Achilles Shield: Building a Comprehensive Air Defense System for Greece
By integrating missiles, radars, command-and-control, and electronic warfare, Greece’s planned Achilles Shield creates a multi-layered, unified air defense network capable of matching each threat with the most effective response. This article looks at opportunities beyond the current 3.1 billion procurement of Israeli air defenses and Hellenic electronic systems.
War-Tested, In Demand: Inside Rafael’s Arsenal
Two rounds of war with Iran put Rafael Advanced Defense Systems' technology to the ultimate test — from precision munitions and the Spike missile family to layered air defenses and a hypersonic interceptor now in development. Backed by a record NIS 74 billion order backlog (about 25 billion US$), Rafael is also exporting rocket-propulsion technology to the US for the first time, through a new joint venture with Kratos.
Six Weeks, Three Systems – Israel Just Tested Its Entire Air Defense Stack
In the span of six weeks, Israel's defense establishment has tested nearly its entire air and missile defense architecture, Iron Dome and the Iron Beam laser in June, SPYDER's upgraded interceptors in July, and Arrow over the skies of Ashdod in August. Together, the three trials trace one story: an industry compressing years of upgrade cycles into weeks, driven by two years of continuous wartime lessons.
Fire Point Steps into the Limelights
For most of its four-year existence, Fire Point could rarely be described with confidence, until Eurosatory 2026, where the Kyiv-based missile and drone maker exhibited under its own name for the first time, laying out its entire declared missile family from the battle-proven FP-1/FP-2 strike drones to the previously unseen FP-7 and FP-9 ballistic systems. The bigger news broke alongside the hardware: an agreement with 12 nations to co-develop FREYJA, a European ground-based interceptor system pitched to do what Patriot does at a sixth to an eighth of the cost. Four years after a handful of friends with no defense background bought a shell company, Fire Point is now angling to be prime contractor on one of Europe's most ambitious missile-defense projects.
Inside the Interceptor Shortage That’s Leaving Kyiv Exposed
On the night of August 1, Ukraine shot down 83 percent of the drones Russia sent toward Kyiv — and just one of twenty-seven ballistic missiles. Three days after Washington committed $58.6 billion to fixing its Patriot shortage, the interceptor gap is playing out in real time over five districts of the Ukrainian capital.
