Defense & Tech

With Hezbollah's drone attacks straining existing defenses, Esh-Tech's pulsed-laser system aims to give Israeli forces a faster, cheaper, and better way to respond.

Germany’s Defense Ministry is expected to soon launch a project to develop a 60-kilowatt laser demonstrator designed to defend mobile facilities against drone swarms.

Anduril has marked out Israel as a key market, and senior Anduril officials are set to meet with key figures in Israel's defense industry

Hundreds of systems will be deployed in the Lebanese border area, to significantly improve detection and identification of Hezbollah's fiber-optic drones.

The system can operate across several ranges, from 50 km for protecting airports and bases down to 200 meters as a soldier-portable system to protect maneuvering forces at their staging areas.

"As of today, no country has the ability to mount attacks in space. We must be the leading country in the world with this capability," said Katz.

Goal of platform is to "turn the aggressor’s captured technologies into a growth point for the global engineering community"

The deal is the largest contract in Rafael’s history and the second-largest defense deal in Israeli defense-industry history

Fire Point is on track to start flying tests over the summer for its new FP-9 ballistic missile, capable of carrying an 800-kg warhead up to 850 km

How a thread of glass made the West's most advanced air defenses useless, and dragged it back to a war it thought it had escaped