole into a tank with a molten jet of metal.
“If you took all the bridging in NATO and put it together we couldn’t get a Brigade Combat Team across a 400-meter river," said the commanding general of the Army Corps of Engineers.
The general public is sometimes surprised to learn that the military is behind different types of research and working to find a cure for cancer is one of them.
The Army’s Next Generation Combat Vehicle (NGCV) program has ambitious goals that will require development of new technological capability that ranges from autonomous operations to advanced materials.
Government can’t stop to update systems, so modernization has to happen without interruptions.
In this era of new acquisition for ground vehicles, the Army continues to challenge industry to anticipate emerging requirements, develop required technologies, and field combat capabilities more quickly through rapid prototyping.
The Army wants its Next Generation Combat Vehicle (NGCV) program to provide a transformational leap in battlefield capability.