Leonardo’s Michelangelo Dome did not wait long to show what it can do, clearing its first air defense test less than 10 days after debuting.
The qualification trial featured the company’s KRONOS Grand Mobile High Power radar and the Italian SAMP/T (Surface-to-Air Missile Platform/Terrain) system.
Using its active electronically scanned array architecture, KRONOS successfully detected an aerial threat and guided a missile towards it from a distance the SAMP/T “had never before achieved.”
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