Translation of “Lebanon Debate”
Israel is preparing to transfer an increasing portion of the tasks of combat, reconnaissance, supply, and evacuation of wounded soldiers to robots, after the “FUSE” company, affiliated with the “Elbit Systems” group, revealed a new military system that combines artificial intelligence with swarms of drones, autonomous vehicles, and offensive weapons.
According to a report by journalist Avi Ashkenazi in the Maariv newspaper, the discovery comes in light of the Israeli army’s study of the experiences of the Russian-Ukrainian war, after that front demonstrated the ability of unmanned means to carry out full field operations and reduce the presence of soldiers inside dangerous areas.
The company behind the project, Elbit Systems, is a major Israeli group specialized in defense industries and military technology, and works in the fields of aviation, space, land and sea systems, unmanned aircraft, munitions, intelligence and surveillance, electronic warfare, communications, command and control. The company says it employs more than 21,000 people in dozens of countries across 5 continents, and the value of its backlog of orders reached $32 billion as of the end of June 2026.
As for “FUSE”, it is the arm of “Elbit” that specializes in autonomous military systems and robots supported by artificial intelligence. It integrates drones, unmanned ground vehicles and manned platforms into a single network, allowing a single operator to manage large numbers of them in real time.
FUSE strengthened its land capabilities in May 2026 when it acquired all shares of the Israeli company Bluewhite, which specializes in converting traditional vehicles into autonomous vehicles and managing its fleets through software. Thus, the company combined drone swarms, ground robots, and joint work between manned and unmanned forces.
In the new presentation, the company revealed mechanisms capable of operating supply convoys and evacuating the wounded from the battlefield without drivers, in addition to robots that move alongside the forces and carry weapons starting from individual weapons and up to heavy weapons.
It also displayed drones capable of transporting equipment to units located deep in the field, and the report said that means of this type were recently used to drop blood units for the benefit of the Israeli army forces. Some drones can fly for a distance of more than 100 kilometers.
The missions are not limited to reconnaissance and transportation, as the system includes attack squadrons, drones capable of launching missiles, and suicide drones that directly attack the target, while artificial intelligence coordinates their movements and links them to the ground forces.
These means operate through a central operating system called “Dominion-X,” which allows large numbers of air and ground platforms to be managed by a single operator, and the exchange of mission and target information between them in real time.
According to the company, the system can work in areas where GPS signals or satellite navigation systems are not available, and it also has capabilities to automatically identify targets and head towards them. It aims to integrate robots into existing command and control systems, without the need to build a separate military network.
“FUSE” says that its technologies have accumulated more than 1,000,000 operational flight hours, in addition to more than 100,000 hours of autonomous ground operation, and that it has delivered thousands of drones and hundreds of unmanned ground platforms to customers around the world.
The company’s portfolio includes an unmanned digital tactical force for reconnaissance and attack missions, and the “PIRANI-X” squadron dedicated to detecting and attacking targets, in addition to robots for fighting inside cities and attacking targets located in buildings and fortified complexes.
The system also includes land and air means that accompany manned armored vehicles or depart from them, and border protection systems using fixed and mobile robots and drones that can monitor large areas with minimal human intervention.
The company also displayed the “THOR”, “Magni-X” and “X-intra” families of drones, which can be carried inside backpacks and quickly deployed. These means perform reconnaissance, surveillance, target discovery, communications transmission, electronic warfare support, supply, and attack missions.
FUSE CEO Eyal Dahan said that armies are entering a new era in which the effectiveness of combat will not be determined by the quality of robots alone, but rather by their ability to coordinate large numbers of them and integrate them in real time within maneuvering forces.
Thus, the Israeli plan is not based on producing a single drone or robotic vehicle, but rather on creating an integrated automated combat force that moves, monitors, transports, and attacks, while the soldiers remain at a greater distance from the line of fire.
