Elbit Systems Deutschland

Elbit Systems Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG is the German subsidiary of Elbit Systems and is headquartered in Ulm, Baden-Württemberg, where it also carries out production and repair. The company traces its roots to TELEFUNKEN, founded in 1903. Its radio communications business became EADS RACOMS in 2000 and TELEFUNKEN RACOMS in 2004, has been a wholly owned part of the Elbit Systems group since 2007 and was renamed Elbit Systems Deutschland in 2020. Elbit describes the company as one of its primary regional hubs in Europe.

Its portfolio covers radio communications, including the E-LynX software-defined radio family and HF systems, as well as night vision and thermal imaging equipment, laser target designators, electronic warfare, aircraft self-protection, command and control and cyber security. The company is a long-standing supplier to the Bundeswehr, including the German Army, special forces and air force, and to the German Federal Police. E-LynX radios are installed in the Puma infantry fighting vehicle.

In unmanned systems Elbit Systems Deutschland offers the Skylark I-LE and Skylark 3 small unmanned aircraft, the Hermes 45 UAV, the MAGNI and THOR VTOL drones, the IRIS and MTGR unmanned ground vehicles and the 12 m Seagull unmanned surface vessel. It presented the ReDrone counter-UAS system at Enforce Tac 2024. At ILA Berlin 2026 it showed the Hermes 650 Spark UAV, the SkyStriker loitering munition, an airborne high-power laser for counter-UAS applications and E-LynX UxS, a radio extension linking crewed and uncrewed platforms.