Elbit wins $40 million in contracts to supply handheld thermal-imaging cameras

HAIFA, Israel, 20 Jan 2008.Elbit Systems Ltd. in Haifa,Israel, won $40 million in contracts to supply Elbit's CORAL and CORAL-CR hand-held lightweight thermal imaging cameras.

Manufacturing the cameras will be Elbit subsidiary Elop Ltd. in Rehovot, Israel. Applications are for infantry, scouts, and special units, night sight and target acquisition, security and perimeter defense, and target acquisition.

CORAL is a dual FOV thermal imaging camera, based on Elop's advanced 3 to 5-millimeter indium antimonide focal plane array detector technology, already used in many of Elop's other thermal imaging products.

It produces a thermal image based on Elop's image-processing circuitry and software algorithms. CORAL-CR is a hand-held thermal imaging system that includes target acquisition capabilities to identify self positioning and detected target position.

These capabilities come from a laser range finder, a digital compass, and a global positioning system that are mounted and boresighted together with the forward-looking infrared (FLIR) sensor.

For more information contact Elop online at www.el-op.com.