Israeli company Bird Aerosystems has teamed with Airbus to develop and field the Airborne Missile Protection System (AMPS) MV on helicopters and aircraft to protect them from the proliferating threat of man-portable air defense systems, or manpads.

After years of difficulties, the hangars at the Bedek MRO division of Israeli Aircraft Industries are full and faces are smiling.

Two counter-UAS systems developed in Israel are shown here at Le Bourget, designed to deal with different aspects of drone threats.