G-NIUS Unmanned Ground Systems (UGS) Ltd., a Joint Company of IAI and Elbit Systems, Delivers the Guardium UGV to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF)
Jun 16, 2008
Starting in 2008, the system is scheduled to take part in security missions along Israel's borders
G-NIUS announced that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has received its first trial system of the GUARDIUM Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV). Sponsored by MAFAT (the Israeli Ministry of Defense’s Research & Development Branch), GUARDIUM is scheduled to take part in security missions along Israel's borders. In preparation for its operational deployment, GUARDIUM UGV is presently concluding a comprehensive test and evaluation campaign in the IDF's Operational Test Laboratories.
In recent years Elbit Systems Ltd. (Elbit Systems) and Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd. (IAI) have both developed different prototypes of UGVs. With the aim of meeting the great challenges inherent in developing unmanned ground systems and endeavoring to offer their customers a superior solution that leverages their cumulative extensive and complementary technological capabilities, IAI and Elbit Systems recently cooperated in the establishment of G-NIUS, as an equally owned joint venture. The GUARDIUM UGV supplied by G-NIUS to the IDF is an advanced 3rd generation UGV, whose technological features are based on the vast experience in UGV development acquired by G-NIUS' parent companies.
GUARDIUM UGV is based on a Tomcar platform, a proven off-road, highly maneuverable vehicle for rough terrain and challenging topography. The vehicle features autonomous operation allowing for precise steering across pre-defined routes programmed in its mission profile.
GUARDIUM UGV is capable of extended and continuous operation, and contains systems allowing for an all weather continuous transmittance of visual, audio and target data back to the operator without risk to human lives. It is also able to autonomously detect and avoid various types of obstacles, enabling real-time course corrections without the intervention of an operator.
Offering modular selection of payloads, GUARDIUM can be effectively utilized in a variety of force protection and homeland security applications, employing a dedicated set of operational tools.
Monitoring the vehicle operation through the GUARDIUM command and control station, the vehicle operator can adjust its mission’s parameters, in the field and in real-time, so as to adapt the UGV performance to changing conditions.
As the first operationally deployed autonomous UGV system, GUARDIUM UGV is already a subject of great interest worldwide.
About G-NIUS Unmanned Ground Vehicles company:
G-NIUS Unmanned Ground Vehicles specializes in the field of unmanned ground systems.
G-NIUS was established as a joint venture company by Elbit Systems and Israel Aerospace Industries - these two aerospace and defense leaders decided to joined forces in the area of UGV and robotics, addressing the evolving military and homeland security applications and market opportunities for such systems. The UGV solutions developed and supplied by the company represent the latest 'third generation', mission oriented autonomous UGV, based on the extensive know-how and stat-of-the-art technologies developed by the two companies in recent years.
For further information, please contact:
Doron Suslik
Deputy Corporate Vice President for Communications
Tel: 972 (3) 935-8509
Fax: 972 (3) 935-8512
Email: hpaz@iai.co.il
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