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20 stories about UAV
Attis Aviation ROC render 2

“As a UAV startup it’s difficult to get funds”

02.11.25|Amy Shapiro
Despite a challenging investment climate, Attis Aviation is preparing to debut its flagship ROC system, as it looks to answer the need for multi-domain capabilities in modern unmanned aviation.
Octoper and Hermes 900

“You can buy from China, but you don’t really know what’s inside,” say Israel’s defense drone giants

05.10.25|Amy Shapiro
As part of CTech’s drone series, Aeronautics and Elbit, two of Israel’s largest defense tech companies, discuss how UAVs and UASs have reshaped and continue to reshape the battlefield, how recent conflict has impacted their development, and what is shaping the future of the sector. 
UVision Hero 120 on armored vehicle

“Our drone is a one-way ticket”: Inside UVision’s deadly marriage of surveillance and strike

28.09.25|Amy Shapiro
As part of CTech’s series on Israel’s unmanned aerialscape, UVision EVP Itzik Huber explains how loitering munitions merge the intelligence of UAVs with the strike power of missiles, and the way that combination is reshaping modern warfare.
Spear UAV Operator

"An organic air force": Swarms, autonomy, and the future of drones

31.08.25|Amy Shapiro
As part of CTech’s series on Israel’s unmanned aerialscape, Spear UAV's CEO explains how the Israeli company is pioneering encapsulated drones and pushing tactical UAVs into a new era as an airborne extension of the battalion.
Lowental Hybrid founders

Israeli UAV firm Lowental Hybrid lands $5M Seed funding with backing from Palo Alto founder Nir Zuk

03.02.25|CTech
The startup’s hybrid tech promises to boost UAV endurance by fivefold.
מערכת VEYE זיהוי וגילוי רחפני נפץ וכט"במים של חברת עין שלישית

Israeli defense firm Thirdeye partners with Abu Dhabi’s Edge Defense Group

28.01.25|Noam Landman
$10.3 million deal includes a joint venture to revolutionize drone detection systems.
פודקאסט ועידת התחזיות 2025 – ד"ר לירן ענתבי

Space has become the most important battlefield in regional wars due to the increasing role of UAVs

02.01.25|Elihay Vidal
Dr. Liran Antebi, a senior research fellow at the Yuval Ne'eman Workshop for Science, Technology, and Security at Tel Aviv University, shared these insights in a podcast interview about global drone warfare. 
נקסטויז'ן extvision drone

The Israeli company developing the eyes behind suicide drones

06.04.22|Yafit Ovadia
NextVision Stabilized Systems’ cameras enable drones to monitor areas like never before, and hone in and attack targets, when needed
מל"ט הרון TP מל"ט הרון איתן התעשייה האווירית

U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan to end 20 years of Israeli weapon deals

22.08.21|Udi Etsion
Although the Israeli military had no part in the war in Afghanistan, its defense industries sold weapons such as drones, armor for APCs and anti-tank missiles to the United States and other ally forces, totaling over a billion dollars
מוסף שבועי 29.11.18 רן קראוס בעלי חברת איירובוטיקס

Airobotics IPO flops, cutbacks imminent

17.08.21|Golan Hazani
Calcalist has learned that the Israeli UAV company didn't manage to raise the $12 million it had planned at a $50 million valuation, with the demand not even reaching the minimum threshold
רוברט כהן בנסון אוק

A global perspective: how individual empowerment can transcend hatred

18.05.21|Robert Cohen
"The conflicts get the attention but there are ample places here where hi-tech is truly bringing sides together," writes Robert Cohen
מל"ט הרמס 900

Elbit Systems scores major deal to sell Hermes 900 UAVs to East-Asian country

01.03.21|Udi Etsion
Elbit beat out Israeli rival IAI, which will reportedly have to settle for a smaller order from the Indian air force
מוסף שבועי 29.11.18 רן קראוס בעלי חברת איירובוטיקס

Airobotics planning to raise $50 million at $240 million valuation in TASE IPO

25.01.21|Meir Orbach
The drone manufacturer has raised $132 million to date and is in the midst of building a center in Dubai
מל"ט מזל"ט כטב"מ הרון Heron MK II התעשייה האווירית 2020 תערוכה סינגפור

IAI signs two deals supplying Heron MK II UAV Systems to undisclosed Asian country

25.01.21|James Spiro
The two deals will see Israel Aerospace Industries lease one of its unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), and sell another
בן אלפי

Robotics startup brings Israeli twist to agricultural drones

27.12.20|Yafit Ovadia
Blue White Robotics completed its first pollination of dates using drones and is bringing Israel’s military specialty in UAVs to the agricultural sector
מאזניים בית משפט בי פוסט

Inventors of self-flying crop duster sue IAI for squeezing them out of project

29.11.20|Lital Dobrovitsky
Defense giant says the lawsuit is ‘baseless’ after former employee says he was fired so the company could develop the project behind his back
דידי הורן  מייסד SkyX

SkyX to open R&D center in Israel, hire 50 people

15.11.20|Meir Orbach
Founded by Israeli Didi Horn, SkyX develops long-range drones for aerial scanning and data analysis
משלוח פיצה באמצעות רחפן

Delivery drones edging closer to becoming a reality in Israel

03.11.20|Udi Etsion
Drones are now being used at the Ziv Medical Center in Safed to deliver medicine and test kits within its complex
מלטים התעשייה האווירית האיחוד האירופי הרון

EU Border and Coast Guard Agency to lease Maritime Herons from IAI

20.10.20|Udi Etsion
Leasing deals have come to make up a substantial part of IAI’s UAV sales volume, says marketing exec