The new product, unveiled at the CANSEC 2022 exhibition in Ottawa, Canada, simulates complex multi-threat engagements between land, air, and naval forces.
Leonardo will now deliver the next stage of the Wildcat Integrated Support and Training contract, which confirms the next five-year period of the 34-year contract originally signed in 2012.
The Italian Army’s two AW169 basic training twin engine helicopters recently set a first important milestone by accruing 1,000 flight hours in operations.
AgustaWestland Philadelphia Corp. has been awarded a $159.4 million USD firm-fixed price modification from the U.S. Department of Defense to the previously awarded contract for the U.S. Navy’s Advanced Helicopter Training System.
Japan has also chosen to send its military pilots to complete their operational training at the Italian Air Force’s and Leonardo’s International Flight Training School.
2Excel and Leonardo are partnering on the Tempest flight test aircraft programme, in which the partners will overhaul a commercial airliner – set to be named ‘Excalibur’ – turning it into a flying laboratory for air combat technology testing.