{"id":1325,"date":"2019-11-01T16:00:40","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T16:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/?p=1325"},"modified":"2019-11-01T16:00:41","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T16:00:41","slug":"elbit-wins-large-swiss-and-danish-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/2019\/11\/01\/elbit-wins-large-swiss-and-danish-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Elbit Wins Large Swiss and Danish Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"864\" height=\"611\" src=\"https:\/\/digitone.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Elbitradio.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digitone.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Elbitradio.jpg 864w, https:\/\/digitone.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Elbitradio-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/digitone.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Elbitradio-768x543.jpg 768w, https:\/\/digitone.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Elbitradio-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/digitone.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Elbitradio-696x492.jpg 696w, https:\/\/digitone.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Elbitradio-594x420.jpg 594w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Elbit Technologies announced it received a major order from Switzerland. The order tags Elbit to supply the Swiss Armed Forces with a comprehensive tactical communication solution. The contract has to be ratified by the Swiss Parliament. Elbit did not disclose the exact value of the&nbsp; order, but it is estimated to be valued as to be as high as $300 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bezhalel (Butzi) Machlis, President and CEO of Elbit Systems, said: \u201cWe are proud to have been selected to provide such an important capability to the Swiss Armed Forces. Switzerland is a strategic market for us and we will continue with our efforts to support the Swiss Armed Forces and expand our cooperation with the Swiss industry.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition Elbit announced that it was awarded a contract valued at approximately $50 million from the Portuguese Ministry of Defense (MoD) to supply the Portuguese Air Force (\u201cPtAF\u201d) with a complete Electronic Warfare (EW) suite and Customer Logistics Support for the new KC-390 multi-mission aircraft. The contract will be performed over a five-year period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"864\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/digitone.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/KC390.jpg\" alt=\"kC90\" class=\"wp-image-1327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digitone.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/KC390.jpg 864w, https:\/\/digitone.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/KC390-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/digitone.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/KC390-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/digitone.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/KC390-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/digitone.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/KC390-630x420.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Under the contract, Elbit Systems will supply the PtAF\u2019s KC-390 aircraft with a complete EW suite comprised of Radar and Laser Warning Systems, IR Missile Warning System, Countermeasures Dispensing System, a Directional IR Countermeasures (DIRCM) system and Active ECM (AECM) POD system.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elbit Technologies announced it received a major order from Switzerland. The order tags Elbit to supply the Swiss Armed Forces with a comprehensive tactical communication solution. The contract has to be ratified by the Swiss Parliament. Elbit did not disclose the exact value of the&nbsp; order, but it is estimated to be valued as to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1325","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-defense"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1328,"href":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325\/revisions\/1328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}