During the 2025 Paris Air Show in Le Bourget, Diehl Defence and HENSOLDT agreed to strengthen their partnership in ground-based air defence. Building on their existing, rapidly deployable air defence systems, the companies are focused on delivering top-tier solutions designed to address new and complex aerial threats. These software-defined systems are built using the latest technology, ensuring adaptability against fast-evolving challenges.
The air threat landscape has become increasingly diverse. Where aircraft and helicopters once posed the primary danger, modern air defence must now guard against a broader range of threats, such as cruise missiles, hypersonic weapons, drones, and particularly ballistic missiles. Diehl Defence and HENSOLDT are committed to tackling these multi-layered threats by advancing the integration of their defence systems.
The two companies have a successful track record of collaboration, including their work on the IRIS-T SLM medium-range air defence system, which combines Airbus’s IBMS-FC battle management software with HENSOLDT’s active and passive radar solutions. These systems are already in series production and operational deployment.
Future joint development efforts will focus on enhancing AI-supported target recognition in HENSOLDT’s TRML-4D fire-control radar, fusing sensor data from multiple sources, improving AI-driven situational awareness, and advancing mission planning and simulation tools, driving the next evolution of air defence capability.
