Israel Aerospace Industries Unveils ‘ELLYON’: Next-Gen Multi-Mission Aircraft Featuring Electronic Attack and Advanced ISTAR Capabilities
Tel Aviv, July 20th, 2026 – Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) today unveiled ELLYON, a next-generation multi-mission aircraft that integrates Electronic Attack (EA) and advanced Intelligence Surveillance Target Acquisition and Reconnaissance (ISTAR) capabilities. Featuring full-spectrum frequency jamming and coverage, advanced intelligence gathering capabilities, SIGINT, long-range SAR/GMTI radar, electro-optical sensing, and wide-band satellite communications (SATCOM) into a unified “all-in-one” airborne platform.
Enabling stand-off operations from hundreds of kilometers while minimizing platform exposure, ELLYON detects, collects, and classifies intelligence while simultaneously performing electronic countermeasures, disruption, and EA operations against a variety of systems on the battlespace. Its AI-based multi-mission management system processes information from onboard sensors, generates intelligence insights, and transmits them in real-time via satellite communications to command centers, ground control stations, and additional airborne platforms.
ELLYON is designed to be platform-agnostic and can be integrated onboard multiple large business jet platforms. Its EA suite enables full-spectrum operations against airborne and ground-based threats, delivering advanced radar and communications jamming capabilities across the electromagnetic spectrum. Able to simultaneously execute both radar jamming and communications jamming within a single mission, ELLYON allows coordinated operational effects against advanced threats and integrated air defense systems. The aircraft’s self-protection suite incorporates advanced threat detection, warning, electronic countermeasures, and protection capabilities.
Boaz Levy, Chairman of the Board at IAI: “IAI has been at the forefront of developing advanced intelligence aircraft, combining technological innovation and operational expertise. ELLYON continues this legacy by integrating advanced intelligence collection, Electronic Attack and AI-driven mission management into a single platform, providing a decisive operational advantage in evolving battlespace.”
Dror Bar, CEO of ELTA Systems and EVP at IAI: “ELLYON represents a technological leap forward, combining stand-off operations with the ability to sense, understand and shape the electromagnetic battlespace. ELLYON shortens intelligence-to-action cycles and enhances freedom of action in the most demanding operational environments.”
The technologies integrated into ELLYON are operationally proven and represent IAI’s multidisciplinary capabilities across the intelligence, EA, and airborne domains, including sensor miniaturization, advanced algorithms, and AI-based software applications. ELLYON joins IAI ELTA’s family of intelligence aircraft developed for the Israel Defense Forces and allies around the globe. These aircraft have accumulated extensive operational experience, supporting air defense, intelligence superiority and strategic operational capabilities.
About Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI)
IAI is a world-leading aerospace and defense company innovating and delivering cutting-edge technologies in space, air, land, naval, cyber and homeland security for the defense, aerospace and commercial markets. Combining innovation with decades of combat-proven experience, IAI provides customers with tailor-made, cutting-edge solutions for the unique challenges they face, including satellites, UAVs, missiles, intelligence solutions, weapon systems, air defense systems, robotic systems, radars, business jets, aerostructures, and more. Established in 1953, IAI is one of Israel’s largest technology employers with offices and R&D centers in Israel and abroad.
