3 April 2020:Elbit Systems is awarded two contracts of USD 20 million to upgrade the capabilities of their Hermes 900 Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) to be completed in a year.
Hermes 900 UAS is performing a wide range of missions in the fields of Intelligence Surveillance Target Acquisition and Reconnaissance (ISTAR), homeland security and maritime search and rescue for numerous customers across four continents since a decade.
As per the contracts:
- The Company will integrate satellite communication systems and automatic takeoff and landing systems into the Hermes 900 UAS that the customers are already operating.
- This upgrade will advance these Medium Altitude Long Endurance (MALE) UAS to the latest configuration, enabling extension of the operational range to more than 1000km and performing the takeoff and landing autonomously and independent of GPS reception.