Leonardo DRS has successfully integrated its Maritime Mission Equipment Package (M-MEP) on an autonomous unmanned surface vessel, providing a new counter-uncrewed aerial system (C-UAS) capability designed to detect, track, identify and defeat UAS threats operating in the maritime domain.
“From small commercial quadcopters to more capable long-range UAS, unmanned aerial threats now represent a persistent risk to maritime operations,” the company said on April 20. “The M-MEP is designed to compress the time from requirement to operational capability by packaging detection through defeat into a single, scalable system that can be adapted across a range of maritime platforms — including uncrewed surface vessels – USVs.”
The system combines maritime radar and EO-IR sensors with integrated networking, the SAGEcore™ software platform for AI-enabled sensor fusion and command and control, and a platform integration kit suitable for multiple vessel types.
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