Israeli Defense Industry

Elbit America is Elbit Systems' US subsidiary headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas. $2B+ revenue. The structural vehicle Elbit built to lock into US def…

Largest Israeli commercial defense-electronics company. FY2024 revenue $7B, backlog above $22B. Founded 1966, current corporate form 1996. Federmann f…

Israel invented the loitering munition category in the 1980s. Forty years later, the Israeli cohort — IAI Harop, UVision Hero, Elbit Skystriker — stil…

DECA, Israel's Defense Export Controls Agency, licensed a record $14.795 billion in 2024 weapons exports. How the agency works, why Washington pushed…

The 2018 acquisition of state-owned Israel Military Industries by Elbit Systems for NIS 1.8 billion collapsed Israel's fragmented land-warfare industr…

Israel absorbed a 1.2 million work-hour monthly loss without breaking its export sector. Faster labor demobilization than any comparable war economy o…

Israel's three largest defense companies operate across 15+ US states. Elbit in Fort Worth (11 facilities), Rafael Iron Dome in Arkansas, IAI in Hernd…

Four operators anchor the post-2020 Israeli defense startup wave: Line5 (autonomous aircraft), Smart Shooter (small-arms fire control), D-Fend (RF cou…

UVision's Hero loitering munitions and SpearUAV's Ninox platform anchored a $982M US Army procurement through Mistral. One of the largest single US Ar…