According to Frost & Sullivan, Israel is the largest UAV exporter in the world, with total revenue of approximately $4.62 billion between 2005 and 2012, an annual average of $578 million.
The Israeli UAV industry has many advantages, such as manufacturing high-quality products at low cost; the innovation and entrepreneurship that produce highly sophisticated technologies (such as the ability to land and takeoff automatically); and the fact that Israel is one of the only countries in the world with operational experience with various types of UAVs (assault, intelligence).
A great number of Israeli start-ups are trying to utilized the experience and information gained from the militarized application of UAV to new, ground breaking civil-commercial applications. Airobotics, who developed fully automated industrial drones, is only one stellar example.
Leading Israeli Companies: IAI, Elbit, Aeronautics, Rafael, Urban Aeronautics, UVision Air, and BlueBird Aero Systems.
