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Leonardo's sales of artillery aiming systems are on-target with €50M exports in 2017

Leonardo has announced sales this year of over 150 units of its ‘Linaps' artillery pointing system and over 100 FIN 3120 Inertial Navigation Units (INU), worth together more than 50M Euros, signalling a sustained level of interest in the company's artillery airming systems.

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Leonardo at Expodefensa 2017: presenting leading integrated systems to meet Colombia's naval, air, land and cyber challenges

Leonardo will exhibit at Expodefensa 2017 (4-6 December, Corferias Exhibition Center, Bogotá) to present its comprehensive portfolio of products and systems for land, naval and air domains

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Falco EVO surveillance drone touches down in the Middle East with first delivery to launch customer

Leonardo, at the Dubai Air Show 2017 exhibition, has announced the completion of the first delivery of its Falco EVO Remotely-Piloted Air System (RPAS) to its launch customer in the Middle East

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Leonardo to provide pre-flight simulation of radar threats for UK's new A400M

Leonardo has announced a contract, signed with the UK Ministry of Defence in September, to provide equipment that will simulate radar threats to the RAF's new A400M transport aircraft prior to take-off
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ESSOR (European Secure SOftware defined Radio) programme continues into the development of Operational Capability 1 (OC1) to improve effectiveness of joint operations

The joint venture a4ESSOR (Alliance for ESSOR) has been awarded a contract by OCCAR (Organisation Conjointe de Coopération en matière d'ARmement) to start a new phase of the ESSOR (European Secure Software defined Radio) programme, called ESSOR Operational Capability 1 (OC1). Mr. Lino Laganà, President of a4ESSOR, and Mr. Arturo Alfonso-Meiriño, Director of OCCAR, signed the contract in Bonn on November 2nd.
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Leonardo and Hanwha Systems team in South Korea for avionics technologies

At a ceremony held during the 2017 edition of the Seoul ADEX exhibition, Leonardo has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Hanwha Systems, one of South Korea's leading aerospace systems manufacturers, to jointly provide avionics and mission systems for the Republic of Korea and other international customers.
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Leonardo to provide Information Management software for Royal Australian Navy Collins-class submarines

Leonardo has been awarded a contract by the Commonwealth of Australia's Department of Defence to deliver Information Management software to six Collins-class submarines operated by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). The contract, called ‘Submarine Communication Information Exchange Management' (SCIEM), is part of Australia's Project SEA1439 Phase 5B2 upgrade programme.

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Leonardo establishes new site in Western Australia to deliver on major defence contracts

Leonardo continues to invest in Australia by opening a new site in Western Australia, through its subsidiary Selex ES Australia Pty Ltd.

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Leonardo-led team to demo ‘active armour' to protect British Army vehicles and their crews against current and future weapons

Leonardo has been selected by the UK Government's Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) to lead a team of UK companies in work that will help protect British Army vehicles against current and future weapons.
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Leonardo and Thales to demonstrate their next generation Threat Warner and Directed Infra-Red Counter Measure protection system with the UK Ministry of Defence

Leonardo and Thales are being contracted by the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD)'s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) to demonstrate their world-leading Infra-Red (IR) protection system in trials in early 2018. The companies are currently engaged in development activities to bring together two of their most advanced products, Thales's ‘Elix-IR' Threat Warning System and Leonardo's ‘Miysis' Directed Infra-Red Counter-Measure (DIRCM) system. Together, the systems will offer an end-to-end protection system for military and civil platforms, ranging from small helicopters to large troop transports/VIP platforms, against threatening missiles.
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