A PORTFOLIO BUILT FOR THE AGE OF CONNECTED, MULTI-DOMAIN OPERATIONS

Leonardo is participating in Farnborough International Airshow 2026 with a broad showcase of defence and security capabilities spanning the air, land, maritime, space and cyber domains, positioned around a central thesis: that modern threats require not individual platforms but integrated systems capable of collecting, sharing and exploiting operational data across all domains simultaneously. The company’s UK presence — nearly 10,000 employees and a significant domestic supply chain — makes Farnborough both a natural venue for the group’s showcase and an opportunity to reinforce its credentials as a deeply embedded partner in British and NATO defence industrial capability.

Lorenzo Mariani, Chief Executive Officer and General Manager of Leonardo, said the company was experiencing a period of profound transformation in the international landscape, one that required an increasingly robust, innovative and responsive industrial capability. He said Leonardo was meeting this challenge by combining the expansion of its industrial base with ever-stronger international cooperation, describing innovation, speed of execution and strategic partnerships as key enablers for developing the capabilities demanded by today’s environment.

AIR DOMAIN: GCAP, EUROFIGHTER, TRAINERS AND THE FIRST LOYAL WINGMAN PROGRAMME

Leonardo’s air domain portfolio at Farnborough spans both current-generation operational platforms and next-generation development programmes. The Eurofighter Typhoon remains the cornerstone of the current portfolio, while the Global Combat Air Programme — the trilateral UK, Italy and Japan programme to develop the Typhoon’s sixth-generation successor — represents Leonardo’s most significant future platform commitment. The M-346 Block 20 advanced jet trainer and the M-345 basic jet trainer both feature in the showcase as core elements of a trainer portfolio with growing international market penetration.

Particularly notable is Leonardo’s presentation of Collaborative Combat Aircraft capabilities through LBA Systems, a joint venture established between Leonardo and Turkish aerospace company Baykar. The LBA Systems JV brings Baykar’s combat-proven uncrewed systems expertise into a NATO-aligned industrial framework, enabling Leonardo to present credible Loyal Wingman and CCA solutions alongside its crewed platforms — a combination that directly addresses the collaborative combat architectures now being pursued by every major Western air force. The Proteus fully autonomous helicopter demonstrator further extends Leonardo’s uncrewed portfolio into the rotary-wing domain.

THE MICHELANGELO DOME: INTEGRATED AIR AND MISSILE DEFENCE ARCHITECTURE

One of the most architecturally significant elements of Leonardo’s Farnborough presence is the Michelangelo Dome, an integrated air and missile defence architecture that the company describes as embodying its multi-domain vision. The system integrates air and missile defence capabilities into a scalable and unified architecture, connecting sensors, command and control systems, and effectors — including Counter-UAS capabilities — within a single ecosystem, enabling coordinated operations across all domains and significantly enhancing the effectiveness of responses to evolving hybrid and high-end threats. The architecture is designed to be sovereign-compatible while remaining open to allied interoperability, reflecting the balance between national security and coalition operations that characterises modern NATO procurement.

LAND, MARITIME, SPACE AND CYBER: THE FULL MULTI-DOMAIN PICTURE

Leonardo’s land domain presence at Farnborough highlights its Leonardo Rheinmetall Military Vehicles joint venture and the recent acquisition of IDV, building a portfolio that encompasses armoured vehicles, artillery systems, radar, helicopters and C4I systems designed to operate as a single integrated system. The maritime portfolio contributes next-generation sensors, Combat Management Systems, unmanned maritime systems, naval guns, guided munitions and radar, providing persistent surveillance and operational superiority at sea. Space represents one of Leonardo’s identified strategic growth areas, with the group presenting ambitions that extend to space surveillance, in-orbit services and the development of a proprietary Earth observation constellation with onboard artificial intelligence, in-space data processing and satellite-to-satellite communications, serving both civil and defence applications.