Israeli UAS Market Shifts From Platforms To Networks, Gap-fillers

Steve Trimble January 23, 2020
Israeli flying drone
Israel started using fixed-wing loitering munitions in the 1990s, but the technology continues to evolve, including Rafael’s newly launched vertical-takeoff-and-landing Firefly.
Credit: Rafael
A $153 million contract award announced by Elbit Systems on Oct. 6 last year did not seem obviously significant. A Southeast Asian country had ordered a package of the Israeli company’s unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), including thousands of THOR mini-UAS, “scores” of tactical Skylark UAS and the...
Steve Trimble

Steve covers military aviation, missiles and space for the Aviation Week Network, based in Washington DC.

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