Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) is bringing a layered approach to air and missile defence to ADEX 2026, combining systems designed to detect aerial threats, disrupt them electronically and, when necessary, destroy them with an interceptor.
The company's display in Baku brings together BARAK MX, the HYPNOSIS electronic system and the SCORPIUS electronic warfare family, alongside early warning radars, precision-strike weapons, special mission aircraft and space systems.
IAI is presenting the technologies as complementary parts of a wider defence architecture rather than individual systems operating independently. The company is also using ADEX to underline its plans for greater knowledge transfer, local manufacturing and technological cooperation in Azerbaijan.
Multiple Layers
At the centre of the air defence display is BARAK MX, IAI's networked air and missile defence system for land and naval use.
BARAK MX is designed to connect sensors, battle management systems, launchers and different interceptors within a common architecture. According to IAI, the system can engage threats including UAVs, fighter aircraft, cruise missiles, rockets and tactical ballistic missiles.
The interceptor family provides several engagement ranges. BARAK SR has a range of 15 km, BARAK MR 35 km and BARAK LR 70 km, while BARAK ER extends coverage to 150 km. The interceptors share common components and are integrated through the system's battle management architecture.
IAI says the networked design also allows different units to share information and use sensors belonging to other elements of the air defence network. Land and naval air defence units can therefore be connected rather than operating as separate systems.
BARAK has also seen operational use. IAI had earlier that the system had successfully intercepted threats while in service with the Israeli Navy and Air Force.
At ADEX, IAI is placing that hard-kill capability alongside HYPNOSIS, which provides a soft-kill layer against aerial threats. Instead of physically destroying a target with an interceptor, the system is intended to interfere with threats that depend on satellite navigation, including UAVs and one-way attack systems.
SCORPIUS adds another electronic warfare element. IAI's ground-based Scorpius-G combines electronic support and electronic countermeasure functions and is designed to detect, analyse, locate, track and jam radio-frequency emitters over long distances.
Together, the systems illustrate the different methods now being brought into integrated air defence: detecting a threat, interfering with its electronic or navigation systems and retaining missiles to physically engage targets when required.
From Warning to Strike
IAI's ADEX portfolio extends beyond interception and electronic warfare.
The company is showing early warning radars together with its MMA special mission aircraft, providing another part of the surveillance and intelligence picture needed to identify threats before they can be engaged.
On the other side of the equation is precision strike. IAI is displaying its LORA weapon system and loitering munitions in Baku, while AIR LORA is making its first appearance at ADEX.
IAI describes AIR LORA as an air-launched stand-off weapon designed for precision strikes. Its inclusion broadens the company's ADEX display beyond surveillance and protection to systems intended to engage targets at distance.
The combination is significant to the way IAI has organised its presence at the exhibition. Early warning and intelligence systems are intended to find and track activity, electronic warfare systems can disrupt it, air defence interceptors provide protection against incoming threats, and precision weapons provide an offensive capability.
Space Connection
Space is another part of IAI's ADEX display, with the company's Mini Communications Satellite, or MCS, also making its debut at the Baku exhibition.
MCS carries a fully digital programmable communications payload. IAI says the satellite can provide high-rate, wide-bandwidth communications services in different configurations.
Its presence at ADEX also fits into an existing space relationship between IAI and Azerbaijan.
In October 2023, IAI and the Azerbaijan Space Agency, Azercosmos, announced an agreement for the Azersky-2 programme. The agreement covers two multispectral electro-optical observation satellites with native imaging resolution better than 0.5 metres.
The programme was not limited to delivery of spacecraft. IAI said the agreement included technology and knowledge for satellite construction and operation, as well as cooperation intended to develop space technology and skills in Azerbaijan.
Building Local Capability
That industrial relationship has since widened.
In January 2025, IAI and Azerbaijan's Innovation and Digital Development Agency signed a memorandum covering cooperation in innovation, science, technology and education. The agreement included plans to explore a joint centre of excellence, educational programmes, professional training and possible joint ventures.
At ADEX 2026, IAI is highlighting the Vistar Center of Excellence, established with the Innovation and Digital Development Agency and Azercosmos. The centre covers education, innovation, entrepreneurship, startup development and space research.
IAI says its approach in Azerbaijan is intended to go beyond supplying finished systems, with knowledge transfer, local manufacturing and joint ventures forming part of its longer-term cooperation model.
That gives the company's ADEX presence two distinct strands: a display stretching from early warning and electronic warfare to air defence, precision strike and space, and an effort to build local technical capability around the systems and technologies it brings to the region.
