Elettronica Group was at the Paris Air Show and displayed a wide range of solutions for Electronic Warfare (EW), cyber EW, intelligence, and the brand new generation of RWR.For almost 70 years, Elettronica has been one of the world's top leaders in EW systems, maintaining high standards of excellence in the technological development process with cutting-edge technologies in Mutual and Self Protection.
The Elettronica Group came to Le Bourget after an intense year of business activity: 2018 brought new orders for 220M €, compared to a total portfolio of 82 M €, of which 43% in the avionics sector. During the previous year, the company continued with significant R&D investments worth almost €11 million in self-financing, to which are added further 20M € of innovation initiatives as part of the acquired programmes. At the European level, the order for the Nato JEWCS (Joint Electronic Warfare Core Staff) programme has a relevant strategic value. Elettronica Group will be a supplier of JEWCS for 4 years, together with Leonardo for the supply of training systems for electronic defence (Land Training System and Maritime Training System). The most important part of this order is the upgrading of the NATO training base dedicated to Electronic Warfare.
Elettronicadisplayed its SISPROS, a new system family of interception, analysis and intelligence, at Le Bourget. Developed for airborne applications, SISPROS benefits from the most modern enabling technologies: Direct Sampling and Artificial Intelligence.The combination of those two technologies makes the systems belonging to this family fully digital, highly resistant to interference, adaptive to the electromagnetic environment and reconfigurable via SW to new environments or different platforms. The increasing diffusion of unmanned avionic platforms, both tactical and HALE/MALE, has allowed to focus the technological effort of ELT, supported by the Ministry of Economic Development, in order to be able to equip this type of aircraft, leading to the development of light weight and low-impact installation solutions. In line with the latest architectural approaches of ELT products, SISPROS systems are also multifunctional and multi-platform, since they can derive the Alarm (RWR) or Surveillance (ESM, ELINT) function only, as a spin-off of the main product, by reconfiguration SW. Finally, family systems are equipped with by-design interconnectivity features, supporting the ability to operate in network-centric configuration, contributing to the integrated and global vision of the scenario.
The latest development of the RWR category of Elettronica, the ELT/162, belongs to this system family. In addition to the warning one, the product performs a light ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance) function on the observed band, providing goniometry, detection, detection of received radar emissions and automatic alert in case of detection of specific signals. In support of ISR/ELINT missions, the ELT/162 can also be configured to provide detailed parameters of a designated transmitter.
The Paris Air Show 2019 offered the opportunity to present the ‘completeness’ of Elettronica's offer and its recent evolution. Significant geopolitical changes and new conflicts have reintroduced complex IADS (Integrated Air Defence Systems) to address the increasingly complex RF threats in the avionics environment, highlighting current vulnerabilities and raising the standards required in modern fighter aircraft protection.
Giovanni Carlini of Elettronica at the stand