On April 6, Greece finalized a contract with Israel’s Elbit for the supply of Precise & Universal Launching System (PULS) rocket launchers, related ammunition and support. The contract follows an earlier agreement reached by the Israeli Ministry of Defense and the Hellenic Ministry of National Defense on December 16, 2025.
The contract is worth “approximately” $750 million (€650 million) and will see deliveries over 4 years, followed by a 10-year period of follow-on support. PULS will be supplied along with a “comprehensive munition package which includes training rockets, operational precision guided rockets for various ranges and loitering munitions”.
PULS’s main munition types are rockets, guided or unguided, in 122, 160 and 306 mm caliber, as well as 370 mm ballistic missiles. The ACCULAR family of 122 mm rockets comes in pods of 18 and offers a range of 35 km with a 20 kg warhead. In the 160 mm format, the pod holds 10 rockets with values growing to 40 km and 35 kg. The EXTRA rockets, with a diameter of 306 mm, come in pods of 4. Range varies between 30 and 150 kg with two unitary warhead options, one optimized for fragmentation for area attacks and the other for penetration against hardened structures.
The PREDATOR HAWK ballistic missile flies between 50 and 300 km with a 140 kg warhead. PULS represents a valid alternative to the american GMLS and ATACMS from HIMARS/M270 and Israel has shown a greater willingness to integrate third party weapons on PULS, most notably with a Naval Strike Missile fire test recently. PULS has gained several orders from NATO, European countries: Denmark bought 8 and the Netherlands 20, with Germany also buying an “exploratory” lot of 5 launchers that could be followed by many more.
Spain had also selected PULS for its SILAM (Sistema de Lanzacohetes de Alta Movilidad) requirement, which was to lead to the acquisition of 12 to 16 launchers, 288 ACCULAR rockets, 112 EXTRA and 60 PREDATOR HAWK missiles. Launchers were to be made in Spain by Escribano with Expal producing rocket guidance sections, but the program eventually crashed due to Spain’s growing hostility against Israel’s conduit in the war in Gaza and Lebanon.
Elbit has committed to “collaborate with local Greek industries for the production of the system, including technology transfer and sharing of know how”. It’s not yet clear which loitering munitions will be provided as part of the project.
In March 2026, Elbit and KNDS also announced an initiative to market PULS in Europe via a joint venture called EuroPULS.
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