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Elbit Systems Secures $1.635 Billion Defense Contract With Undisclosed European Buyer

It taps precision strike alongside unmanned aerial systems within a digital C4ISR network embedded with AI, boosting the buyer’s domestic defense industry capacity.

File photo of a PULS system by Nicholas Drummond
Israel National News

Overview

  • Elbit confirmed the five-year program will unfold in staged deliveries aligned with the customer’s modernization plan, with the buyer’s identity and precise delivery dates remaining undisclosed.
  • The first delivery group comprises long-range precision strike artillery-rocket systems and a broad spectrum of unmanned reconnaissance and loitering combat drones, including personally operated models.
  • The second package comprises advanced ISTAR capabilities—signals and communications intelligence alongside electronic warfare—integrated intelligence processing, electro-optical and night-vision systems, upgraded combat vehicles and protective gear.
  • A Network Combat Solution/C4ISR suite will digitalize command-and-control from strategic army headquarters to individual combat vehicles, featuring the latest software, communications hardware and embedded AI.
  • Industrial cooperation measures are embedded in the deal to strengthen the buyer’s domestic defense manufacturing and technological capabilities through joint production and technology transfer.