Defense Tech
Investors turn to Israel’s battle-tested defense-tech start-ups as funding hits record $40.8b.
Investments are pouring into military and dual-use technologies at unprecedented levels due to rising military spending and demand for autonomous systems and deployable battlefield technologies.
Inside Wild West's vision for armed robotics
Israel's Elbit Systems acquires Canadian underwater drone company amid rising Russian Arctic threat
Built for speed and agility, Plasan and ASFIR unveil STORMER
AI can think, but can it communicate? - opinion
Israel wants to lead the age of physical AI. To do that, we need to simulate not only the world autonomous machines can see, but the invisible world their signals travel through
Rafael, Lockheed accelerate SPICE 1000 integration on Israeli F‑35s
Both the SPICE 1000 and SPICE 250 have been employed in the long‑range missions against Iran and Yemen.
The final frontier: US reveals Space Force has 'on-orbit space control weapons' for first time
Meink declined to say whether the weapons were kinetic, meaning systems designed to physically damage or destroy a target, or non-kinetic systems such as electronic warfare capabilities.
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.
Ukraine wins first reported naval drone‑on‑drone battle in the Black Sea
Ukrainian USVs have destroyed Russian ships both at port and at sea, hitting over 100 Russian vessels in the Sea of Azov and Black Sea over the summer
The real value of autonomous drones isn’t flight, it’s their presence - opinion
Autonomous drones are becoming infrastructure that allow for constant, low‑cost security and inspection. The real shift isn’t the aircraft anymore, it’s the business model.
Behind the killer robots of Ukraine's new warfare 'revolution'
'They don't need food, they don't need water, they don't need logs delivered to build shelters Basically, we don't need to feel for them. It's a hunk of iron sent to do the job'
AI, jets, drones: IAI chairman Boaz Levy describes future battlefield, air force - interview
Levy said that he expects the future of air dominance to involve more satellites, AI, robots, and missiles, with fewer clear boundaries between the front and the rear.
Reinventing the battlefield
Israel's defense giants and a new generations of startups are reshaping how the country fights its wars
There are 636,120 ways home - opinion
The DSM‑5 lists numerous PTSD symptom combinations, each a distinct road back from war, and no single measure can account for that journey
