Leonardo DRS has successfully completed its first series of open-water demonstrations of its advanced maritime Mission Equipment Package (MEP) for counter‑uncrewed aerial systems (C‑UAS) naval fleet protection.
The DRS maritime MEP is a scalable C-UAS system based on DRS’s land-based mobile short-range air defence and C-UAS systems. It is designed to be mounted on a range of small uncrewed surface vessels providing remote ship protection at varying distances.
The initial demonstrations were conducted under realistic sea conditions and demonstrated the MEP’s detection, identification and tracking of a UAS threat and counter-surface ship tracking.
The DRS Maritime MEP is designed to be able to integrate active and passive RF, EO/IR sensors, 4G/5G electronic‑warfare systems and scalable kinetic or non‑kinetic effectors using its MOSA open system architecture embedded in the Leonardo DRS operating system.
The mission equipment package used in the open-water demonstrations included a suite of DRS sensors and command-and-control technologies including the BlackLab passive radio frequency (RF) detection system, STAG electro-optic/infrared (EO/IR) gimbal with advanced thermal cameras, and a tactical data management system using DRS’s sensor fusion operating system and AI to support fusion and target recognition using RF and optical modalities.
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