
An unspecified Asia-Pacific country awarded Elbit Systems Ltd. [ESLT] an $82 million contract to provide the Condor 2 electro-optic airborne solution for use in intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition, and reconnaissance (ISTAR) missions, the company said Wednesday.The Condor 2 is an electro-optical/long range oblique photography system that provides simultaneous high-resolution visible and infrared reconnaissance images at a long stand-off distance from a target. This allows surveillance and reconnaissance at higher altitudes and greater distances, reducing the change the platform is attacked…