Israel will be making its 24th appearance at the Paris Air Show — Le Bourget— opening on June 15th, with 18 Israeli companies and organizations participating, 12 of them at the Israel Chalet organized by the Israel Export and International Cooperation Institute and six companies with their own stands.
As reported in Globes Publisher Online, Export Institute chairman David Arzi said that the Israeli exhibition will emphasize avionics and unmanned systems. Israel will unveil several new unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), including helicopters, mini UAVs with electric motors that are carried and operating by individual infantrymen, light tactical UAVs, mid-sized UAVs with proven operational experience and simultaneously operate a range of sensors, and large strategic UAVs with wingspans the size of passenger planes. Israel will also unveil its ambulance UAV for evacuating wounded soldiers from the battlefield.
The companies at the Israel Chalet are Elbit Systems Ltd. (Nasdaq: ESLT; TASE: ESLT), Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd., Rada Electronic Industries Ltd. (Nasdaq: RADA), Aeronautics Ltd., Bental Industries Ltd., Plasan Sasa Ltd., Kanfit Ltd., Controp Precision Technologies Ltd., TAT Technologies Ltd. (Nasdaq:TATTF; TASE:TATTF), Urban Aeronautics Ltd., and Amicell - Amit Industries Ltd.. SIBAT Ministry of Defense Foreign Defense Assistance and Defense Export Organization will also be at this chalet. Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd. (IAI) (TASE: ARSP.B1) will have its own chalet next to the national one. Other Israeli exhibitors are Israel Military Industries Ltd. (IMI), Ashot Ashkelon Industries Ltd. (TASE: ASHO), AeroMaoz Ltd., Bet Shemesh Engines Ltd. (TASE: BSEN), and SGD Engineering Ltd.
In addition to UAVs, the Israeli companies will display other unmanned vehicles and UAV command and control systems, imaging equipment for nighttime and in difficult weather conditions, electronic intelligence systems, transmission calibration, and radar systems for air, land and sea operations. The biennial Paris Air Show is the world's largest and important show in the aviation and aerospace industry with 2,000 exhibitors from 42 countries participating and more than 400,000 expected visitors.
