This could make a significant difference in the long run in the expense needed to protect aircraft from Israel's enemies and also for foreign clients.
In a rare recent interview, Elbit senior vice president of Airborne EW Business Lines Shlomo Livne told The Jerusalem Post that the Nano SPEAR (Self Protection Electronic Attack and Reconnaissance) was born when, “many customers reached the conclusion that they needed a much smaller platform,” to defend their aircraft from rocket attacks.
He said that Elbit absorbed this feedback and overtime worked on adjusting existing countermeasures against radar-guided air-to-air and surface-to-air missiles to operate through a much smaller platform, while also adding cutting-edge technology.
When referring to small, Livne said that the Nano SPEAR can be as small as one-eighth of an inch and weighs a stunningly light 800 grams as compared to its closest related predecessors which would have weighed 12-20 kilograms. READ MORE