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Independent evidence index
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Military AI,documented.

Fifty Israeli defense-AI companies, graded by what has actually been fielded — and who says so. Every grade carries a link to the source that supports it.

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50 companiesPublic sources onlyUpdated 24 Aug 2026

A procurement officer evaluating Israeli suppliers asks one question that existing directories do not answer: has this actually been fielded, and who says so?

The published landscape maps of Israeli defense technology count between 60 and 334 companies each. They are organised by product category and annotated with funding stage — early stage, mature, acquired. That is an investor's frame. It tells you a company closed a Series B. It does not tell you whether the product has left the demonstration tent.

This index applies one filter instead: for each company, what is the strongest piece of publicly published evidence that its system has been procured or used, and where can you read it yourself. Every grade below carries a link. Where the only available source is the company's own press release, the entry says so.

Of the 50 companies indexed here, 13 have a public source describing operational military use. The other 37 — three quarters of the field — do not. That distribution is the finding, not a gap in the research.

The value here is not the length of the list. It is what falls to the bottom of it.

Grading

L3 · OPERATIONAL

A named public source reports the system has been used by a military in actual operations. Training exercises do not qualify.

13 of 50
L2 · CONTRACT

A publicly announced procurement contract or order exists, but no reported operational use.

22 of 50
L1 · TRIAL

Public trials, pilots, military evaluations or exhibition demonstrations only.

6 of 50
L0 · CLAIMED

The company claims a defense application. No independent public source corroborates it.

9 of 50

The index is revised as evidence changes

Companies move between grades when a contract is announced or a deployment is reported. Get the revision log when the next version publishes.

No tracking beyond aggregate page statistics. One email per revision.

Method

How entries are graded

  1. Every grade requires a working URL a sceptical reader can open and check. No verifying source means the entry is graded L0.
  2. Claims are reported, never assessed. Entries state what was published, by whom, and when — not what the author believes.
  3. Company-sourced claims are flagged as such inside the entry, including where they support a high grade.
  4. Founder background is included only where a named public source has published it. Unit affiliations are never inferred.
  5. Products are not linked to specific named strikes or casualties, even where press reporting has done so.

Known limitations of this version

Fifty entries is a working index, not a census. The sector holds several hundred companies and this sample is weighted toward those with English-language coverage — which biases against smaller firms that publish only in Hebrew.

Contract announcements frequently omit the customer, so an L2 grade often means "a defense ministry somewhere signed something." That is a real limit of public sourcing, not an oversight.

Three categories came back almost bare, and that is reported as a finding rather than a gap: active protection, targeting and fire control and military logistics and sustainment yield one qualifying company each. Under this index's inclusion test, Israeli AI in those areas is still a primes' business — the UK's Project THESEUS sustainment programme down-selected Rafael and IAI, not startups.

Corrections

Listed companies may dispute any entry. Send the published source that contradicts it and the entry will be amended or removed.