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ELETTRONICA

ELETTRONICA S.p.A.

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Elettronica nasce nel 1951 ed è oggi un’ azienda leader nella progettazione e produzione di sistemi di Difesa Elettronica.

 

Nel corso di questi 60 anni i Sistemi a marchio ELT hanno equipaggiato molteplici piattaforme aeree, navali e terrestri, di Forze Armate sia italiane che estere. Questo grazie alla capacità dell’Azienda di adattarsi a esigenze sempre diverse, di affinare tecniche e strategie specifiche nella realizzazione dei propri apparati.

 

Elettronica è cresciuta in completa autonomia focalizzandosi sempre più sul proprio core business, le contromisure elettroniche per la Difesa, ambito in cui la velocità nel fornire una risposta deve essere superiore alla minaccia individuata.

 

Elettronica S.p.A è la capofila del Gruppo Elettronica di cui fanno parte CY4GATE, specializzata in Cyber Intelligence, Cyber Security e Cyber Electronic Warfare, ed Elettronica Gmbh, società tedesca di cui Elettronica SpA detiene il pieno controllo, specializzata in soluzioni di Homeland Security.

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Information

  • Company Dimension

    Big

  • Share capital

    € 9,000,000.00

  • President & CEO

    Enzo BENIGNI

  • Chief Operating Officer & CEO

    Domitilla BENIGNI

  • Chief Sales Officer

    Paolo IZZO

For more than 70 years, ELT Group has been a world leader in Electronic Defense systems. Thanks to innovative management of the electromagnetic spectrum and proprietary technologies capable of optimizing its use, realized through proprietary and integrated technologies today the brand is an international Group capable of providing “multi-domain” systems and solutions, including Cyber, Space and Biodefense.

With the experience gained, thanks to participation in major European Defense programs including Eurofighter Typhoon, NH 90, FREMM, PPA, today ELT Group is present in more than 30 countries in the World with more than 3000 systems supplied and participates in the GCAP (Global Combat Air Programme) project, sixth generation avionics system, with partner companies from Italy, UK and Japan.

It is headquartered in Italy and is present in 11 countries located on 3 continents through commercial offices local law companies in the United States, Germany and Saudi Arabia and.

Also part of ELT Group are CY4GATE, specialized in Cyber security and Cyber Intelligence (with subsidiaries in France and Spain), E4Life, Italy’s first Biodefense company.

ELT Group stands for excellence in the design, development and production of Electronic Defense systems in the air, naval, land, cyber and space domains.
ELT Group stands out for its vertical expertise in EMSO (Electromagnetic spectrum operations), which over the years has been enriched with new assets (particularly in the cyber area) and operates globally in all domains, now also in space, for the implementation of solutions, services and systems dedicated to military defense and civil security.

The company collaborates nationally and internationally with leading companies in the industry on all major military platforms, such as the Eurofighter Typhoon fighter aircraft, the NFH-90 helicopter, the PPA naval platform (Italian), and the Italian-French Horizon and FREMM frigates.

The company is also a national ew champion in the Isanke & ICS domain under the trinational sixth-generation avionics project GCAP (Global Combat Air program). ELT Group makes proprietary technologies of extreme sophistication and technological level.
The products manufactured by the company are called surveillance (tactical and strategic) and protection (Active Systems).

Specifically, Surveillance Systems cover Electromagnetic Emission Search, Interception, Analysis, Identification and Localization (ESM/ Tactical ELINT), Radar Warning Receivers (RWR), while Defense and Protection Systems, cover Countermeasures (ECM) and ESM/ECM Integrated Defense Systems.
Topic of increasing investment is the EW Comm segment, including Cyber applications, on par with Integrated Infrared Defense Systems.
The flagship of the company’s offerings are the ADRIAN (Anti-Drone Interception Aquisition Neutralization) hostile drone counter system and the Dircm “Quiris” for countering threats in the infrared.

In 2023, ELT entered the Space domain with Scorpio, the company’s first payload put into LEO (Low Earth Orbit) for Electronic intelligence activities on unclassified data. ELT Group has, consolidated its know-how in electromagnetic spectrum management, applying it also to new markets and lines of business, adjacent to the Defense one, in particular to the Biodefense sector, to whose presidium it has dedicated the newco E4Life, established in partnership with the real estate company Lendlease.

To support innovation and technological developments, the company invests about 50 ML.annually in R&D between internal and funded investment.

Business

Air

Name

EUROFIGHTER

Detail

Praetorian is the EW Self-Protection Suite in which ELT is the Design Authority of the Electronic Attack component. Designed in close partnership with the EuroDASS consortium partner, it reached the 3rd stage of its development and it is undergoing an important DASS Enhancement program in order to assure the EW protection against new generation radar threat. Field-proven in several operations, Praetorian is in constant evolution and supported by ELT and its EuroDASS partner across the Air Forces users of Typhoon.

Business

Air

Name

C-SAR, combat search and rescue

Detail

Italian Air Force selected the ELT\572 Direct Infra-Red Counter Measures system to protect Hercules from MANPADS missile guided by infra-red emissions. ELT\572 is able to track the missile, once detected by the legacy MWS, and direct a jamming laser emission towards the missile head that is dazzled and diverted in its lethal course. ELT\572 is integrated in the platform and delivers its status and activity information to the pilot’s cockpit with the required rapidity and efficiency. C-27J C-27J

Business

Naval

Name

Pattugliatori Polivalenti d’Altura (PPA)

Detail

new family of EW Naval Suite as the most innovative proposal in the field of the Soft-Kill capability, conceived to fulfil the most stringent requirement of the Naval Electronic Defence both for Electronic Support and Electronic Attack employing the most advanced technologies. The integrated EW Suite provides RESM (Radar Electronic Support Counter-Measure) RECM (Radar Electronic Counter-Measure) based on GaN TRX Solid State modules and CESM (Communication ESM) granting effectiveness both in Blue Water and Littoral operation with an enhanced Maritime Surveillance and Situation Assessment through advanced ELINT and COMINT features, up to an innovative SEI algorithm. The ELT system installed and already in service is named ZEUS, designed and development on the basis of the ELT Virgilius family.

Business

Naval

Name

FREMM

Detail

The ELT EWS system installed and already in service is the latest development of the NEWIS system already provided for the Horizon Class and Cavour Carrier, tasked to provide both self-protection of the Ship and High Value Target HVT within a Naval Force. The EWS system is based on an extensive use of the latest technologies in the field of Active Phase Array Antennas, allowing outstanding performances in jamming and deception of incoming threats through its RECM Sub-System Nettuno 4100.

Business

Air

Name

NH90

Detail

ELT supplies the ESM systems for the NH90 NFH version helicopters and the RWR systems for the TTH version

Business

Air

Name

C27J

Detail

ELT supplies the ESM system and the DIRCM system

Business

Air

Name

GCAP

Detail

Global Compact Air Program for a 6th generation air system

Controlled company Elettronica GmbH Meckenheim Germany
Controlled company Solynx Corporation Salem USA
Share holding company C4gate S.p.A. Roma Italy
Share holding company e4life Milano Italy
Share holding company ELT Hub Carsoli Italy
  • ELECTRONIC MEASURE AND COUNTERMEASURE SYSTEMS AND EQUIPMENT
  • SENSORS
  • FOR AIRBORNE PLATFORMS
  • FOR NAVAL PLATFORMS
  • FOR LAND-BASED PLATFORMS
  • FOR FIXED NETWORKS
  • DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS
  • AIR DEFENCE AND SURVEILLANCE RADARS