Defense & Tech

Estonia’s drone gamble is rewriting NATO’s frontline defense - opinion

Estonia is redirecting €500M from armored vehicles to drones, aiming to become a global unmanned‑systems leader as Russia escalates hybrid threats along NATO’s eastern flank.

A member of the Lava Unmanned Systems Regiment, Norman, poses for a photograph with a Bulava strike drone, a kamikaze UAV capable of carrying a 3.5-kilogram payload with a range of up to 100 kilometers in Kharkiv region, Ukraine.

Israel successfully tests improved Arrow system as defense upgrades accelerate

VISITORS VIEW a model of the Arrow 3 interceptor missile on display at an aerospace conference in Jerusalem.

Zamir holds meeting with General Staff Forum on building IDF, expanding robotics development

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir attends the graduation ceremony of an IDF officers’ course in southern Israel, June 25, 2026; Illustrative.

Ukraine's Fire Point starts to integrate European tech into missile defense system

Smoke billows from a warehouse, after deadly Ukrainian drone attacks, as per regional governors, in Elektrostal, Moscow Region, Russia, July 18, 2026, in this screen grab obtained from a social media video.

Israel to deploy new AI radar system on Lebanon border to detect Hezbollah drones

Hundreds of systems will be deployed in the Lebanese border area, to significantly improve detection and identification of Hezbollah's fiber-optic drones.

JUNE 30, 2026ByANNA AHRONHEIM, DEAN SHMUEL ELMAS/GLOBES/TNS

Israel Shipyards launches AREONOUS to hunt FPV drones with autonomous net-launching kits

The system can operate across several ranges, from 50 km for protecting airports and bases down to 200 meters as a soldier-portable system to protect maneuvering forces at their staging areas.

JUNE 30, 2026ByUDI ETZION

A DJI Mini 3 drone flies above the ground on February 8, 2026 in Radstock, England.

Israel developing space lasers to attack above the Earth, Katz says

"As of today, no country has the ability to mount attacks in space. We must be the leading country in the world with this capability," said Katz.

JUNE 29, 2026ByYONAH JEREMY BOB

$DELIVERED TO the IDF late last year, the Iron Beam system marks a historic milestone – the world’s first operational laser defense platform capable of neutralizing rockets, drones, and mortars at a fraction of the cost of traditional interceptors.$

Ukraine launches TrophyLab to share technical data from captured Russian equipment

Goal of platform is to "turn the aggressor’s captured technologies into a growth point for the global engineering community"

JUNE 29, 2026ByANNA AHRONHEIM

Ukraine launches TrophyLab for captured Russian equipment

Romania buys Israeli air defense system in Rafael’s biggest deal ever

The deal is the largest contract in Rafael’s history and the second-largest defense deal in Israeli defense-industry history

JUNE 29, 2026ByANNA AHRONHEIM

Rafael Advanced Defense Systems's SPYDER air defense system

Ukraine's Fire Point aims to produce ballistic missile interceptor by year-end

Fire Point is on track to start flying tests over the summer for its new FP-9 ballistic missile, capable of carrying an 800-kg warhead up to 850 km

JUNE 28, 2026ByREUTERS

A firefighter works at the site of a recyclable materials warehouse hit by a Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine April 16, 2026.

Why Lebanon’s deadliest tool still dominates, and the path to stopping it runs backward - opinion

How a thread of glass made the West's most advanced air defenses useless, and dragged it back to a war it thought it had escaped

JUNE 28, 2026ByTAL PINKASOVICH

The next battlefield: IDF races to prepare for future wars in space, top general says - exclusive

MILITARY AFFAIRS: Brig.-Gen. Yael Grosman tells The Post why the IDF sees space as the next battlefield, while other IDF sources detail advances in AI, cyber, electronic warfare, and more.

JUNE 26, 2026ByYONAH JEREMY BOB