Leonardo launches Michelangelo Dome as multi-domain solution to counter emerging threats

On 27 November 2025 Italy’s Leonardo unveiled the ‘Michelangelo Dome’: a new, advanced integrated defence system “designed to counter emerging threats in an increasingly complex global landscape”.

Launched at the Officine Farneto complex in Rome, the project is being developed to protect critical infrastructure, sensitive urban areas, territories and assets of national and European interest through a modular, open, scalable and multi-domain solution. The initiative forms part of Leonardo’s broader strategy to consolidate its position as a leading player in the field of global security.

Rather than being a standalone system, Michelangelo Dome is a comprehensive architecture that brings together next-generation land, naval, air and space sensors, cyber-defence platforms, command-and-control systems, artificial intelligence and co-ordinated effectors. The platform creates a dynamic security dome capable of detecting, tracking and neutralising threats even in the event of large-scale, co-ordinated attacks, across all operational domains: aerial and missile threats (including hypersonic missiles and drone swarms), surface and subsurface attacks at sea, and hostile ground forces.

The concept uses advanced data fusion from multiple sensors and the use of predictive algorithms to anticipate hostile activity, optimise operational responses and automatically co-ordinate the most effective countermeasures.

“With Michelangelo,” said Roberto Cingolani, Leonardo’s CEO and general manager, at the launch, “Leonardo reaffirms its commitment to developing solutions that safeguard citizens, institutions and infrastructure by combining advanced technology, a systemic vision and strong industrial capabilities. In a world where threats evolve rapidly and become ever more complex – and where defending is costlier than attacking – defence must innovate, anticipate and embrace international co-operation.”

With the advent of the Michelangelo Dome, “Leonardo strengthens its role as a European benchmark in multi-domain security and contributes to the goals of strategic autonomy, technological resilience and greater integration of European and NATO defence capabilities,” the company stated.