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DISPATCH 02/26 · 11 Jun 2026
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Orbiter 4

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.

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SPICE

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.

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Trophy APS

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.

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David's Sling

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.

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Ukraine

Europe's Patriot alternative runs on a $700,000 Ukrainian missile

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.

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Iron Beam

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.

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Iron Dome

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.