Land

Finmeccanica is a technology leader, meeting the demands of today’s battlespace and understanding the importance of national security and resilience. Land-based threats come from increasingly sophisticated enemies; and the integration of sensors – including human intelligence –
is essential for the provision of timely and actionable awareness of threats and friendly forces.

Our companies offer world-class capabilities, technologies, system and sub-system integration skills, and programme management and engineering expertise. The Battlespace Solutions team, led by SELEX Galileo, brings together the skills and capabilities of Finmeccanica companies and our Enterprise supply partners in the UK to deliver effective, cross-group tactical systems solutions.

We protect, connect and support people operating in many terrains, often in difficult and hostile situations. Our land capability spans light and combat vehicles, dismounted soldier equipment, rotorcraft, UAS and tactical ISTAR. Our weapon sights and day & night vision systems are
the choice of more than 20 armies worldwide and our advanced communications support over 40 allied nations in demanding theatres.

Tactical Situational Awareness

Users need the best possible coverage of their operating environment and to understand that environment at the lowest tactical level. This drives the need to bring sensor inputs together and interrogate them intelligently in order to enable timely and informed decision support.

The Theatre Network and Service Management provided by VEGA enables the UK MOD to understand, evaluate and improve the value delivered by in-theatre CIS.

A multi-role, stand-alone system, OBSERVER, developed by SELEX Galileo, provides 360 degree day and night surveillance to mobile patrols and at fixed installations. Quick and easy to deploy and recover, OBSERVER is military off-the-shelf and ITAR free. Enemy fire can be detected by the Hostile Artillery Locating System, HALO, which is in service with the British Army and the US Marine Corps. Designed and engineered by SELEX Galileo, it has been deployed in urban areas and mountainous terrain, in deserts and in cities. It locates mortars and artillery with exceptional accuracy, reliability and speed by detecting acoustic waves.

Some of the most detailed and sensitive thermal images in  the world are produced by Albion cameras. This technology, developed by SELEX Galileo in the UK, delivers significantly longer detection and identification ranges to the user, 24 hours a day, in all atmospheric and environmental
conditions, on static and moving platforms. Software applications, such as Sentinel, developed by SELEX Elsag, provide tactical communications systems specifically designed to meet the needs of highly mobile subscribers and dynamic networks. Our workstations and displays, such
as DRS Technologies’ CTD10, are capable of operating in all vehicle architectures, providing standard or bespoke solutions for use in complex environments, such as tracked military vehicles. In addition the company has supplied and now supports over 10,000 rugged computers in use by the British Army as part of the Bowman Programme.

Force Protection

Finmeccanica invests heavily in researching and developing capabilities to protect people, places and infrastructure, in military, urban and wider
environments. We are all too aware of the threats from radio-controlled roadside IEDs to military personnel and civilians. Our Guardian systems,
designed by SELEX Elsag, exploit our radio frequency expertise to give the user electronic armour against these explosive devices.

A rapid assessment of events, decision-making and response is critical in force protection. SELEX Galileo’s Vantage software integrates single, or multiple, sensors into a common environment to enable informed decisions to be made based on real-time and accurate data.

In the land systems environment, we have a proven track record of meeting a broad range of military and security requirements. We work in partnership with armed forces, coalition and partner nations, and civil agencies to offer through-life, innovative capabilities.