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The Hungarian army is buying the Vaskupola system’s radar system, which provides protection against short-range missiles and artillery shells, writes the news portal of the Jediót Ahronót newspaper, ynet.
ELTA Systems Ltd., a subsidiary of the Israeli state-owned company, undertook to manufacture and deliver the new air defense system to the Hungarian military, MTI reported.
JUST TWO YEARS AGO, EIGHT RADAR SYSTEMS WERE SOLD TO THE CZECH REPUBLIC FOR $ 125 MILLION
(for around HUF 35 billion), but according to ynet, the current transaction will be even bigger.
Hungarian chief of staff Ferenc Korom signed an agreement on the Israeli arms trade on Friday.
THE HUNGARIAN ARMY WILL TAKE CONTROL OF THE FIRST NEW RADAR EQUIPMENT IN 2022,
They replace old Hungarian-owned air defense radars from the Soviet era.
The radar system called ELM-2084 developed at the beginning of the previous decade in Elta, with the support of the Directorate of Research and Development of the Ministry of Defense of Israel
Mainly for protection against missile attacks from the Gaza Strip.
Detection and measurement system for low-flying aircraft, helicopters, unmanned aerial vehicles, missiles and artillery shells power.
The system was adapted to the “Iron Dome” air defense project and coordinated with artillery teams.
Write MTI.
The Israeli state enterprise so far
sold more than 100 radar systems worth more than $ 2 billion (almost HUF 600 billion),
Canada, India and Finland, among others, and Singapore reportedly bought from them as well.
(Cover image: Israeli Navy Iron Dome air defense system in a Corvette Lahav Sa’ar Class 5 in the port of Haifa on February 12, 2019. Photo: Jack Guez / MTI / EPA)
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