Shifters: Robots on the frontline
Shifters’ platform is built around supervised autonomy, where robotic teams can operate in complex environments while remaining under human oversight.
Defense & Tech
Europe condemns Israel while arms makers buy billions in Israeli weapons - opinion
Thirty interceptions a minute: An Israeli startup's drone solution
UK adopts SpaceX's Starshield for military operations, sources say
Motorola to acquire Israeli leader in counter-drone solutions, in historic USD 1.5b. deal
Motorola's entry into a definitive agreement to acquire D-Fend, which operates across more than 30 countries with an expected 2026 revenue of USD 185m., capitalizes on the Safer Skies Act.
XTEND selected for Pentagon’s Drone Dominance Program Phase II
The Pentagon’s Drone Dominance Program is one of the largest drone initiatives in US military history, aiming to procure over 200,000 drones by 2027.
Moving beyond Western paradigms: The geopolitical lesson of India’s multi-alignment- opinion
New Delhi operates on the understanding that hard military and economic power cannot be divorced from soft power and personal diplomacy
France bans Israel from defense exhibition, limits Israeli companies to showing defensive weapons
This means that the government and the ministry will be unable to participate in the exhibition or establish a national pavilion at EUROSATORY.
Elbit subsidiary acquires Israeli autonomous AI-powered off-road robotic warfare company
'Autonomy and robotics are reshaping how defense forces operate today' - Eyal Dahan, CEO of FUSE, an Elbit Systems subsidiary.
Israeli AI defense-tech firm Airis Labs emerges from stealth with $60m. in funding
Airis Labs turns unstructured visual data from smartphones, social media, digital forensics, security and body cameras, and drones into machine-readable intelligence
No shots fired since the ceasefire - opinion
The war between Iran and Israel has become psychological and economic
Defense establishment developing new solutions against Hezbollah's fiber-optic FPV drones
At the same time, intelligence efforts have intensified to locate and strike drone operators. Additional air and ground firepower will reportedly be allocated to shorten the attack cycle.
Israel defense ecosystem meets to accelerate fieldable counter‑drone tech
Sparked by a message from the frontlines, CET Sandbox put together an urgent seminar to bring counter-drone tech to troops in the field who are scrambling to counter Hezbollah attack drones
Israeli defense tech companies High Lander and ThirdEye team up against hostile drones
The agreement will integrate ThirdEye’s MeduzaX optical‑detection system into High Lander’s Vega uncrewed traffic‑management platform
