Elbit Hermes 900

The Hermes 900, called Kochav, meaning Star, in Israeli service, is a medium-size, medium-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aircraft built by Elbit Systems for tactical reconnaissance, surveillance and communications relay. It succeeds the company's Hermes 450 and is credited with an endurance of more than thirty hours, a ceiling of about 30,000 feet and a wingspan of 15 metres, carrying several hundred kilograms of electro-optical, radar, signals and electronic warfare payload. Israel first used it in July 2014 during Operation Protective Edge, and it joined the Israeli Air Force's operational lineup in November 2015. Buyers since then have included Azerbaijan, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, the Philippines, Switzerland and Thailand, and in India it is co-built by Adani as the Drishti-10 Starliner.