Of the 50 Israeli military AI companies in the Israeli Defence-AI Deployment Index, 13 have a named public source reporting that a military has used their system in actual operations. The remaining 37 do not. This is the list of the 13, grouped by category, with the publisher and the link for every entry, so that a reader can check each one rather than take the grading on trust.
What the L3 grade requires
L3 · Operational means a named public source reports the system has been used by a military in actual operations. Three things are excluded by that wording. Training exercises do not qualify, however senior the force involved. Trials, evaluations and exhibition demonstrations do not qualify. A company statement without independent corroboration does not qualify, which is why the distinction between a press release and reporting does most of the work at this tier.
Nine of the 13 sources below are English-language news outlets or trade publications reporting in their own voice. That is the pattern the grade is designed to isolate: somebody other than the vendor described the system in use, on a date, in a document that is still online. The grading rules and the full 50-company index are published alongside this list.
Autonomous air systems: three companies
eyesAtop — founded 2015, location not publicly stated. Software for controlling multiple uncrewed aircraft from a single operator position. The index's source is a report by Calcalist's CTech.
UVision Air — Israel; founding year not publicly stated. Mini loitering munitions. Janes reported the IDF using UVision's mini loitering munition, which is the strongest class of source in this list: a defence intelligence publisher naming the force and the system.
XTEND — founded 2018, Tel Aviv. Operator-guided autonomy for small drones. The index's source is a report by Ynetnews.
ISR, C2 and decision support: four companies
Axon Vision — founded 2017, Tel Aviv. Battlefield perception and sensor fusion. Globes reported the IDF using Axon Vision's AI to combat drones.
ThirdEye Systems — founded 2010, Netanya. Onboard vision for uncrewed platforms. The Times of Israel reported a UAE conglomerate taking a $10 million stake in the company alongside a drone technology deal, a source that also happens to document an export relationship.
mPrest Systems — founded 2003, Petah Tikva. Command-and-control software used as an integration layer across sensors and effectors. The index's source is a report by Calcalist's CTech.
Ottopia — founded 2018, Tel Aviv. Teleoperation software for remotely driven vehicles. The index's source is a report in The Jerusalem Post.
Ground, maritime and counter-drone: three companies
Roboteam — founded 2009, Tel Aviv, with US headquarters in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Uncrewed ground vehicles. Breaking Defense published an August 2025 report on the company and changes in unmanned combat.
TSG IT Advanced Systems — founded 1969, Or Yehuda. Autonomy and control software for military ground robots. The index's source is a report in The Jerusalem Post.
Robotican — founded 2013, Omer, with some sources listing Yeruham. Interceptor drones that physically capture other drones. NoCamels reported in January 2024 on combat drones that catch targets in mid-air and underground. Robotican is also the only counter-UAS company above L2; the rest of that category is covered in Israeli counter-drone companies with publicly announced contracts.
Simulation, training and fire control: three companies
Bagira Systems — founded 1995, Modi'in. Instrumented training and combat simulation systems. The index's source is a report by Israel Defense.
Combatica — founded 2021, Petah Tikva. Virtual-reality rehearsal environments for security forces. NoCamels reported in March 2024 on the platform being used to train security forces.
SMARTSHOOTER — founded 2011, Kibbutz Yagur. Fire-control optics that compute the firing solution at the trigger. Breaking Defense reported in June 2025 that the company says the US Army is expanding use of the system. Note the attribution in that headline: the outlet is independent, the claim about expansion is the company's.
How these Israeli military AI companies cluster
Thirteen entries out of fifty is the index's central finding, and it is examined at length in the deployment evidence gap. Two further observations are worth making here for anyone using this list as a shortlist.
First, the 13 skew toward categories where operational use is visible from outside: air systems, ISR, ground robotics. Software that sits inside a headquarters is used no less, and is reported far less. mPrest and Ottopia reach L3 in spite of that, not because of it.
Second, an L3 grade attaches to a company and a moment of reporting, not to a product line in perpetuity. A 2024 report establishes 2024. Nothing in this list confirms that any of these systems is in use today, and a buyer should date every source before relying on it. The method for doing that is set out in how to verify a defence AI vendor's deployment claims.
Limits of this reading
This list measures publication, not capability, and says nothing about how well any of these systems performed. The index contains no technical performance data by design.
The sample is bounded and English-weighted. Fifty companies is a working index rather than a census of a sector holding several hundred firms, and the reliance on English-language sources under-reads companies covered only in Hebrew. Because the index also excludes the large Israeli primes, this is not a list of Israel's most-used defence AI; it is a list of the startups and mid-size firms whose operational use somebody chose to publish.
The reverse error matters as much. A company absent from this list may hold classified contracts, sell government to government, or be barred by its customer from saying anything at all. Absence here is absence of publication. What would move a company onto the list, and what would not, is set out in what moves a company from L0 to L3.
Frequently asked questions
Which Israeli AI companies have confirmed military operational use?
Thirteen companies in the index have a named public source reporting operational military use: Axon Vision, Bagira Systems, Combatica, eyesAtop, mPrest Systems, Ottopia, Roboteam, Robotican, SMARTSHOOTER, ThirdEye Systems, TSG IT Advanced Systems, UVision Air and XTEND. Each entry above links to its source.
What counts as operational use in this index?
A named public source must report that a military used the system in actual operations. Training exercises, trials, evaluations and exhibition demonstrations are graded one tier below, and a company statement with no independent corroboration is graded two tiers below that.
Does this list rank the companies against each other?
No. The 13 all meet the same evidential threshold and are grouped by category, not ordered by merit. The index grades the strength of public evidence and does not assess capability, price, performance or suitability for any particular requirement.
Sources
- idf.ai, The Israeli Defense-AI Deployment Index v1.0, 24 August 2026
- Globes, IDF using Axon Vision's AI to combat drones
- Israel Defense, report on Bagira Systems
- NoCamels, VR platform trains security forces in eerily hyper-real scenarios, March 2024
- Calcalist CTech, report covering eyesAtop
- Calcalist CTech, report covering mPrest Systems
- The Jerusalem Post, report covering Ottopia
- Breaking Defense, Israeli robotic defense firm sees big change in unmanned combat, August 2025
- NoCamels, Combat drones that catch prey in mid-air and underground, January 2024
- Breaking Defense, Israel's SMARTSHOOTER says US Army expanding use of high-tech fire control system, June 2025
- The Times of Israel, UAE conglomerate inks $10m drone tech deal to buy stake in Israel's ThirdEye
- The Jerusalem Post, report covering TSG IT Advanced Systems
- Janes, IDF using UVision mini loitering munition
- Ynetnews, report covering XTEND
Independent publication of idf.ai. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to the Israel Defense Forces, the Israeli Ministry of Defense, or any government body. Compiled entirely from publicly published sources. No classified, restricted or non-public information. Listed companies may dispute any entry: send the published source that contradicts it and the entry will be amended or removed.