Armaments Radar: Cognata briefs Greek staff on autonomous vehicle conversion, Engine Test Hellas on engine diagnostics

Greece’s Ministry of National Defence announced two new company presentations to armed forces staff officers on November 12 and 13, 2026. The first concerns Israel’s COGNATA and the conversion of vehicles into autonomous and remote-controlled ones, and the second Engine Test Hellas, which presented to the Hellenic Air Force General Staff (HAFGS) a vehicle engine diagnostic system. These are briefings to staff officers. No announcement mentions a procurement decision.

Cognata: autonomous and remote-controlled vehicles

On November 9, 2026, representatives of RAM EUROPE, which represents Israel’s COGNATA in Greece, made a presentation to staff officers of the Hellenic National Defence General Staff (HNDGS) and the Hellenic Army General Staff (HAGS). According to the Ministry’s announcement, the presentation concerned COGNATA’s products in the field of converting vehicles into autonomous and remote-controlled ones. Present were Theodoros Rentzos, chairman and CEO of RAM EUROPE, Agamemnon Koliatsos, an associate of RAM EUROPE, Andriani Samoili, an employee of RAM EUROPE, as well as Dan Atsmon, founder and CEO of COGNATA, and Alon Atsmon, chairman of COGNATA.

COGNATA is known mainly for the simulation software with which autonomous-driving systems are tested and trained. The Ministry’s announcement does not name a specific product. In off-road vehicle autonomy, the company promotes on its website the AVBox, a kit that, as it describes it, is fitted to existing unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) and robotic platforms and gives them mission autonomy in GPS-denied environments, with the ability to connect to a remote-control system.

According to COGNATA, the AVBox combines environment perception, mission planning and vehicle control in a single unit. It can perform patrols, waypoint routes, area coverage and movements in a convoy or in a “leader-follower” pattern, with a human supervising. It comes in three levels: Scout with visual and inertial sensors, Ranger with a combination of visual and thermal sensors for continuous operation, and Commander with visual and thermal sensors and LiDAR, for fully autonomous missions.

Engine Test Hellas: diagnostics at the Air Force General Staff

On Wednesday, November 11, 2026, a meeting took place at the Hellenic Air Force General Staff between representatives of Engine Test Hellas, Konstantinos Kiousis (exclusive representative for Greece) and Theodoros Leonidis (general manager), and competent HAFGS officers. The purpose of the meeting was to brief on the system the company is developing for diagnosing the condition of vehicles’ internal combustion engines, as well as other components such as the brakes, the differential and the steering system.

For earlier presentations, see our Armaments Radar on Anduril, IFSAS, Michelin and OCEM.