Another highlight from this year's Paris Air Show was Israeli Elbit Systems' 'first-ever' military and civilian MALE drone, the Elbit Hermes 900 'Starliner.'
According to Bettesh, the Hermes 900 is the largest UAV they've produced. Elbit says it has sold more than 120 Hermes 900s abroad and has become what Bettesh called “the standard and the most efficient UAV of the MALE category.” However, he acknowledged it could be “difficult and challenging” to compete with another high-profile drone in the MALE category—namely, the much larger General Atomic’s MQ-9 Reaper.
The "Starliner" model is designed to operate in civilian airspace and has been promoted as a versatile option for various purposes, including homeland defense, law enforcement, and firefighting assistance. “We invested more than six years in receiving this certification from the Israeli civil airspace authority,” Bettesh explained.airworthiness standards, UAVs must be designed with these parameters in mind, which entails flight testing and safety board approval.
“Switzerland was the first to buy Hermes 900 Starliner; after that, they also issue a military type certificate, so we have double certification for military arms forces,” he noted. Integrating UAVs into non-segregated airspace has been an issue of discussion for years. Canada also uses Starliner drones for “environmental protection,” Elbit says.
“We did not deploy the sonar buoys, but we are taking advantage of the recent sonar buoy category from THALES that they are much smaller; we can equip [the UAVs] with more buoys for better operational effect with one platform,” says Bettesh.
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