PULS

Israel’s multi-caliber, pod-based wheeled rocket launcher — a system that merges short-range saturation rockets, 300 km tactical ballistic missiles, and loitering munitions in a single vehicle, and has emerged as Europe’s primary non-US alternative to HIMARS.

Overview

The PULS (Precise & Universal Launching System) is a wheeled, pod-fed multiple rocket launcher developed by Elbit Systems. It traces its lineage to the Israeli Military Industries (IMI) Lynx MRL, and today fields a dual-pod architecture that accepts sealed launch pods for calibers from 122 mm to 370 mm — including unguided rockets, precision-guided EXTRA and Predator Hawk rounds, Delilah cruise missiles, and SkyStriker loitering munitions. Elbit’s product documentation stresses the “mix-and-match” capability: two independent pods on the same launcher can fire a different weapon type each, enabling a single vehicle to cover area suppression, deep precision strike, and organic battle-damage assessment without re-configuration. The system has been adopted by the IDF under the Lahav name, and since 2023 has secured major export contracts in Europe, Asia, and Latin America.

Development

The original IMI Lynx was unveiled at MSPO in 2013 as a multi-calibre launcher, and small batches were exported to Kazakhstan, Rwanda, and Azerbaijan before Elbit Systems acquired IMI in 2018. Wikipedia’s PULS article records those early deliveries and notes that the system was re-branded as PULS after the acquisition. The IDF first fielded the PULS — designated Lahav — in 2020, but the programme’s transformational moment came after Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine, when European states urgently sought precision rocket artillery free of US export-chain dependence. Denmark became the launch export customer in March 2023 (8 units on Tatra T815 chassis), and the Netherlands followed in May 2023 with a 20-launcher order on a mix of Tatra and Scania Gryphus 8×8 platforms. Elbit’s Netherlands contract announcement values the deal at $305 million. The September 2023 teaming agreement between Elbit and KNDS Deutschland created the EuroPULS variant, later designated MARS III for the Bundeswehr. Germany ordered an initial five EuroPULS units in February 2025, with a subsequent framework agreement for up to 500 systems — roughly half for the Bundeswehr and the remainder open to European partners — disclosed in March 2026. Meta-Defense reports that parliamentary finalization is expected in H2 2026. Parallel licence-production deals have followed: India’s NIBE Limited signed a technology-collaboration agreement in July 2025, leading to an Indian Army emergency-procurement order for the Suryastra system in January 2026, and Thailand’s Defence Technology Institute continues testing the D-11A variant.

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