Scorpius

IAI/Elta's software-defined, AESA-based electronic-warfare family for simultaneous detection and jamming of multiple radar and communications threats across ground, naval, airborne and training variants.

Overview

Scorpius is a family of electronic-support and electronic-countermeasures systems developed by Israel Aerospace Industries' Elta Systems subsidiary. It is not a single jammer but a common architecture applied to ground-based area defense, shipboard protection, airborne escort and standoff jamming, individual aircraft self-protection, and training-range threat emulation. IAI identifies the core family as ELL-8256SB and describes it as an Active Electronically Scanned Array system that can form multiple focused jamming beams at once rather than steering a single antenna sequentially from target to target, according to the company's Scorpius-G product page.

The system's public profile rests heavily on manufacturer statements. IAI unveiled the family in November 2021 and presented it as a major step in exportable electronic warfare, while trade coverage in The War Zone and Defense News emphasized the same core claim: AESA arrays allow Scorpius to search a wide sector and apply separate, narrow jamming effects against multiple threats simultaneously. Quantitative performance data, customer identities, unit counts, jamming ranges and effective radiated power are not publicly established.

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