{"id":547915,"date":"2026-07-18T17:41:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T17:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/547915\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T17:41:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T17:41:11","slug":"israeli-startup-wants-to-stop-entire-drone-swarms-not-one-drone-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/547915\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Startup Wants to Stop Entire Drone Swarms, Not One Drone at a Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Israeli startup is taking a clean-sheet approach to countering drone swarms, designing a next-gen air defense system purpose-built to defeat large-scale attacks.<\/p>\n

Skapion said its technology is designed<\/a> to engage entire drone swarms as a whole rather than one drone at a time, reducing the cost per intercept while addressing the growing scale of aerial threats.<\/p>\n

Although the company has yet to disclose technical details, it said the system will feature a deployable, mobile design suited for protecting forces and critical infrastructure from evolving drone threats.<\/p>\n

\"\"(Representative only.) An Israeli drone mid-air. Image: Wikimedia Commons<\/p>\n

It is also expected to remain operational in signal-denied environments, giving forces greater flexibility in contested conditions.<\/p>\n

To accelerate development, Skapion has secured $36 million in seed funding. The investment will support hiring, system development and testing, and collaboration with allied agencies in Israel, the US, and other countries.<\/p>\n

Built by Air Defense Veterans<\/p>\n

Skapion\u2019s leadership team includes veterans of Israel\u2019s air defense industry, led by Chief Architect Brig. Gen. Pini Yungman, who helped develop the Iron Dome and David\u2019s Sling missile defense systems.<\/p>\n

CEO Ido Bar-On has also worked extensively with defense organizations and government agencies around the world.<\/p>\n

While headquartered in Washington, the company operates a research and development center in Ramat Gan, Israel, where it is expanding its workforce in electronics, software, autonomy, and aerospace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Israeli startup is taking a clean-sheet approach to countering drone swarms, designing a next-gen air defense system…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-547915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}