Leonardo is equipping the Danish army’s Piranha fleet and Caesar artillery systems with modern vehicle camera systems. This means that the vehicles can be used day and night with full protection.
As Leonardo announced at DSEI 2023, the company has been awarded a contract worth around ten million euros with the Danish Defense Acquisition and Logistics Organization (DALO) to equip more than 300 vehicles with integrated vehicle camera systems, including the Piranha V 8×8 armoured personnel carriers (APCs) from Mowag and the Caesar 8×8 artillery platform. The technology provides the crews with better visibility and improved situational awareness. The order was previously placed in December 2022 under the framework contract signed between Leonardo and DALO in 2016 for the supply of modular vehicle deployment systems for the Royal Danish Army’s entire land vehicle fleet, with each system tailored to the specific vehicle type and role. The new contract covers 309 Piranha V vehicles, including infantry, engineer, repair, mortar, command post and medical variants, as well as the Caesar 8×8 ART (artillery) platform and other fleet spares. Deliveries have already started. The Leonardo vehicle camera system consists of a cross-platform modular design that includes high-resolution infrared (IR) night vision cameras for the driver (thermal/low light cameras), daylight cameras, user displays, IR illuminators and other video sources for the platform. The system complies with the UK-led Generic Vehicle Architecture (GVA) standard, which uses common infrastructure and system control interfaces. This enables the use of external inputs, such as video sources, from other sensors around the vehicle and vehicles. https://militaeraktuell.at/die-fuehrungsausbildung-beim-heer-ist-gold-wert/ Since 2016, Leonardo has already supplied more than 700 integrated camera systems for Royal Danish Army vehicles. These include the JCB High Mobility Engineer Excavator (HMEE), which the army first deployed in January 2022, as well as the Armored Recovery Vehicle (ARV) and the Armored Engineer Vehicle (AEV) Wisent. The technology has also been used to support NATO allies in operations around the world. The Piranha and HMEE’s integrated vehicle camera systems both incorporate the latest version of Leonardo’s DNVS (Driver’s Night Vision System). This means that vehicle crews are not only protected from external threats, but can also operate at night and in poor visibility conditions. Leonardo’s latest generation camera systems build on the company’s decades of experience in providing situational awareness systems to the UK Armed Forces, equipping vehicles such as Mastiff, Warrior, Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS), Warthog, Viking, Ridgback, Wolfhound and Challenger.
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