{"id":245038,"date":"2026-08-11T15:38:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T15:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/245038\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T15:38:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T15:38:14","slug":"serbia-to-collaborate-with-israels-elbit-systems-open-joint-drone-factory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/245038\/","title":{"rendered":"Serbia to collaborate with Israel&#8217;s Elbit Systems, open joint drone factory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Serbian President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/international\/article-904177\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aleksandar Vucic<\/a> announced on Saturday that his country was about to open a UAV factory with Israeli company Elbit Systems.<\/p>\n<p>The inauguration is expected to take place between September 15 and September 20. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/diaspora\/antisemitism\/article-905088\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elbit Systems<\/a> will hold a 51% majority stake in the factory, and Serbia&#8217;s state-owned arms company SDPR will hold 49%.<\/p>\n<p>In August last year, Globes reported that a &#8220;European country&#8221; that asked not to be named had bought defense solutions amounting to $1.63 billion from Elbit Systems. It was quickly discovered that the country in question was Serbia.<\/p>\n<p>The five-year contract between Elbit Systems and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/tags\/serbia\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Serbia<\/a> covers precision long-range artillery rocket systems and a range of unmanned aerial systems for intelligence gathering and attack, including personal drones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Elbit Systems will also supply advanced ISTAR (intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition, and reconnaissance) capabilities, intelligence gathering and processing systems, advanced electro-optic systems, night-vision systems, and upgrades to battlefield vehicles and protection systems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Besides this, Elbit Systems will provide a comprehensive solution for military digitization and battlefield communications based on the latest generation of equipment and software.<\/p>\n<p>The contract is among the highest-value deals by Israeli defense companies. Top of the list is the sale of the Arrow 3 system to Germany by Israel Aerospace Industries in 2023 for $3.5 billion. Before that, the most valuable contract was the sale of Barak 8 air defense systems by Israel Aerospace Industries to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-905010\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">India<\/a> in 2017 for $1.6 billion. A month later, the naval version of Barak 8 was sold to India for a further $630 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Greece recently approved the euro3.5 billion purchase of a multi-layer air defense system from Israel. The deal consists of Rafael&#8217;s David&#8217;s Sling in the long-range tier, Israel Aerospace Industries Barak MX in the medium-range tier, and Rafael&#8217;s Spyder in the short-range tier. Earlier this year, Romania bought the Spyder system for 2 billion euros.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic announced on Saturday that his country was about to open a UAV factory with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[21808,2384,711,10885,37,3186,17419],"class_list":["post-245038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-aleksandar-vucic","tag-defense-tech","tag-drone","tag-elbit-systems","tag-israel","tag-serbia","tag-uavs"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117077626419498954","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}