Defense industry

Jared Kushner Gaza role draws scrutiny over investments tied to Israeli defense firms - report

CNN found that Jared Kushner's Affinity Partners remains the largest shareholder in Phoenix Financial, which has invested millions of dollars in Elbit Systems and other Israeli defense companies.

Jared Kushner as part of the US Delegation at Lake Lucerne Summit at the Buergenstock resort in Obbuergen, near Lucerne, Switzerland.
Ukraine said an amphibious ground robotic vehicle completed a 40km long logistics mission

Ukraine carries out first logistics mission using an amphibious UGV

Smart Shooter's SMASH 2000LE weapon system

Smart Shooter secures $150m. contract for SMASH 2000LE counter-drone systems

Lital Leshem and Lee Moser founded Protego, Israel’s first and largest defense-tech venture capital firms after October 7 to support a growing number of start-ups in the field.

Protego Ventures closes $125m. Fund I, expands focus on early‑growth defense companies


Who writes the code of the new world? - opinion

Software has quietly become strategic terrain. The question is no longer who can write it, but who can be trusted to govern it.

A man holds a laptop computer as cyber code is projected on him in this illustration picture.

Fully autonomous robots are closer than you think- opinion

Robots might look autonomous online, but the real revolution is on the battlefield where cheap drones and smarter defenses are shifting humans from the front line to the sidelines.

Robotican's hybrid Rooster drone and autonomous dog robot

Expanding foothold in Israel, Ondas acquires three more defense tech companies

Ondas said the deal is intended to strengthen its “systems‑of‑systems” approach, combining sensing, connectivity, navigation, and autonomy across aerial and ground systems

Ondas is expanding its integrated autonomous defense systems platform

Israeli defense companies head to Marrakesh Air Show

Jerusalem is targeting Morocco’s growing defense market as it gains a foothold in North Africa

IAI's Barak MX air defense system

What will Israel bring to its most important alliance? - opinion

Israel’s greatest test isn’t what it receives from Washington, it’s what it can bring. As America builds alliances around technology and innovation, Israel has a chance to prove its value

An illustration of a cyber board with an Israel flag.

Israel’s AI advantage is strategic, but humans in the IDF remain responsible - opinion

AI can help process intelligence, identify threats, and support operations, but it does not replace human judgment in battlefield decisions.

An illustration of an AI software running on a laptop, with a silhouetted soldier and Israeli flag in the background.

IAI debuts new tactical vehicle for German special forces

Two TAHRs to be transported inside CH‑47 Chinook helicopters, with crews able to achieve combat readiness shortly after landing

IAI's TAHR for the German Special Forces

Building a drone bridge from Israel's Negev to NATO’s eastern flank

From Gaza-border communities to Latvia’s border with Russia and Belarus, frontline experience is becoming a bridge for innovation

Latvia's drone industry. The country ranks as Europe's seventh-largest drone exporter, a capacity now pairing with the Negev's field-tested edge.

US defense tech company Ondas buys GATE in latest Israeli company acquisition

The acquisition includes GATE, which develops, manufactures, and licenses advanced electronic safe and arm devices (ESADs), as well as its European partner, Bron Technologies.

Ondas manages to complete acquisitions swiftly, sometime within just three weeks

Iran strikes damaged, destroyed hundreds of US bases across Middle East, cost $33.4b, Pentagon says

Ex-CENTCOM chief Gen. Frank McKenzie warned that "the US will not be able to maintain these bases in a full-throated conflict, because they will be rendered unusable by sustained Iranian attack."

US Navy sailors work on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS George Washington as it transits the Arabian Sea to support US military operations in the war with Iran August 20, 2026.