![]() The Nano SPEAR was designed to complement the rest of the SPEAR family and enhance the company’s overall protection and communication jammer systems. Livne described Elbit’s approach as layers of protection, and the Nano SPEAR is “another layer,” he said. “If you’re talking about helicopters, weight is one of the biggest challenges we have,” he said. In addition to the compact form factor, the Nano is lightweight to ensure it can deploy on a range of aircraft, he said. Being able to dispense the Nano SPEAR without “any change to the platform” is a “very big advantage.” ![]() “To change the aircraft is a big issue,” said Shlomo Livne, senior vice president of Elbit’s Airborne EW Business Line, in an interview at the Paris Air Show June 21. Weighing in at 800 grams and not much larger than a cellphone, the Nano SPEAR is an expendable radio frequency decoy that uses an aircraft’s existing dispensing system and, once launched, acts independently to lure away hostile radar-guided missiles, according to the statement.Įlbit designed the Nano so that it could fit into existing countermeasure dispensers without requiring any modification to an aircraft, a company official said. The Nano SPEAR is an advanced, digital and miniature system designed to countermeasure against radar-guided air-to-air and surface-to-air missiles threatening aircrews and their platforms, the statement said. PARIS - Israel-based Elbit Systems introduced the latest member of its self-protection systems family at the Paris Air Show: the Nano SPEAR.Įlbit’s self-protection electronic attack and reconnaissance, or SPEAR, product line includes the Micro SPEAR for small installations, Light SPEAR for installation on medium-large sized helicopters and unmanned aerial vehicles and the Advanced SPEAR ECM Pod, currently on contract to provide active self-protection for the C-390 transport aircraft, according to a company press statement.
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