Defense Tech

Israel's cyber chief predicts cyberwar between offensive, defensive AI agents

Israel's National Cyber Directorate handled a 55% increase of cyberattacks in 2025 compared to the previous year, Yossi Karadi revealed at the Cybertech Conference in Tel Aviv.

Israel National Cyber Directorate chief Yossi Karadi speaks at the CyberTech Conference in Tel Aviv, January 27, 2025
An Israeli army soldier launches an Elbit Skylark miniature unmanned aerial vehicle (mini UAV) used for surveillance, from an army deployment area near the border with the Gaza Strip in southern Israel on September 30, 2025.

Ukrainian soldiers urge Israel to embrace drones, robotics as future of warfare

Leonidas Stryker

Microwave weapon aims to knock drones out of the sky, Epirus pitches Leonidas

IDF drone developed dto transport whole blood.

Defense is not a stock market sprint: It's a long game of time, politics and patience - opinion


IDF expands C4I-Cyber directorate with new AI, spectrum divisions, following lessons learned in war

The C4I and Cyber Defense Directorate's AI Division will also include a unit made up of reservists, utilizing their knowledge from civilian life in Israel's hi-tech sector.

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

Defense innovation: Canada must learn from Israel, Ukraine, US to modernize its military - opinion

As Canada embarks on its largest defense buildup in decades, it can draw inspiration from Ukraine and the US for procurement reform, and from Israel on how to nurture a competitive challenger defense

A Canadian military instructor and military instructors of the U.S. Army are seen near Ukrainian servicemen during multinational drills "Rapid Trident 2019" at the International Peacekeeping and Security Center near Lviv, Ukraine September 24, 2019

Israeli drone startup Heven AeroTech now valued over $1 billion after IonQ investment

Investor Lorne Abony of Texas Venture Partners described the Israeli-founded US based drone company Heven AeroTech as “Israel’s first defense tech unicorn.”

Heven's Z1 unmanned aerial system

Israeli defense giants climb int'l ranks, record double-digit revenue growth in 2024, report says

The three Israeli firms listed in SIPRI’s Top 100 arms producers report increased their combined arms revenues by 16% from 2023 to $16.2 billion. 

View of the closed Elbit Systems stand after the four main Israeli company stands at the Paris Airshow have been shut down by organizers during the 55th Paris Air Show at Le Bourget Airport near Paris, France, June 16, 2025.

Israeli start-up Moonshot unveils hypersonic launcher for orbital logistics

The company has already signed preliminary agreements with Italy’s D Orbit and US-based Orbit Fab, both leaders in in-orbit servicing.

Satellite in Space.

Ondas continues Israel defense-tech buying spree

The buying spree could even accelerate, with several Israeli defense-tech companies in Ondas's sights.

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

Armed drones continue to fly ahead, and so is the tech bringing them down - analysis

Several dozen c-UAS companies, both Israeli and international, took part in the recent UVID Drone conference in Tel Aviv last week, highlighting their technology

An aircraft lands on the tarmac near a "No Drone Zone" placard on the day of an emergency meeting of Belgian government officials and experts, following drone sightings that closed Brussels Airport, at Brussels international Airport in Zaventem, Belgium, November 6, 2025.

'First robotics war': Defense Ministry shows how robotic systems used in Israel-Hamas War

The robotic systems have gotten much more diverse and standardized, being deployed in much higher volumes to assist with exploring Hamas tunnels, to save risking soldiers' lives from that process.

The Jaguar traversing through the land

'Defense-Tech Nation': Israel prepares new spectrum of weapons for next Iran war

Defense Ministry's Amir Baram warned that "Iran's rapid force buildup in air defense and ballistic missile capabilities" driven by "its extremist ideology" means that "all fronts are still open."

Artificial intelligence and humanity.

US defense firm Anduril faces setbacks from drone crashes

Anduril's Altius drones crashed twice in tests this month, including nosediving 8,000 feet into the ground

An Anduril Industries Altius 600M drone is displayed at the Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) trade exhibition in London, Britian, September 10, 2025