Defense Tech

Ukraine's Fire Point aims to produce ballistic missile interceptor by year-end

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

A firefighter works at the site of a recyclable materials warehouse hit by a Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine April 16, 2026.
Illustrative image of a drone

Why Lebanon’s deadliest tool still dominates, and the path to stopping it runs backward - opinion

NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN and Adolf Hitler leave their meeting at Bad Godesberg,  Sept. 23, 1938.

Israel must come up with its own Manhattan Project, but even faster and much better - opinion

A David's Sling interceptor launching during the Israel-Hamas war; illustrative.

Switzerland opens talks on Israeli air defense system amid Patriot delays


From Iron Dome to the final frontier: Hilla Haddad Chmelnik on Israel's defense legacy and the race

Moonshot Space CEO Hilla Haddad Chmelnik wants Israel to become the “FedEx to space” using kinetic launch technology.

Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile system intercepts rockets launched from the Gaza Strip, as seen from the city of Ashkelon, Israel, October 9, 2023.

Motorola to acquire Israeli leader in counter-drone solutions, in historic $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 $185m., capitalizes on the Safer Skies Act.

A delivery drone flies above skyscrapers in the Houhai Central Business District (CBD) in Nanshan District, China on May 22, 2026.

Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie team up to strip US-Israel military tech cooperation from defense bill

Khanna, and Massie both said over the weekend that they would seek to remove a provision from the House’s annual defense bill that would expand US-Israeli defense technology cooperation.

Reps. Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna conduct a news conference after reviewing unredacted portions of the Jeffrey Epstein files, outside a Department of Justice office in NoMa on Feb. 9, 2026.

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.

Skunk Works and Xtend are collaborating to expand joint all domain command and control

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

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses his supporters after he inaugurated a new terminal building of Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport in Guwahati, India, December 20, 2025.

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.

 A visitor walks past the Israeli pavilion during the Eurosatory International Defence Exhibition in Villepinte, north of Paris, France June 11, 2018.

Trump admin. in advanced talks to directly fund US drone firms to boost production - report

People familiar with the deal said it would allow drone makers to scale up production while simultaneously bringing down prices. The funding the US would supply would not be for buying drones

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth holds a briefing on the Iran war, with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine (not pictured), at the Pentagon in Washington, US, May 5, 2026.

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.

A Bluewhite autonomy kit installed on a BL Advance Systems BLR MK2 Platform.

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

ON THE front line of the cyber war, Israel has become one of the world’s most targeted countries for cyberattacks, with state-backed hackers increasingly using AI to probe government networks, companies, and critical infrastructure.

No shots fired since the ceasefire - opinion

The war between Iran and Israel has become psychological and economic

A billboard with a graphic design about the Strait of Hormuz on a building in Tehran, Iran, May 6, 2026.