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and electro-optic systems sales in
Europe, along with countermeasure
systems.
The company’s revenues rose by
8 per cent to US$5.97 billion, up
from US$5.51 billion in the previ-
ous year. The growth is attributed
to enhanced performance in aero-
space, C4I and Cyber, ISTAR and
EW, and land systems sectors,
reflecting increasing demand for the
company’s defence products.
Recently, Elbit Systems had
announced that it was awarded a
contract valued at US$660 million
to provide intelligence systems for a
country in Europe. The contract will Elbit System is aggressively mar- platform’s weapon station.
be executed over a period of four keting its latest COPAS-L, a new
years and includes an additional electro-optical (EO) payload for The highly stabilised COAPS-L
10-year maintenance period. ISTAR. COAPS-L is a miniaturised includes a medium wave infra-red
configuration of the company’s (MWIR) or a long wave infra-red
commander open architecture
Bezhalel (Butzi) Machlis, Elbit (LWIR) channel, thermal channel,
Systems President & CEO, panoramic sight (COAPS) that is in high definition colour day camera,
service onboard main battle tanks
commented: eye-safe laser range finder, and an
and armoured fighting vehicles automated target tracker, providing
“This significant contract (AFV) around the world. 360-degrees, long-range ISTAR
award is a testament to capabilities, day and night, on-the-
the edge and maturity of With small dimensions and weigh- move or stationary.
ing only 40kg, COPAS-L provides
our technologies as well light platforms such as light tactical In addition, COAPS-L features
as to the trust that vehicles, UGVs and surface vessels artificial intelligence video analytics
with AFV-level ISTAR capabilities.
customers place with The COPAS-L payload operates enabling automatic target recog-
our solutions.” either as an independent ISTAR nition and classification, video
motion detection and enhanced
payload or combined with the image processing. The COAPS-L
open architecture supports inte-
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gration with command and control
systems and with other onboard
sub-systems.
Israel Aerospace Industries’ (IAI)
Elta Systems, one of the most
prolific worldwide developers of
special mission aircraft (SMA) from
business jets and military aircraft
conversion, is proposing a range
of solutions including the ELW-
2085 CAEW, ELW-2090 AWACS,
P-600 AEW, ELI-3001 SIGINT,
ELI-3150 Multi-Mission Airborne
Reconnaissance & Surveillance
System (MARS2), ELI-3150 ISTAR
and ELI-350 CL650 aerial ground
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