Elbit Systems Awarded Approximately $85 Million in Contracts for Electro-Optic Communications

Date Announced: 22 Oct 2014

Mostly to be deployed as F-5 aircraft avionics upgrade program.

HAIFA, Israel, October 22, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Elbit Systems Ltd. (NASDAQ and TASE:ESLT) ("Elbit Systems") announced today that it was awarded contracts from an Asian country in a total amount of approximately $85 million. Most of the amount is for an F-5 aircraft avionics upgrade program and the balance is for the supply of electro-optic and communications systems. The contracts will be performed over a three-year period.

Bezhalel (Butzi) Machlis, President and CEO of Elbit Systems. commented: "Asia-Pacific is a very important market for Elbit Systems, and we are pleased to be awarded further programs in the region, which programs benefit from the synergies across the various parts of our organization. We are proud to have been selected to perform this aircraft upgrade program, building on our vast know-how and experience in F-5 avionics modernization projects. We have witnessed a growing demand for upgrades of this nature, and we trust that further customers will follow, benefiting from a mature aircraft upgraded with market leading technologies."

Source: Elbit Systems

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