Greece and Sweden committed €7.3 billion to new air defense on Monday, one day before EU ministers meet to ask Athens for the Patriot interceptors it already owns.
Rafael's laser remains short of operational service while Elbit carries a record $32 billion backlog and Greece advances a $4 billion missile-defense package.
Iron Wasp is a vehicle-mounted hard-kill counter-drone interceptor from Rafael and SpearUAV: a capsule-launched interceptor drone, derived from SpearUAV's Viper I, that lets armored vehicles physically destroy FPV drones and loitering munitions while on the move.
Israel ran its Iron Beam laser alongside Iron Dome for the first time in a joint drill, letting commanders trade $50,000 interceptors for near-free laser shots against cheap drones.
The Iron Dome maker is pushing aerial interception down to the individual vehicle, aimed at the fiber-optic FPV drones that shrug off jammers on the front.
Ofek satellites generated the targets and AI electronic warfare "opened" Iran's skies for an 18,000-bomb campaign, and both just won Israel's 2026 Defense Prize as the primes behind them sell the next generation.
Israel's Aeronautics Orbiter 4 is a Group 3 tactical UAS that packs 12 kg dual-payload ISR capability — EO/IR, SAR, SIGINT — into a 50 kg airframe with a 24-hour endurance and field-switchable VTOL option, already combat-proven in Gaza as the IAF's Nitzoz.
Israel's GPS-independent electro-optical bomb kit and glide-weapon family — a scene-matching system that converts unguided bombs into precision stand-off munitions, proven from Balakot to Tehran.
Israel’s Trophy (Windbreaker) — the world’s most combat-proven hard-kill active protection system, first to intercept an anti-tank missile in combat, now fielded on Merkava, Abrams, Leopard 2 and Challenger 3.
Israel's mid-tier mobile air and missile defense system — a hit-to-kill interceptor designed to defeat short-range ballistic missiles, large rockets, cruise missiles and aircraft, sitting between Iron Dome and the Arrow family and increasingly central to Israel's layered shield.
Britain, France and Germany agreed to back an anti-ballistic system built around Ukraine's FP-7.x interceptor, a $700,000 missile that just hit 25 km in testing, while German industry showed its own cheap-intercept hardware at ILA Berlin.
Israel’s first operational high-power laser air-defense system — a 100 kW directed-energy weapon designed to intercept rockets, mortar bombs and drones at a fraction of the cost of kinetic interceptors, now woven into the Iron Dome network.
Israel's battle-proven mobile system for intercepting short-range rockets, artillery shells, and drones — the bottom tier of a multi-layered air defense network, now also fielded by the US Marine Corps as MRIC.
