Sea-Air-Space 2019: Leonardo features a wide range of naval technologies.

During the US Navy League's annual Sea-Air-Space Exposition, which is the largest maritime exposition in the U.S., taking place from 6 to 8 May, Leonardo's booth is featuring a wide range of technologies with proven performance for naval operations.

The SAMDIS Synthetic Aperture Sonar designed and manufactured by Leonardo (Picture Source: Leonardo)

Among the products that the company is displaying are power and propulsion systems, electronics, sonar systems, and aviation technologies. Some of these technologies are even designed to be used by the U.S. Navy for its future FFG(X) frigate programme.

One noticeable product is the Hybrid Electric Drive / Electric Propulsion Motors (which could be fitted on the future frigates). These are drive machines that include gear mounted and shaft mounted solutions to fit operational needs and provide flexibility in engine room design.

Another one is the SAMDIS (standing for Synthetic Aperture & Mine Detection Imaging Sonar) which provides a perfect Synthetic Aperture Sonar (SAS) capability in a solution scalable to any Two-body, UUV, LDUUV, or XLUUV. It is the fourth generation SAS offering multi-aspect processing of ultra-high resolution SAS imagery, and enabling single sweep detection and classification.