Israel Aerospace Industries Signs Foreign Deals Worth US$100 Million

Officials for Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd. have signed new foreign contracts worth US$100 million. The contracts include a $30 million contract to upgrade a special mission aircraft with the company's ELL-8232 electronic support measure/electronic intelligence (ESM/ELINT) system for tactical and strategic missions; two contracts to supply maritime patrol radar, worth $32 million; and communication intelligence systems.

 

The ELM-2022 maritime patrol radar, developed by subsidiary Elta Systems Ltd., is in service in 25 countries, and operated on a range of aircraft, including the P-3 Orion, Bombardier Dash-8, Airbus Military C-295 and C-235, and Dornier 228, Eurocopter AS-365 Panther, and IAI Heron UAV. The company officials add that a multi-role persistent surveillance radar system, based on the ELM-2022, was recently delivered for use by a tethered aerostat (balloon) system to detect low flying and surface targets at the radar's maximum range by mitigating curvature of the earth and terrain masking limitations.

 

At the Pair Air Show, IAI will display the Barak-8 air and missile defense system, multi-mission radar systems, the Harop loitering munitions system, precision-guided weapon systems and electro-optical sensors.