Elbit Techniques Ltd. introduced immediately that it was awarded an roughly $220 million contract to provide precision steerage kits for airborne munitions to a rustic in Asia-Pacific. The contract might be carried out over a interval of 15 months. Beneath the contract, Elbit Techniques will provide the Lizard precision steerage package for normal objective airborne warheads. The Lizard is a laser-based precision steerage package enabling normal objective airborne warheads, of each Western and Jap variations, to interact targets, together with fast-paced ones, with excessive accuracy.
Bezhalel (Butzi) Machlis, Elbit Techniques President & CEO, commented: “There is a rise within the demand for our precision fireplace capabilities as excessive accuracy has grow to be an operational crucial throughout all area of operations. Armed forces across the globe are requiring options that allow environment friendly conversion of ammunition stockpiles right into a functionality that’s related in trendy warfare, particularly in mild of classes discovered from current army conflicts.”
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A household of laser-based and GPS precision steerage kits providing the choice of laser-seeker or twin mode (GPS/INS and Laser) steerage, the Lizard modular kits allow environment friendly interchanging of seekers and warheads, permitting odd normal objective bombs (each Western and Jap variations) to hunt and destroy all kinds of targets. Superior seeker expertise and monitoring algorithms allow the Lizard to trace the laser spot, even within the harshest circumstances, whereas guiding the bomb to exactly strike even fast-paced and maneuvering targets at prolonged ranges.
Elbit Techniques Ltd. is a global excessive expertise firm engaged in a variety of protection, homeland safety and business applications all through the world. The Firm, which incorporates Elbit Techniques and its subsidiaries, operates within the areas of aerospace, land and naval programs, command, management, communications, computer systems, intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance (“C4ISR”), unmanned plane programs, superior electro-optics, electro-optic house programs, EW suites, sign intelligence programs, knowledge hyperlinks and communications programs, radios, cyber-based programs and munitions.
