ERA introduced its passive surveillance solutions to Black Sea Region

ERA presented its passive surveillance and reconnaissance systems VERA-NG and PLESS within the BSDA (Black Sea Defence, Aerospace and Security), international exhibition, held in Bucharest, Romania, on 22 - 24 May 2024.

ERA representatives introduced the military solutions Passive ESM Tracker VERA-NG and the Over the Horizon Direction Finding system PLESS, focused on their use cases for Air Surveillance, Air Defence and Electronic Warfare. Within series of meetings at ERA booth, they described benefits of these Land-based Passive Surveillance systems to potential customers from Black Sea region.

A number of politicians, diplomats and army officials supported the event: the exhibition started with opening ceremony by Romanian Minister of National Defence Angel Tîlvăr and Romania Chief of Defence General Gheorghiță Vlad.
ERA was honoured to welcome Her Excellence Halka Kaiserová, the Czech Ambassador to Romania, and Her Excellence Aune Kotli, the Estonian Ambassador in Bucharest.

ERA Director of Sales Jakub Thomas also met with General László Tömböl, the Hungarian National Armament Director, and the representatives of HENSOLDT, ERA business partner from Germany. Benefits of integration and combination of passive surveillance systems (Twinvis as a Passive Coherent Location, VERA-NG as a Passive ESM Tracker and PLESS as a Passive Long-range ESM Surveillance System) have been discussed with General.

ERA exhibited at the joined stand with other remarkable companies of Czech defence industry, such as Colt, Vzduchotechnika, Honeywell and Glomex as part of the official Czech presentation, organized by CzechTrade.

BSDA, the international Tri Service Defence, Aerospace and Security Exhibition, takes place every two years to gather the whole offer and demand of the domains. BSDA, this year in its 9^th edition, also serves as a platform to showcase numerous equipment and systems in life-size and live demos. It was created in its original form in 2007 and nowadays organized by Roamero a. s.