Inside Elbit America’s next-gen pilot technology and strategy

We've been designing, building flight-certified hardware for use in combat as our origin story

It started out with 4th gen, it progressed into 5th gen with the F-35

and we look forward to progressing again into the 6th gen realm with our platforms

Zero-G is our next generation of helmet. Elbit is like the sole provider of data fusion at the pilot on 4th gen, 5th gen, and hopefully

now in the future 6th gen aircraft in the world. It is a combat system, part of the combat system in terms of being the primary flight

instrument, as well as how the pilot interacts with their environment and the weapon system

We got our latest here, which is Zero-G, and Zero-G looks to improve upon that, which we've done on the F-35 and done on other aircraft

It looks to reduce weight, add better and more enhanced night vision, and more and more data and sensor fusion at the edge

It's all about weight. As pilots spend longer times in the cockpit have to deal with more data from loyal wingmen and other drones that are out there It more important for them to have less strain When we look at the platforms being able to pull more Gs and be more maneuverable every ounce you can reduce out of the helmet becomes more and more and more important

And Zero-G brings lightweight, but then also starts to bring in better sensors

with the night vision that we have mounted on it and the speed at which that is pumped into the actual display

Zero-G is our critical technology when we look at here in the air domain

of what makes the pilot effective. When we look at things from CCA and Loyal Wingman

and how pilots in fourth, fifth gen, and sixth gen platforms digest that information

and effectively employ them, it is things like zero-G that are critical to that

critical to employing those weapons, but also critical to operating the aircraft

Our history of providing that as the primary flight instrument, not needing a HUD

and being able to look at the world as it is, a sphere, not a flat plane in front of you, is critical to winning the next fight

There's a lot out there when we talk about munitions in our inventory, and some of those

things are for day one of a war, and some of those things are for day 14 and for extended operations

Affordability, we know, is key because mass is key when we look at more advanced adversaries

For us we been focused in two areas One is on affordable seekers What makes a weapon expensive is how it guides the target And when we look at lower cost munitions how do they still maintain their sophistication and make it to very complex targets

So that's been one place we've innovated at, and we have a history of doing that. Our next level of innovation has been on affordable full-up weapons. We see that with

our Rampage system, going hundreds of kilometers at a six-figure price, exo-atmospheric and

hypersonic, but then providing that in a very, very low cost setting so that you can really buy

those things in mass to overwhelm a target. So I do think it is about building industrial base

and making things in mass. The best way to avoid war is to prepare for it like it's inevitable

And really it is about industrial base, building in volume, building in volume affordably

and bringing real things to the table. I think we've seen a lot of experimentation over the last

few years that we've looked at our pivot to peer competition, but now is the time for making things

versus talking about them and making sure that we're making appropriate decisions on empirical

things that we know will work both on day one, but on day 14, day 30, or day 60 of the next conflict

We continue to expand and build helmets en masse working with our OEM partners on fourth and fifth

platforms like the F35 the F15 the F16 and then working with our REM partners on the next level of those things So a lot of things out there here in recent history but a lot of it is about empowering the soldier making that soldier

more aware of what's going on, whether it's below the waves or in the air from the cockpit

So I think here we start the fall season, which is great here with AFA, but leading into AUSA

you're going to talk a lot about leading up to that about defense of the homeland. In particular

not only our situational awareness that we bring to the border for that reason, but also how that

relates to Golden Dome and what are we doing to bring effectors and systems to take out low-end

threats from our southern flank. We think that this is critical importance. We see that as a

lesson learned from Iran and from Yemen of what asymmetric use of unmanned, low-unmanned systems

are, and defending the homeland is of critical importance. And you'll hear us talk about that

a lot between now and AUSA. Hey, if you're at a convention where we're at

invite you to our booth. We've got lots of cool stuff that is here, not only stuff that you can touch and feel

but stuff you can actually operate. We like to prove what we do

and we don't propose anything that we aren't already doing, and it isn't combat proven

So come visit us if you're here at the convention