IAI gets $550m ‘mega contract’ with Asian country for air defense system

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15:25 | 10/30/18

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ISRAEL’S IAI TO SUPPLY AIR DEFENSE SYSTEMS TO INDIA IN $1.3 BILLION DEALS
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By SETH J. FRANTZMAN

LRSAM delivery ceremony. (photo credit: DEFENSE MINISTRY/IAI)

Israel becoming one of the largest arms suppliers to India, which has spent some $100 billion on defense in the past decade.

Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) announced two deals in a week with Indiato supply anti-aircraft air defense for the army and supply missile defense for the Indian navy. Together the deals are worth $1.3 billion and are part of the increasing cooperation Israel’s defense industry has with India.

On October 29, IAI announced a $550 million “mega-deal” to provide its Sky Capture command and control system for anti-aircraft defense for an army in Asia. The technology uses sensors and detection radars made by IAI and ELTA systems. The system is designed to provide short-range aerial defense for army units, such as bases and headquarters, and can be used with 40mm guns or eventually with MANPADs, or missiles, or other technologies.

The second deal worth $770 million was signed on October 24 and foresees Israel developing LRSAM missile defense for seven ships in the navy. The contract is with India’s Bharat Electronics Limited, a local Indian contractor. Boaz Levy, IAI’s Executive Vice-President and General Manager of Systems, Missiles and Space Group, said the contracts illustrates how IAI has one of the best capabilities in the world and that the current deal is part of increasing cooperation in India. “We are speaking the same language now," he said, describing close work with local contractors on the programs. As Israel becomes one of the largest arms suppliers to India, it increasingly plays a key role in upgrading various systems for India’s armed forces, combining the high tech that Israel has with local contractors and know how.


Israel’s IAI to supply air defense systems to India in $1.3 billion deals

 

[Nilgiri]

Interesting video (Indian Army mentioned as the likely customer):

 

[Ashwin]

Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), the nation’s largest aerospace and defense company, said Monday it has won a tender for a “mega-contract” worth $550 million with the army of an Asian country to provide its “Sky Capture” Air Defense system.

Sky Capture is a command and control platform, which transforms the customer’s existing air defense systems into “highly accurate and effective”ones, with advanced command and control capabilities as well as information based on multiple sensors, including advanced fire control and detection radars, electro-optical sensors all made by IAI and its subsidiary ELTA Systems.

The command and control system provides accurate target data for the interceptors and manages the threat and firing detection in an optimal manner, based on the target type, IAI said in a statement.

The system developed at IAI provides short-range aerial defense for army forces, headquarters, bases and strategic assets against a broad range of airborne threats through cannon control, the statement said. IAI competed against “several defense leaders” in the tender, the Israeli company said.

Boaz Levi, IAI’s executive vice president and general manager of Systems, Missiles & Space Group, said that “Sky Capture combines several aerial interception methodologies, reflecting the extensive capabilities of IAI’s air defense know how. The system sold under this contract uses air defense cannons and is also designed, if needed, to manage short-range missiles and laser interception systems.”

The deal comes on the heels of another contract, announced last week, worth $777 million with India to supply a maritime version of the Barak-8 missile defense system.

IAI gets $550m ‘mega contract’ with Asian country for air defense system

 

[Ashwin]

IAI's Sky Capture fire air defense control system is an integrated system comprising the ELM-2106 ATAR (radar) seen on the right, and the ELM-2106BF fire control unit seen on the left. The entire system is mounted on a trailer and includes the sensors, command unit, communications power generation and environmental control systems

The system integrates several sensors, including target acquisition and fire control radar systems, including the ELM-2106 Advanced Tactical Air-Defense Radar (ATAR). This 4th Generation 3D is optimized to detect targets with low radar cross-section, such as low-velocity UAVs and ultralights that can be detected from 40-60 km. The ATAR radar can detect helicopters at 40 km, and classify such targets by type, according to the radar signature returned from the rotor blade returns. A solid-state L-Band medium-range radar. This radar combines rotation in azimuth with electronic scanning in elevation.

The system also combines an electro-optical (EO) payload for passive track and target identification. System. For the Sky Capture solution ATAR is associated with a separate fire control radar providing effective target engagement with continuous search and tracking of multiple targets. The solution provides accurate target data for the weapons associated with the system and manages to fire parameters to ensure the highest probability of target kill, according to the target type. Typical weapons controlled by the system are the Bofors L-70 cannons and ZSU-23/2 automatic guns.

 

[_Anonymous_]

Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), the nation’s largest aerospace and defense company, said Monday it has won a tender for a “mega-contract” worth $550 million with the army of an Asian country to provide its “Sky Capture” Air Defense system.

Sky Capture is a command and control platform, which transforms the customer’s existing air defense systems into “highly accurate and effective”ones, with advanced command and control capabilities as well as information based on multiple sensors, including advanced fire control and detection radars, electro-optical sensors all made by IAI and its subsidiary ELTA Systems.

The command and control system provides accurate target data for the interceptors and manages the threat and firing detection in an optimal manner, based on the target type, IAI said in a statement.

The system developed at IAI provides short-range aerial defense for army forces, headquarters, bases and strategic assets against a broad range of airborne threats through cannon control, the statement said. IAI competed against “several defense leaders” in the tender, the Israeli company said.

Boaz Levi, IAI’s executive vice president and general manager of Systems, Missiles & Space Group, said that “Sky Capture combines several aerial interception methodologies, reflecting the extensive capabilities of IAI’s air defense know how. The system sold under this contract uses air defense cannons and is also designed, if needed, to manage short-range missiles and laser interception systems.”

The deal comes on the heels of another contract, announced last week, worth $777 million with India to supply a maritime version of the Barak-8 missile defense system.

IAI gets $550m ‘mega contract’ with Asian country for air defense system

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