Uploaded October 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Leonardo DRS’ high-power, multi-color laser systems provide best-in-class performance for defense applications. Based on our ground-breaking quantum cascade laser technology, these high-power laser systems represent the ultimate choice for aircraft survivability equipment, providing the following enabling capabilities.
• Size, Weight, and Power (SWaP): Previously, DIRCM systems were only installed on large aircraft that could afford to carry heavy equipment. The minimal SWaP of our QCL-based lasers enables, for the first time, DIRCM systems to be deployed on lightweight, rotary- and fixed-wing aircraft.
• Multi-Spectral Performance: Our QCL-based laser systems integrate multi-spectral laser performance from a single system, enabling the complete electro-optic threat to set to lightweight aircraft to be addressed from a single laser system.
• Inexhaustible Supply: With QCL-based DIRCM systems, soldiers can defeat an unlimited number of threats during their mission. Previously, IRCM systems were limited by the number of flares that could be discharged to defeat the threat before they no longer benefit from such protection.
• Reliability: QCL-IR high-power laser systems are ruggedized to military standards, having logged over 10,000 hours of environmental testing and end-to-end testing to ensure long-term reliability.
• Modular Open System Architecture (MOSA): Our QCL-based DIRCM laser systems have been designed using commercial technologies integrated into a modular architecture. This enables our systems to be continuously upgraded with “plug and play” components; as technologies mature and improve, they can be inserted seamlessly to provide upgraded capabilities.
This not only offers best-of-breed performance but can save a significant amount of future cost that would historically be required to develop, qualify, and deploy new systems to address evolving threats.
See more at: leonardodrs.com/what-we-do/our-solutions/advanced-sensing/quantum-cascade-laser-systems
#DRSatAUSA #AUSA2023 #OurAgility
Leonardo DRS’ high-power, multi-color laser systems provide best-in-class performance for defense applications. Based on our ground-breaking quantum cascade laser technology, these high-power laser systems represent the ultimate choice for aircraft survivability equipment, providing the following enabling capabilities.
• Size, Weight, and Power (SWaP): Previously, DIRCM systems were only installed on large aircraft that could afford to carry heavy equipment. The minimal SWaP of our QCL-based lasers enables, for the first time, DIRCM systems to be deployed on lightweight, rotary- and fixed-wing aircraft.
• Multi-Spectral Performance: Our QCL-based laser systems integrate multi-spectral laser performance from a single system, enabling the complete electro-optic threat to set to lightweight aircraft to be addressed from a single laser system.
• Inexhaustible Supply: With QCL-based DIRCM systems, soldiers can defeat an unlimited number of threats during their mission. Previously, IRCM systems were limited by the number of flares that could be discharged to defeat the threat before they no longer benefit from such protection.
• Reliability: QCL-IR high-power laser systems are ruggedized to military standards, having logged over 10,000 hours of environmental testing and end-to-end testing to ensure long-term reliability.
• Modular Open System Architecture (MOSA): Our QCL-based DIRCM laser systems have been designed using commercial technologies integrated into a modular architecture. This enables our systems to be continuously upgraded with “plug and play” components; as technologies mature and improve, they can be inserted seamlessly to provide upgraded capabilities.
This not only offers best-of-breed performance but can save a significant amount of future cost that would historically be required to develop, qualify, and deploy new systems to address evolving threats.
See more at: leonardodrs.com/what-we-do/our-solutions/advanced-sensing/quantum-cascade-laser-systems
#DRSatAUSA #AUSA2023 #OurAgility
