December 17, 2020
After three years of testing and competition with 15 competitors, Elbit won a tender to supply software-based tactical communication systems from the E-LynX family. In a month it received military contracts in Europe amounting to about half a billion dollars
Elbit Systems (Elbit) Announced that it had won a $ 338 million contract to supply an E-LynX mobile-based mobile tactical radio network for the Swiss Army. The contract will run for six years and was carried out as part of the Swiss Army’s digitization program. The winning bid came after field tests and competitive comparisons made by the Purchasing Manager at the Swiss Ministry of Defense and by the Swiss Army. Elbit President and CEO Bezalel Machlis said the win reflects growing recognition of this technology among European armies.
This is a particularly tough tender that was conducted over a number of years and was competed by 15 companies from all over the world. The field test turtle also included technological tests under laboratory conditions. E-LynX technology for digital military communications enables broadband communications to transmit video, text and voice transmissions securely and reliably using lightweight end devices and an intuitive user interface.
Each device is also a relay
The E-LynX family includes devices installed in combat vehicles and mobile devices designed for infantry use. It includes the capabilities of setting up a Mobile Ad-Hoc Networking on the battlefield. The use of software-defined radio provides capabilities Establish a reliable and secure battlefield connection, as it includes digital means of dealing with interruptions.For example, error correction algorithms reduce the chance of losing communication packets.
The systems make it possible to track the location of the forces in the field using radio waves. The family includes routing and transmission capabilities, which make it possible to utilize each unit as a building block of a unified communications system that has a much larger range than the capabilities of each device individually. Elbit recently launched the E-LynX-Sat plug-in, which is a portable device weighing 1 kg that allows the field units to be connected to the satellite even at the infantry level. This device was tested as part of British Army maneuvers held this year.
Elbit supplies radios from the E-LynX family to the IDF and the armies of Sweden, the Netherlands and Germany. In November 2020, it won a tender for the supply of radios from this family for the battalion level in the Spanish army. More than half a billion dollars.
These include: a $ 50 million contract for the supply of equipment to the digital soldier in the Netherlands (including E-LynX devices), a $ 27 million contract for avionics systems for the Romanian Army’s training aircraft, and a $ 96 million contract for helicopter pilot simulators Of the Air Force, Land and Sea of a country in Europe.
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