Airborne platforms place unique demands on optical sub-assemblies. There is a demand for reliability, repeatability and extreme accuracy in an environment beset with large temperature swings, severe vibrations, intense shock, hostile gases and airborne particles, and acute pressure swings. In addition to intense environmental challenges are rigorous performance requirements; airborne sub-assemblies must be manufactured in compact, lightweight packages.

Some of the Airborne systems ELCAN produces are:

CLADS Cockpit camera lenses Laser Designators Countermeasures Passive Airborne Warning Sensors Thermal Imagers LADAR FLIR Systems HUDs