Elettronica group is on board of this innovative platform with its Naval
Electronic Warfare new generation suite, which also proves the great
integration work performed together with Leonardo and Fincantieri. Since 1960,
Elettronica has supplied EW Systems to Navies of twenty-eight Countries in five
Continents, and its systems are on board of the major Italian Navy ships, as
Horizon and FREMM frigates and Cavour Carrier. The PPA "Thaon di
Revel" class is provided with an EW Naval Suite which can be considered as
the most innovative proposal in the field of the Soft-Kill capability,
conceived to fulfill the most stringent requirements of the Naval Electronic
Defence for Electronic Support and Electronic Attack, matching the experience
gained through the Horizon and FREMM programme with the continuous pursuit and
use of advanced solutions and technologies.
When developing the new EW suite, Elettronica has considered as
mandatory the task to provide a solution to fulfill at the best the new Concept
of Operation coming from the actual and future naval scenarios and to grant a
high operational availability and easy and economically sustainable support and
maintenance. The new EW Suite of Elettronica is characterised by an innovative
architecture that leverages the natural evolution of EW passive sensors
(RESM/CESM) and actuators (RECM) to achieve a fully integrated, compact,
optimised but still scalable solution. It can manage as well remote EW sensor
on-board of ASW/ASuW Helo and/or UAV, enhancing the surveillance
capability over-the-horizon.
The whole system is managed by a command and control unit called EWMU
(Electronic Warfare Management Unit) which fuses and synthesizes all the
information perceived both in the radar and communication field. The
technology is based on enhanced intensive use of the latest development in
the field of Digital Signal Processing, and solid-state Active Electronically
Steerable Array (AESA) technology.The Antenna Phased Array actuators are based
on the latest active phased array design using GaN (Gallium Nitride) T/R
modules, combining high performances with reduced dimensions and weight when
compared with the current GaAs (Gallium Arsenide) modules.