Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) unveiled its new WASP surveillance system on Monday.
The new system provides a high-resolution situational awareness picture of moving targets day and night and within a wide area of interest.
“Utilizing state-of-the-art EO [Earth observation] and [infrared] IR sensors, AI [artificial intelligence] algorithms and adaptive rule engines, the system captures large areas in high revisit rate, to track, identify and alert the system operator of moving targets that correlate with mission requirements and objectives," the IAI said in a statement. "Compact, light-weight and requiring low power consumption, WASP complies with a wide range of aerial platforms such as tactical UAVs, drones, fixed and rotary-wing aircraft, or tethered surveillance balloons.”
"By providing a highly detailed intelligence picture in a wide area, WASP provides excellent two-layer situational awareness that comprises both visual and intelligence information," he said. "As a compact and light system, it can be mounted on a range of platforms to provide strong intelligence capabilities already on the tactical level.”