Israel Aerospace Industries
Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd, Israel's second-largest weapons manufacturer and government-owned entity, produces the Heron TP killer drone and Zibar tactical utility vehicle supplied to the Israeli military. In November 2023, the company's CEO stated that Heron drones had "played a pivotal role" in Israel's military operations in Gaza, and Germany approved Israel's use of two IAI-manufactured Heron TP drones for operations there in early October 2023. IAI maintains facilities in illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank and Golan Heights, and the Israeli military ordered approximately $27 million worth of Zibar vehicles in 2022.
Palladyne plans to put new AI swarming software on the battle-proven Israeli drones and compete for contracts like the Army’s Long-Range Precision Munition (LRPM), CEO Ben Wolff told Breaking Defense.
Read more →Sales of battle-tested Israeli arms more than doubled over past 5 years, hitting record of nearly $15 billion in 2024, including to states that publicly avoid deals with Jerusalem The post Demand soars for Israel’s weapons tech, even among countries claiming to boycott Jewish state appeared first on The Times of Israel.
Read more →Further, all the systems are based on a standard container configuration and can be deployed, replaced, or reconfigured “within a matter of hours” if the situation calls for it.
Read more →Israel Aerospace Industries signed a follow-on $3.1B Arrow 3 missile defense deal with Germany — the second after a prior $3.5B contract — as Israeli defense firms capitalize on combat-tested technology from Gaza operations. Germany is now Israel's second-largest arms customer.
Read more →SIPRI reported that revenues of the top global arms producers surged significantly as major wars including Gaza and Ukraine drove demand; IAI revenues reached $5.19B and RTX benefited from Iron Dome replenishment orders.
Read more →Internal documents show Amazon sold cloud-computing services to Israeli weapons manufacturers Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and IAI throughout 2024 and 2025 while they produced munitions used in Gaza.
Read more →In December, two weapons makers – Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) and Airbus – announced they had signed a “follow-on” contract with Frontex, the EU’s border guard agency.
Read more →Airbus DS Airborne Solutions and IAI were selected by Frontex for a second term of Mediterranean maritime UAV surveillance using the IAI Maritime Heron system.
Read more →Airbus signed a $600M deal with IAI to lease Heron TP drones to Germany's Defence Ministry; those drones were used in Gaza from October 2023 and co-developed with Israel's MoD.
Read more →A 63-page Israeli government procurement document shows two leading state-owned Israeli weapons manufacturers, IAI and Rafael, are required to use Amazon and Google for all cloud computing needs.
Read more →In 2018, Airbus signed a $600 million deal with Israel Aerospace to lease Heron TP drones to the German military. Israel uses drones such as these patrol the skies of the besieged Gaza Strip. Between 2008 and 2021 Airbus applied to the British government for an export license to supply weapons and military technology to …
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