Aircraft
Germany Offered Manned Israeli Substitute for Euro Hawk Sigint System
The proposal is a Sigint conversion of a Bombardier Global 5000.
This model of a proposed Israeli solution to the German requirement for a Sigint platform was displayed by ESG at the ILA Berlin airshow. (Photo: Chris Pocock)
This model of a proposed Israeli solution to the German requirement for a Sigint platform was displayed by ESG at the ILA Berlin airshow. (Photo: Chris Pocock)

German aviation and electronic system house ESG has proposed a new Israeli Sigint aircraft as a replacement for Germany’s cancelled Euro Hawk Sigint UAV. ESG displayed a large model of IAI-Elta’s conversion of the Bombardier Global 5000 on its stand at the ILA Berlin airshow this week. The Luftwaffe has been told to evaluate five alternatives to the Euro Hawk, but this is the only one that would abandon development of the Integrated Signals Intelligence System (ISIS) Sigint that Airbus Defence & Space was developing for the Euro Hawk.