ELTA traces its current public identity to 1967, when IAI says the group was established as a specialist organization for advanced radar, intelligence, electronic-warfare, communications, and sensor systems. Its Ashdod site is documented in an official Standards Institution of Israel certificate for Elta Systems Ltd., and current IAI materials present ELTA as an export-scale defense-electronics group backed by IAI's corporate resources.
The manufacturer's public product range is broad: air and missile-defense radars, airborne radars, special mission aircraft, electronic-warfare pods and suites, SIGINT/ELINT/COMINT systems, maritime sensors, land-surveillance systems, counter-UAS systems, secure communications, cyber capabilities, and space-related sensors. IAI's 2025 financial-results release says higher sales across IAI were driven mainly by the Systems Missiles & Space Group and the ELTA Group, giving useful context for ELTA's current industrial weight inside IAI.
air and missile-defense radarselectronic warfareintelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance sensorssecure communicationsspecial mission aircraft systemsmaritime and land surveillancecounter-UAS and homeland-security systemscyber defense
ELTA appears in public sources as ELTA Systems Ltd., ELTA Group, and IAI ELTA. IAI's official site currently presents ELTA as a business group within IAI, while May 2026 reporting describes a proposed statutory merger of ELTA's separate legal entity into IAI subject to required approvals.