C-catcher ELM-2025

In today's volatile world, organizations responsible for national safety and security are confronted with numerous threats from the air, land, and sea. Unfortunately, these threats include terrorism, smuggling, uncontrolled immigration, illegal fishing, territorial disputes, and conventional maritime conflicts. Such conflicts may encompass state-on-state naval engagements, piracy, and blockade operations that jeopardize the control of economic exclusion zones (EEZs), critical maritime infrastructure, and sea lines of communication. Airborne surveillance radars, deployed from various manned and unmanned aircraft platforms, play a crucial role in addressing these formidable challenges by enhancing Maritime Domain Awareness.

These aerial assets enable the effective search of vast areas, significantly improving the detection and monitoring of potential threats.
The C-catcher ELM-2025 family of airborne surveillance AESA radars deliver outstanding performance day and night, and in all weather and visibility conditions, including clouds, rain, fog and smoke. All radars employ IAI ELTA's state of the art Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) antenna technology, enabling simultaneous, multi-mode operation for air to sea, land and air missions. AESA also facilitates enhanced detection range; higher operation altitude, improved classification and tracking; higher reliability; higher mission availability; and lower maintenance costs.

Designed to perform maritime surveillance at altitudes that optimize range and wide area coverage, the C-catcher radars employ inverse SAR (ISAR) and Range Signature (RS) modes to detect, track, and classify even small maritime targets in all sea states.

In air-to-air mode, the C-catcher radars detect and track multiple airborne targets, providing essential air situation awareness. This capability is crucial in identifying and responding to UAVs and other aerial threats, which pose significant risks to naval forces and critical infrastructure. By continuously monitoring the airspace, the radars ensure that potential threats are detected early, allowing for timely engagement by various air defense systems. 

Additionally, C-catcher radars serve as effective weather research and navigation tools, capable of analyzing hurricanes and providing navigation support.

For air to ground operations the C-catcher radars feature SAR and GMTI modes to support wide-area reconnaissance, including stationary and moving ground targets surveillance. In SAR mode, the radars employ Strip and Spot imaging modes, while the GMTI mode enables the detection and tracking of moving ground targets within a wide geographical area.

The C-catcher radars feature multi-mode capability, which enables them to perform a number of crucial tasks simultaneously. Their high throughput, together with the ability to interface with other systems such as AIS, ADS-B, IFF and EO/IR and with mission systems, make them the center of a comprehensive surveillance suite.

Available in various sizes, weights, with differing power consumption requirements, and with fixed and rotating AESA antenna options, the C-catcher radars are ready to equip the widest range of platforms - from small UAVs and VTOLs through to rotary wing and various fixed wing, long-range, high-endurance aircraft.

With over one-thousand systems delivered to navies, coast guards and air forces around the globe, IAI ELTA has set the industry standard for multi-mode surveillance radars. With their robust design and upgradeable software driven architecture ensuring superb performance over an exceptionally long service life, the new C-catcher family of radars continue to build on this rich legacy.