Eleven Israeli companies in the Israeli Defence-AI Deployment Index build counter-drone systems. Six of them clear the index's evidence bar of L2 or higher: five have a publicly announced order behind them, and one has a published report of operational use instead. The other five do not clear it. This is the list of the six, with the publisher and the link for each, because Israeli counter-drone contracts are the one part of this market a buyer can check without asking anyone.
How the six were selected
The index grades each company on the strongest publicly published evidence that its system has been procured or used. This article takes every counter-UAS entry graded L2 · Contract or higher and reproduces its source. It excludes companies whose public record consists of trials, evaluations or exhibition demonstrations, and companies with no independent public corroboration of a defence application at all. The grading rules and the complete index are published in full.
One qualifier before the list. Two of the six sources are company-issued and are labelled as such below. A press release is a dated, checkable fact about what a company said; it is not the same class of evidence as an outlet reporting independently, and the difference is worth keeping in view when comparing entries.
The one company graded L3 · Operational
Robotican — founded 2013, Omer (some sources list Yeruham). Robotican builds interceptor drones that physically capture other drones. The index's L3 source is a January 2024 NoCamels report, "Combat drones that catch prey in mid-air and underground", which describes operational use rather than an order. Robotican is one of the 13 Israeli defence-AI companies with documented operational use and the only counter-UAS company on that list.
The five companies graded L2 · Contract
Airobotics / Iron Drone Raider (Ondas) — Israel, Tel Aviv area. The Iron Drone Raider interceptor sits inside Ondas Holdings. The index cites an Ondas investor-relations release announcing a $3.4 million order for the system. This is a company-issued source, published through investor relations, which means the figure carries securities-disclosure weight but the customer is not independently confirmed.
Autonomous Guard (Skylock / BeeSense) — Israel, listed on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange as AGRD. The index's source is a March 2026 report in The Defense Post on the company's counter-drone business. A listed company gives a buyer a second route to verification: periodic reporting to the exchange, which sits outside the vendor's marketing function.
D-Fend Solutions — founded 2017, Ra'anana. D-Fend's EnforceAir2 takes control of a target drone rather than jamming or destroying it. Unmanned Systems Technology reported the system being used by the US Army during Combined Resolve 25-02. That is a named force, a named product and a named event, and under the index's rules it grades L2 rather than L3 because Combined Resolve is a training exercise, not operations. The distinction is applied identically to every entry, and the reasoning is set out in how to verify a defence AI vendor's deployment claims.
Magos Systems — founded 2010, Rehovot. Magos builds radar for perimeter and low-altitude detection. The Times of Israel reported that the company had clinched a deal to supply a drone attack warning system to the Israeli army. The customer is named in the report, which puts this entry among the better-sourced L2 records in the category.
Sentrycs — founded 2017, Tel Aviv. Sentrycs' protocol-based approach detects and takes over target drones. The index cites a PR Newswire release announcing multimillion-dollar deals to protect military bases in Europe. This is a company-issued source and the customers are not named, which is the standard shape of a European defence announcement rather than anything unusual about this company.
What these Israeli counter-drone contracts do not say
Four of the six sources do not name the end customer, and none of the six names the quantity or the configuration delivered. That is normal. Counter-UAS buyers are often reluctant to publish what protects their sites, and vendors are frequently contractually barred from saying. The consequence for a buyer is specific: a publicly announced contract establishes commercial traction and establishes nothing about detection rates, false-alarm behaviour or performance against the drone types in your threat picture. The structural version of this problem is treated in the undisclosed-customer problem.
Note also what the six sources have in common: not one of them is a government award notice. Israeli counter-drone business is largely announced by the seller or reported by the trade press, rather than published by the buyer, which is why primary award databases return so little on this category.
The five that did not qualify, and why
Five further counter-UAS entries sit below the threshold for this list. Althimis, founded 2023 in Tel Aviv, is graded L1 on a July 2026 report in The Defense Post describing its Guardian drone defences at trial stage. AeroNous Solutions, Cogniteam, Insight Intelligent Sensors and Skapion are each graded L0, meaning the company claims a defence application and no independent public source corroborates it.
None of that is a judgment about the products. A single published order would move any of the five immediately. All eleven entries, at every grade, are set out in the Israeli counter-UAS category pillar, and the reasons this category is the densest in the index are examined in counter-UAS is the most crowded category.
Limits of this reading
This list records publication, not capability, and it is bounded by the index's fifty-company scope. It excludes the large Israeli primes by design, so it is not a map of Israeli counter-drone supply; it is a map of Israeli counter-drone startups whose procurement has reached print in English.
Government-to-government sales, classified programmes and Hebrew-only coverage are all invisible to this method, and all three are material in this sector. A company absent from this list may have sold more than a company on it. What can be said is narrower and firmer: for these six, a source exists, it is dated, and a reader can open it.
Frequently asked questions
Which Israeli counter-drone companies have publicly announced contracts?
Six: Robotican, Airobotics / Iron Drone Raider under Ondas, Autonomous Guard, D-Fend Solutions, Magos Systems and Sentrycs. Robotican is graded higher because its source reports operational use rather than an order. Each entry above links to the specific published source.
Does a counter-drone contract announcement name the customer?
Usually not. Four of the six sources here describe the buyer only by region or category, such as military bases in Europe. Sites protected by counter-drone systems are rarely disclosed, so omission of the customer is the norm in this category rather than a signal about a particular vendor.
Why is a system used in a NATO exercise not graded as operational?
The index reserves its top grade for a named public source reporting use by a military in actual operations. Exercises, trials and evaluations are graded one step below. D-Fend's reported use during Combined Resolve 25-02 is a strong, checkable record of fielding in an exercise setting.
Sources
- idf.ai, The Israeli Defense-AI Deployment Index v1.0, 24 August 2026
- NoCamels, Combat drones that catch prey in mid-air and underground, January 2024
- Ondas Holdings investor relations, Ondas secures $3.4 million order for Iron Drone Raider
- The Defense Post, Autonomous Guard, 19 March 2026
- Unmanned Systems Technology, D-Fend Solutions EnforceAir2 deployed by U.S. Army during Combined Resolve 25-02
- The Times of Israel, Radar tech AI startup clinches deal for drone attack warning system to Israeli army
- PR Newswire, Sentrycs secures multimillion-dollar deals to protect military bases in Europe
- The Defense Post, Althimis Guardian drone defences, 28 July 2026
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.