Indian Defence Review

Elbit Systems – Hermes 900

Elbit Systems is a world leading provider of innovative, cutting-edge, battle-proven solutions for all sectors of the defence market. The Company will offer its wide range of technologies and capabilities at Defexpo India 2014 (Israel Pavilion, Booth 11.24.A), set to take place from February 6 – 9, 2014 in New Delhi, India. Visitors to the Company’s booth will have an excellent opportunity to view systems, live demos and media presentations of the Company’s core technologies in various fields of its activities: UAS, helicopters solutions, intelligence, military communications systems and radios, future soldier solutions and solutions for armoured fighting vehicles. Here are some of the systems and solutions

As a leading provider of high performance turnkey of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) solutions, including advanced air vehicles, ground control stations and intelligence management centres, Elbit Systems will display its Hermes® 900. The next-generation medium altitude long endurance (MALE) UAS featuring multi-mission, multi-payload capabilities with class leading payload carrying capacity.

In the maritime configuration, the Hermes 900’s payloads’ suite includes maritime surveillance radar, AIS, electro-optical multi-sensor payload and electronic surveillance systems, up to 350 kg. It has the endurance to cover vast ocean areas, and has redundant LOS and satellite communications links and radio relay, enabling the operator to ‘talk through’ to vessels at sea. The aerodynamic efficiency of the Hermes 900 enables frequent changes in flight profiles, enabling visual identification of vessels at sea in addition to the ISAR capability provided by the radar. Satellite communication enables it to fly to mission areas at extended ranges as far as 1000 nautical miles from shore.

Recognizing the extraordinary challenge of monitoring the Indian Economical Exclusion Zones (EEZ) and vast shoreline, Elbit Systems has teamed with Windward Ltd. – in order to offer a unique solution to the Indian Authorities. MarInt, Windward’s proprietary satellite-based maritime analytics system is capable of covering any area of interest, delivering insightful maritime domain awareness with diverse applications such as EEZ monitoring, illegal fishery monitoring, regional traffic analysis and port traffic management.

By leveraging multiple earth observation satellites and other readily available data sources, MarInt overcomes data overload and conducts multi-source data integration, applying contextual and geo-specific behavior and discrepancy analysis to generate actionable insights.

Elbit Systems – Dominator LD

For the first time in DEFEXPO in real-size at the Company’s booth will be presenting, side by side: Hermes® 450 – The backbone of the Israel Defense Forces’ UAS fleet, a high performance, deployable, mature, reliable, high capacity, long endurance, multi-payload multi-role tactical UAS, and Hermes® 90 – an expeditionary high performance, low cost, tactical UAS, affordable and runway independent, ideal for maneuvering forces, combining the performance of a tactical UAS with the robustness and mobility of mini-UAS to provide forces with high end sensor capabilities.

Designed to meet the full range of UAS tactical and strategic mission requirements, SIGINT Payloads for UAS include: EMERALD (AES-210), SkyFix and SKYJAM.

In the field of Military Communications Systems and Radios, Elbit Systems’ C4I software solutions for the infantry, together with decades of communications experience accumulated by Tadiran Communications, offers extensive, battle-proven expertise for the most intense combat scenarios. Alongside a comprehensive communication setup includes radio systems, a Future Soldier Solutions will be on display:

Dominator-Light Dismounted (LD) is a soldier centric solution, based on the vast experience accumulated by the Dominator® IICS solution, geared specifically for the tactical dismounted infantry soldier and Special Forces. Enabling full situational awareness via network-integrated information systems, this unique solution provides superior mobility due to its reduced size, weight and power (SWaP). The extremely lightweight Dominator-LD is the ultimate command and control (C2) solution for the individual soldier level.

Dominator-LD is comprised of Elbit Systems’ RAPTOR rugged, all-in-one wearable computing unit, the TORC2H –D command and control application and the highly advanced Tadiran PNR-1000A, a compact, lightweight, personal network radio. An add-on capability for a comprehensive on-the-move situational awareness picture is the JS Eyepiece handheld display unit. The new solution includes a load cartridge system for the fighting soldier, designed based on years of experience and lessons learned in fielding digital soldier systems in operational environments.

As a part of the Dominator-Light Dismounted solution, will be presented advanced electro-optic systems, as the CORAL-CR; hand-held 3-5 µm FPA thermal imaging camera with continuous optical zoom and the addition of an integral digital compass, GPS receiver and a laser rangefinder.

Elbit Systems – Mini-Music

Elbit Systems Land and C4I is a pioneer in Combat Vehicle integrated systems and a supplier of more than 7,000 systems and sub-systems for new Main Battle Tanks (MBTs), Light Armoured Vehicles and upgrade programmes worldwide.

One of the Solutions for Armoured Fighting Vehicles for display in the company’s booth is EoShield – a Vehicle IR Countermeasures system that provides “soft protection” against anti-tank ground missiles. The system provides a 360-degree protection shield for a wide variety of ground platforms.

Elbit System-Kinetics will showcase the Auxiliary Power Unit (APU) for MBTs and AFVs, which improves the crew’s performance and safety by reducing fatigue and minimizing exposure to noise, heat an vibrations, as well as Air-conditioning (A/C) Systems – light weight, compact A/C, offers digital control and communication connectivity to external control systems, with modularly designed to eliminate the need for designated configurations. The new A\C family offers a complementary central control solution – Temperature Control Box (TCB), which allows managing up to 4 air-conditioning systems in parallel. The TCB has an external TCP/IP communication port through which the A/C system can be remotely monitored and diagnosed.

In the field of Electronic and Information Warfare as well as Intelligence and C3 systems, a world leader for over four decades Elbit Systems EW and SIGINT Elisra will present for the first time in DEFEXPO Miniature Reactive Jammer (MRJ), a new EW system that jams, Remote Controlled Improvised Explosive Devices (RCIEDs) activated against armoured and VIP vehicles. The system, operates in high frequency ranges, is suitable for protection of any vehicular platform.

By Multimedia – ALL-in-SMALL™ is an integrated EW Suite, offering for the first time the most advanced multi-spectral DAS and ESM capabilities packed into a single LRU, delivering superior accuracy identification and location. Extremely compact in size and lightweight, the system’s modular design and open architecture offer multiple interface possibilities.

With its comprehensive airborne systems capabilities, the company can provide a single sensor or an entire cockpit avionic suite. As far as Helicopters Solutions Elbit Systems offers its unique MUSIC® (Multi-Spectral IR Countermeasures) family – DIRCM (Directed IR Counter Measures) solutions for protecting aircraft against heat seeking ground to air missiles. MUSIC‘s family of solutions provides aircraft with optimum protection against MANPADs. The heart of MUSIC is an innovative laser technology, which causes the system to emit a narrow laser beam towards an approaching missile, jamming its guidance system.

Unified Self-Protection Suite for Fighter Aircraft includes the most advanced multi-spectral DAS and ESM capabilities in a single LRU, delivering the highest DF accuracy, identification, and location of received signals, with very high probability of intercept (POI) and enabling swift response.

For the first time in DEFEXPO: BrightniteTM is a lightweight compact, cost-effective sensor, enables a new level of operational flight. It maximizes the ability to fly undetected, in all night and low-visibility conditions. Brightnite transmits high-resolution video to the Helmet-Mounted Display (HMD), allowing the pilot to fly in a head-up, eyes-on position.