Leonardo DRS has completed its first open-water trials of a maritime Mission Equipment Package (MEP) designed to protect naval fleets from uncrewed aerial systems. The scalable system adapts the company's land-based mobile short-range air defense and C-UAS technologies for small uncrewed surface vessels, enabling remote ship defense against aerial and surface threats.

The demonstrations, held in realistic sea states, validated the MEP's ability to detect, identify, and track drone threats while also performing counter-surface ship tracking. The trial package included the BlackLab passive RF detection system, the STAG EO/IR gimbal with advanced thermal cameras, and a tactical data management system using Leonardo DRS's sensor fusion operating system with AI-enabled RF and optical target re

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