Rada Electronic Industries Ltd's Business Segments

Our activity is primarily focused on the defense electronics market. This is a growing market that is currently a large part of the defense industry. The defense electronics market reflects two contradictory trends, the proliferation of defense electronics, which has been offset by the significant reduction in the price of electronic systems which is reducing the dollar value of the market. Today, new military vehicles of all kinds are equipped with significantly more electronic systems than they used to carry in the past. The increasing usage of advanced electronics in modern vehicles, including upgrades of existing technology and the growing use of unmanned vehicles of all kinds, have provided significant growth to the market.

Todays advanced defense electronics systems typically incorporate components that are derived from the industrial or the consumer electronics markets, especially from the telecom markets. Most of the defense electronics systems are built with commercial components and even with sub-systems, which reduce the overall price, and at the same time generate complex obsolescence issues.

Military Avionics

We are one of the world’s leaders in the field of mission data recording, management, and post-mission analysis and debriefing. Over the past 25 years we have developed, fielded and supported a wide range of solid-state digital recorders, cameras and debriefing systems for aerospace and military applications, including:

Flight data recorders, or FDR, for fighter aircraft;

Digital video/audio/data recorders, or DVDR (with data transfer functions);

High-rate (no compression) data recorders, or HRDR, for aircraft and airborne pods;

Video recorders and airborne data servers, or VRDS, the latest approach to avionic data management;

A wide range of head-up-displays color video cameras, or HCVC, for fighter aircraft; and

A variety of ground debriefing solutions, or GDS.

Featuring state-of-the-art technologies, our digital recorders are designed for military applications. Our high-performance recorders provide simultaneous, high-capacity video (both analog and digital/HD), audio and data recording, high throughput and mass storage handling capabilities, supporting rapid dissemination and real time playback. Our video recorders implement MPEG-2 and/or MPEG-4 (H.264) compression formats, supporting up to 128GB of solid state memory, facilitating continuous recording over extended mission durations.

Our GDS feature synchronized video, audio, data, and air combat maneuvering debriefing. GDS vary from personal, laptop-size debriefing units, through robust desktop multi-channel systems supporting the mission debriefing of four-aircraft formations up to large-scale simultaneous debriefing systems. These network-based systems support large numbers of participants operating from different locations, and provide advanced data management features.

We have been a developer and manufacturer of core avionics systems for over 30 years. We currently offer a wide spectrum of military avionics systems designed for integration in new and upgraded military aircraft and UAVs worldwide. Our avionics solutions range from fully integrated avionics suites, MOTS core avionics subsystems, to tailor-made "built-to-spec" units, backed by our teams of experts dedicated to providing global technical and maintenance support.

Our avionics systems are easily adapted to western, eastern, and indigenous-origin platforms of all kinds. We provide our avionic expertise as team members and subcontractors and as prime contractors for avionic upgrades. In particular, our avionics for UAVs are extremely compact through modern board connectivity solutions, use of innovative conductive cooling techniques, withstand extreme environmental conditions and are very reliable and affordable.


We offer the following avionics solutions:

Complete integrated avionics upgrade suites for fighters and mission aircraft;

Mission and display computers;

Weapon management systems;

Data interface and processing computers;

Mission data recorders and debriefing solutions;

HUD video cameras;

INS;

Avionics for UAVs (Interface control processors, engine control computers, Payload management computers, and others).

R-100F: FOG-based, navigation-grade embedded GPS-INS for fighters and helicopters;

R-200M: Compact, MEMS-based, multiple-sensor aided INS for UAVs and backup INS for manned aircraft;

MAVINS – Modular Avionics and MEMS-Based INS: A specially-designed, compact integrated solution for UAVs and disposable applications.

Our airborne products and system solutions are fully qualified and operated by leading air forces and prime integrators worldwide, such as the Israeli Air Force, or IAF, Lockheed Martin, Boeing Company, GE Aviation, HAL, Embraer, IAI, Rafael, the Chilean Air Force, Indra Systemas S.A., and many others. Our units are installed onboard F-16, F-15, A-4, Jaguar, MiG-27, Su-30MKI, Dhruv Helicopter, MiG-29, Super-Tucano and other aircraft, and onboard a continuously-growing number of UAVs.

Tactical Radars for Defense Forces and Border Protection Solutions

We develop advanced ground-based radars for tactical applications such as defense forces protection and border protection. Our pulse Doppler, software-defined radars are solid-state, fully digital, incorporate active electronically scanned array, or AESA antenna, are compact, mobile and highly reliable, provide hemispheric spatial coverage and multi-mission capabilities, and demonstrate unprecedented performance-to-price ratio.

The asymmetric and irregular conflicts in which modern armies are engaged with in recent years dictate the needs for instantaneous and real-time intelligence, minimal cycle time for target acquisition, highly accurate weapons with minimal collateral damage and discrimination between hostiles and civilians. Our tactical radars, which move with the maneuvering combat units in the field and operate on-the-move, provide the real-time knowledge of whether and from where they are threatened, detect all relevant threats, whether unfriendly fire or drones/UAVs/fighters/helicopters from any angle (including very high angles), discriminate among threats and provide the needed intelligence for any course of action, whether counter-fire or avoidance. The performance-over-price ratio of our radars makes them ideal solutions to the needs and requirements imposed by the asymmetric arena.

We have developed various radar hardware platforms: the compact hemispheric radar, or CHR, which is tailored for use in combat vehicles and short-range protection applications; and a family of multi-mission hemispheric radars, or MHRs, which are tailored for use in force and border protection applications. We offer the MHR, the enhanced MHR, or eMHR, and the improved and enhanced MHR, or ieMHR; all share the same basic characteristics, but differ in range, size, weight, and price. For each radar platform we implement several operational missions by changing the radar operational parameters.

The current operational missions of the CHR are the following:

The RPS-10 radar sensors for active protection systems, or APS, detect all relevant threats that may be fired at combat vehicles, including RPGs, anti-tank guided missiles (ATGMs) and projectiles and provide 360° hemispheric coverage. The system delivers threat data to the APS, enabling it to neutralize threats.

The RPS-12 short-range hemispheric air surveillance radar system can detect, classify and track aerial vehicles at ranges of up to 10km, with emphasis on small UAVs. Mobile or stationary, the system can be integrated with any C4I system and other radars and sensors, and can operate either as a stand-alone, or as part of a large-scale surveillance system.


The RPS-14 radar system for perimeter and border protection can detect, identify, and track aerial and surface intruders including slow and small aircraft, vehicles, vessels, and pedestrians at tactical ranges. The RPS-14 can operate either as a stand-alone, or as part of a large-scale surveillance system.


The RPS-15 comprehensive hostile fire management system for combat vehicle detects, tracks, classifies, and locates direct and elevated threats fired at combat vehicles, allowing the mobile force to successfully complete its mission while operating in a hostile environment.

The current operational missions of the MHR family of radar platforms are the following:


The RPS-40/70/80 hostile fire detection radar systems detect, track, classify and locate direct and elevated threats fired at stationary or mobile forces. They compute the Point-Of-Origin (POO) and Point-Of-Impact (POI) of the threats, which may be rockets, artillery, mortars, ATGMs, RPGs, and more other threats. The systems can be integrated with any protection and Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (C4I) system and be installed at stationary bases and posts, or onboard fighting vehicles.


The RPS-42/72/82 tactical hemispheric air surveillance radar systems can detect, classify and track all types of aerial vehicles, including fighters, helicopters, UAVs, transport aircraft, etc. at tactical ranges. Mobile or stationary, the systems can be integrated with any C4I system and other radars and sensors, and can operate either as a stand-alone, or as part of a large-scale surveillance system.


The RHS-44/74/84 radar systems for border protection can detect, identify, and track aerial and surface border intruders including slow and small aircraft, vehicles, vessels, and pedestrians at tactical ranges. The systems can operate either as a stand-alone, or as part of a large-scale surveillance system.

Among our customers for radar systems are leading defense forces and industries worldwide, including the Israeli MOD, IMI, Artis, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, DRS, the U.S. Navy, Indian Security Forces, Elettronica S.p.A and additional air defense prime integrators and end-users. Some of our customers have purchased a small number of our radars for evaluation and integration in their air defense and/or other systems. These may turn into larger production orders upon evaluation and if such systems begin full rate production.