Haifa, Israel, 17, October 2019 - Elbit Systems was selected by the Prime Contractor, Rheinmetall Canada, to supply Off board Electronic Counter Measure (ECM) Payload for the Hammerhead Unmanned Surface Vessel (USV) of the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) as part of its Naval Off-Board Anti-Missile Active Decoy (NOMAD) Program.
Pietro Mazzei, Vice President, Electronic Solutions – C4ISTAR of Rheinmetall Canada Inc. noted: “The Naval Offboard anti-Missile Active Decoy (NOMAD) system is a state of the art Electronic Attack payload integrated onto an unmanned surface vessel for remote anti-ship missile defence operations. Rheinmetall Canada is pleased to have selected Elbit Systems as its ECM provider.”
Edgar Maimon, Executive Vice President and General Manager of Elbit Systems EW and SIGINT - Elisra, noted: “We are proud to continue to provide the RCN and other navies with superior Naval EW capabilities based on advanced digitization and preferable size and weight.״
With more than 40 years of experience, Elbit Systems EW and SIGINT-Elisra is one of the world's leading providers of battle-proven Electronic Warfare (EW) solutions for naval, airborne and land applications. The company is the EW house of the Israeli Navy and is constantly perfecting the systems capabilities to meet the new challenges of the modern battlefield.