{"id":1711,"date":"2023-09-07T10:29:25","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T10:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/?p=1711"},"modified":"2023-09-07T10:29:26","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T10:29:26","slug":"royal-netherlands-air-force-rnlaf-expands-use-of-elbit-systems-dircm-to-vip-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/2023\/09\/07\/royal-netherlands-air-force-rnlaf-expands-use-of-elbit-systems-dircm-to-vip-aircraft\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF) Expands Use of Elbit Systems&#8217; DIRCM to VIP Aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"864\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/digitone.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Netherlands.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1712\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digitone.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Netherlands.jpg 864w, https:\/\/digitone.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Netherlands-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/digitone.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Netherlands-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/digitone.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Netherlands-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/digitone.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Netherlands-696x464.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Elbit Systems Ltd<\/strong>. has delivered a self-protection suite to the Royal Netherlands Air Force&#8217;s (RNLAF) Gulfstream G-650ER VIP Aircraft. The delivery was carried&nbsp;out within a year of signing and after comprehensive flight acceptance tests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The flight acceptance tests included the examination of the system over a number of flights, all of which were successful and to the full satisfaction of the customer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The aircraft was equipped with an advanced protective suite that includes Elbit Systems&#8217; Direct Infra-Red Counter Measures (DIRCM) and Infra-Red-based Passive Airborne Warning System (IR MWS), a configuration with&nbsp;an EASA supplemental type certificate (STC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This project joins many across the world, including NATO&#8217;s&nbsp;MRTT A330 refueling fleet project-of which the Netherlands is a member- that has a similar protection system installed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ziv Ashkenazi, VP Business Development and Marketing, Airborne Systems at Elbit Systems:<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8220;This plane joins a large fleet of aircraft around the world that are equipped with our advanced and proven self-protection suite. The quality and reliability of our systems have been proven once again in&nbsp;the acceptance trials as well as in the quick completion of the project for our important Dutch customer.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Netherlands Material IT Command Project Leader<\/strong>: &#8220;Based on our experiences with the MMF MRTT-fleet, we were convinced that this self-protection system would&nbsp;fulfill our requirements. We are very satisfied with the support, flexibility and performance provided to our G650ER project.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elbit Systems Ltd. has delivered a self-protection suite to the Royal Netherlands Air Force&#8217;s (RNLAF) Gulfstream G-650ER VIP Aircraft. The delivery was carried&nbsp;out within a year of signing and after comprehensive flight acceptance tests. The flight acceptance tests included the examination of the system over a number of flights, all of which were successful and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,40],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1711","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-defense","8":"category-hightech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711","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=1711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1713,"href":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions\/1713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}