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Embraer-Elbit Connection Grows Via KC-390 and UAVs

Elbit Systems’ Brazilian subsidiary AEL Sistemas will supply the self-protection suite and directed, infrared countermeasures for the new Embraer KC-390.

Elbit Systems’ Brazilian subsidiary AEL Sistemas will supply the self-protection suite, directed infrared countermeasures and pilots’ head-up display (HUD) system for the new Embraer KC-390 military airlifter.

November 11, 2011

Elbit Systems’ Brazilian subsidiary, AEL Sistemas, will supply the self-protection suite and directed, infrared countermeasures for the new Embraer KC-390 military airlifter, as well as the pilots’ head-up display (HUD) system, the companies announced late last month. AEL earlier was selected to provide the aircraft’s mission computers.

Important electronics content on the KC-390 demonstrates growing ties by Haifa, Israel-based Elbit within Brazil’s defense industry. AEL and Embraer Defense and Security have formed a joint venture, Harpia Sistemas, focused on unmanned aircraft systems. Earlier this year, AEL won a contract to supply the medium-altitude, long-endurance Hermes 450 unmanned aircraft to the Brazilian Air Force. In 2010, Elbit acquired Brazilian defense electronics suppliers Ares and Periscopio.

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