Elbit CEO Sees Helicopter Laser System Operational Shortly

helicopter with an open side bay revealing a laser

Elbit says its helicopter laser system (rendering) is in advanced development.

Credit: Elbit Systems
Elbit Systems’ CEO Bezhalel Machlis said a helicopter-transported, high-energy laser system the company is developing for Israel will be operational “in a relatively short period of time.” “We are very advanced with the development,” Machlis said on Aug. 11 as the company posted second-quarter...
Robert Wall

Robert Wall is Executive Editor for Defense and Space. Based in London, he directs a team of military and space journalists across the U.S., Europe and Asia-Pacific.

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