Elisra unveils EW integrated Active/Passive Self-Protection Suite for helicopters at Aero India

Elisra has introduced its active and passive self-protection suite for helicopters and transport aircraft. 

The new system constitutes a new stage in the evolution of self-protection and survival systems for airborne platforms.

With this solution Elisra presents a new type of system, offering a complete and comprehensive RF-Laser-EO protection shell for Helicopters and transport aircraft.

The suite combines RWR, LWR, IR-PAWS, RF Jammer, laser DIRCM and Chaff/Flare dispensing functions, thus providing quick reaction time and effective responses to all types of threats.  

With seamless interoperability of all of its components, the system searches and detects threats, provides warning and provides jamming against airborne and ground-based EO, RF and laser threats presented by all types of air defense systems, including  missiles, MANPADS, ground-based fire, RPGs and others.

Elisra’s new system provides a level of performance that far exceeds the sum total of its parts.  The system's seamless integration of its myriad components ensures optimized performance of each, with a new level of effectiveness, all based on years of operational experience.  Able to confront and defeat even the most advanced threats in any environment, this battle-proven lightweight modular system, advances airframe survivability and mission success.

The new system offers a host of additional capabilities including pinpoint geolocation of threats from platform protection to protecting an entire mission, while providing comprehensive mission support.  Taken together, the systems' capabilities are unique among competing systems, offering not only survivability but actual support for completing a mission and maintaining air superiority.

Itzchak Gat, Elisra’s CEO said, “The new protection suite offers helicopters and transport planes a range of capabilities that improve protection.  The suite’s components work in concert to enhance a helicopters' role on a mission. Additionally, the suite enhances the helicopter’s attack capability. The operational success of the components comprising the system is well established.  In the new suite they combine to perform well beyond the individual capabilities of each.”

Source: Elisra