SGA14: New order expected for Hermes 900
Elbit is set to sign a contract for the eighth order of its Hermes 900 MALE UAV at the end of February to an undisclosed customer, a company representative has revealed.
‘It’s operational and this month we’ll sign the eighth contract,’ Elad Aharonson, executive VP and GM of UAS at Elbit, told Shephard at the Singapore Airshow. ‘We received the first Israeli contract in 2010, and this is now a new customer.’
Although Aharonson could not stipulate who the customer was, or if it was a Hermes 450 operator, he said it was ‘one of the empires but not the
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