Indra is advancing the amalgamation of a crucial component for the progression of the defense mechanism that safeguards the Eurofighter Typhoon against adversarial missile strikes and radar detection. The firm will augment the Praetorian DASS’s bandwidth to enhance the aircraft’s capability to identify threats and navigate safely during its most intricate operations.
During the Royal International Air Tattoo (RIAT), the globe’s largest military aviation event, Leonardo, representing the EuroDASS consortium (Leonardo, Elettronica, Indra, and Hensoldt), unveiled the upcoming suite of enhancements for the Praetorian DASS self-defense system. This was accompanied by a static display showcasing the principal improvements proposed, including the bandwidth increase pioneered by Indra.
These enhancements will be exhibited to the Eurofighter Typhoon partner nations: Germany, Spain, Italy, and the United Kingdom, and later offered to international clients. Their advancement will bolster the aircraft’s survivability and establish the groundwork for the integration of the defense system with the Typhoon’s highly advanced E-scan radars. This encompasses the ECRS Mk1 being developed by Hensoldt and Indra, supported by Leonardo for the German and Spanish Air Forces, the ECRS Mk2 which is currently under development by Leonardo and BAE Systems with the contribution of Indra for UK Typhoons, and the ECRS Mk0, currently operational in Kuwait and Qatar.
Indra’s Defence Platforms director, Pedro Barco, emphasized that “Indra serves as the second-largest provider of avionics systems for the Eurofighter Typhoon and is the sole entity engaged in the enhancement of the self-defense system and the development of the two new radar versions, once more underscoring the company’s capacity to expedite the evolution of the next-generation technologies that European armed forces require.”
Alongside the enhanced bandwidth, the new Praetorian DASS will integrate an innovative advanced digital signal processing system, collaboratively developed with EuroDASS partner Hensoldt, and new signal processing algorithms, along with increased processing speed, capacity, and memory.
