On Tuesday, December 16, 2025, the Israeli company Elbit Systems announced that it had received notification from Greece’s Government Council for Foreign Affairs and Defense (KYZEA) and the country’s parliament approving the funding for the purchase in Israel of PULS (Precise & Universal Launching System) multiple rocket launchers for the Hellenic Army (Ellinikós Stratós).
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As a result, Elbit Systems expects to receive a contract of a value that will be significant for the company. The planned award of the contract is contingent, among other things, on the conclusion of commercial negotiations with the General Directorate for Defense Investments and Armaments (GDDIA) of the Greek Ministry of National Defense.
It is worth recalling that as early as December 5, 2024, the Greek defense portal OnAlert reported on the approval by KYZEA and the parliament of a request from the Hellenic Armed Forces General Staff regarding the acquisition of the PULS system. Unofficially, the request was said to concern 38 launchers with a maximum value of approximately 500 million EUR, with the package also to include guided munitions, command and support vehicles, spare parts, in-service support, and personnel training.
The launchers are expected to be integrated on truck chassis supplied by Iveco Defence Vehicles. The purchase is to be carried out under the Agenda 2030 technical modernization program.
More interestingly, the PULS systems are expected to be assigned to artillery subunits in the Evros regional unit in the Eastern Macedonia and Thrace region, which directly borders the European part of Turkey, as well as to all major islands in the eastern part of the Aegean Sea.
The acquisition of Israeli launchers is to result from abandoning the previously planned comprehensive modernization of the U.S.-made M270A0 MLRS (Multiple Launch Rocket System) heavy launchers. Initially, work was planned on 24 of them at a cost of 1.81 billion EUR (considered excessively high), then on only 12 units (for 500 million EUR), which was to begin after 2021. However, there has been no information on the matter since then, and the program is widely considered to have been abandoned in favor of acquiring a new field rocket artillery system.
The PULS system, which is a development of the Lynx system designed by Israel Military Industries (IMI), can fire 122 mm Accular rockets (18 at a time) with a range of up to 35 km, 160 mm Accular rockets (10 at a time) with a range of up to 40 km, 306 mm EXTRA rockets (four at a time) with a range of 150 km, or 370 mm Predator Hawk rockets (two at a time) with a range of 300 km (370 km in the Israeli version). According to reports, it was precisely this range that convinced Greek decision-makers.
So far, Elbit Systems has received orders for the delivery of the PULS system from the ministries of defense of Denmark (on March 2, 2023, eight launchers were ordered, with the first two delivered on August 3, 2023), the Kingdom of the Netherlands (20 launchers ordered on May 18, 2023), an undisclosed first customer on July 18, 2023, Spain (16 launchers ordered in October 2023, although in September 2025 the government terminated the contract as part of a broader embargo on Israeli arms), a second undisclosed customer on August 6, 2024, a third undisclosed customer on November 18, 2024, Germany on February 6, 2025 (five launchers), Peru on July 8, 2025 (undisclosed number), and a fourth undisclosed customer on August 13, 2025 (according to Israeli media, Serbia). The system is also being offered to Norway, which is simultaneously interested in the competing M142 HIMARS and K239 Chunmoo systems.
