Auf den S. 17 - 22 wird das Konzept "Michelangelo Dome" detailliert vorgestellt - es ist eine Art "Abonnementmodell" für Luftraumverteidigung, eine "Gelddruckmaschine" für die Rüstungsindustrie (Als ob die in einem Konflikt verschossene Munition nicht schon teuer genug wäre ....):
https://www.leonardo.com/documents/1564 ... 3304159733
So we introduced our idea, which is the open architecture that makes it possible, different platforms from different builders to cooperate, to be orchestrated into a very effective air defence system.
So the dream of Michelangelo, the idea of Michelangelo, is let's transform the kill chain into a web chain. In order to make a web chain, you need all the platforms of all the countries to be interactive. So how can we make the different platforms built by different manufacturers talk to each other? And once they talk to each other, you take the data, you extract the data, you process the data, and the AI will make the decision.
The decision stands in country number 1 finds the threat. It's more convenient that country number 2, because it's in a better position, fix and then country number 3, we did some platform we'll track. And then maybe, again, country number 1 will be engaged because it has the highest possibility, probability to hit the threat. So these things is like operating in parallel. It's an orchestration.
You have two possibilities for that. One is that all countries buy the same platforms. So it must exist one country that sells platforms to everybody. It's impossible, to be very clear. The other country is the open architecture that we have proposed with Michelangelo, which is technically simple at implementation level, not that simple, but technically simple.
The idea is that you create an upper-level communication among all the platforms of the different countries, no matter, regardless of the builder, okay? It's Leonardo, it's, I don't want to make other names, but you know, any country.
So what is this? This a module that we call Michelangelo 5 for some reasons that interconnects all domains, including legacy assets. So ours, but not only ours. It's a communication layer. We do not enter into the electronics of the specific machine. No one will give you the secrets of the machine. It's just a top communication layer. And the data will be connected. So this should ensure multi-domain interoperability, inter-exchangeability, interconnection. It must be agnostic, platform, sensor, and effector agnostic. So it can be applied to any machine, existing machine. It is secure by design, made for expandable network, of course. And it enables the open architecture because you can integrate any defence system into the network.
So I know your question, nice picture, where do you make the money? Okay, the picture is nice. Believe me, this is very new, no one thought this, and I think now we have 20 countries that are in contact with us to see how we can make this. The money is very simple. You don't make the money on the hardware; you make the money on the service. You have to basically, you're selling a telephone, but the hub has to be paid. So you have a contract for service, for cybersecurity, for continuous update. You know the threats are evolving on a monthly base. Well, we're going to evolve on a monthly base too. And so this is actually the concept of the open architecture versus the rigid concept of a hardware architecture in which you buy my XX and my YY equipment, you put it there, and then you belong to the country that sold it to you.
Just for your information, I can't say more, but the first component of the Michelangelo Dome, which is this one, is now under construction for our friends in Ukraine. The first test will be there in a real environment. Delivery is supposed to be before the end of the year. Don't ask me more. You understand it's impossible.
So what is the roadmap of Michelangelo? In terms of deliverables, this is a very committing program for us. We didn't make it public, but at the end of ‘25, we demonstrated intercept and destruction in one of those simulations done with the army, with our military forces, intercept, and neutralisation of a ballistic missile at 76 kilometres from the target. Mid-26, we're going to demonstrate the first case war. Case war means that we will make it fly a mother aircraft, which will be our M346 light attack fighter governing 2 unmanned fighters. The fighters are jointly produced with our colleagues in Baykar and will be operated directly by the mother aircraft. Incidentally, you understand that this is not a 6th generation fighter. This is a standard fighter. So the concept is, while we wait for the 6th generation fighter, which is, by the way, the frontier in the next decade, you can already provide to customers that don't have the opportunity to buy very big systems, kind of adjunct that can be operated in conjunction with existing aircraft.
We will have the dead zone trial. This is coincident with the Ukraine program that I told you by November, hopefully ‘26. And then we will start the NATO exercise, NATO trials in 2027. In the meantime, we are developing all the command and control, the MC5. So our electronic teams and the cybersecurity teams are working full time on this development.
We are at the end of ‘27, beginning of ‘28, where we have the first launch window for the Guardian space constellation. Second window will be end of ‘28, beginning of ‘29. And then we will start opening to the other countries. So actually, besides the very urgent program with Ukraine, we plan from the end of this year to start having a transfer of that technology, of Michelangelo in companion countries, and of course, adaptation of the M5C module technology to different systems.
https://www.leonardo.com/documents/1564 ... 3646299257
