updated Fri. March 22, 2024
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The Diplomat
April 17, 2018
Thailand's Military Forges Ahead with Israel Artillery System ... Last month, Thailand moved forward on the acquisition of an Israeli artillery system. ... transfer and indigenous production, some parts of the system will be assembled in Thailand by the Weapon Production Center's Defense Industry and EnergyÃâà...
Haaretz
March 29, 2018
Netanyahu said the deal shows the strength of the Israeli defense industry and strengthens the existing ties between Israel and Croatia. "The Israeli defense industry proves, once again, that it is the best in the world," he said. "This agreement will strengthen the existing ties between Israel and Croatia in theÃâà...
Breaking Defense
March 26, 2018
The Trump Administration is putting the final touches on a plan to speed up arms sales to allies, and play catchup to China and Israel in selling armed ... of the defense industry to “solicit their thoughts on how to minimize the self-inflicted bureaucratic and administrative hurdles to U.S. competitiveness,” theÃâà...
Breaking Defense
March 26, 2018
For a while, Turkey and Israel were the unexpected couple, the increasingly Muslim state buying the Jewish state's weapons and Israel offering Turkey a potentially strategic gas and oil pipeline. That all changed when Israeli commandos raided the so-called Gaza Freedom Flotilla in May 2010 inÃâà...
גלובס
March 20, 2018
"We and the Ministry of Defense see eye-to-eye in this, and there is no doubt that action is needed to limit the damage," a senior defense industry source told "Globes." "The Ministry of the Economy and Industry and the Ministry of Finance should realize the emerging threat to the Israeli industries. We got theÃâà...
Breaking Israel News
March 18, 2018
Credo quia absurdum. “I believe because it is absurd.” In the very best case scenario, President Donald Trump is “merely” incompetent, fundamentally incapable of meeting minimal intellectual and emotional expectations of the American presidency. In the worst case, he is acting consciously on behalf ofÃâà...
World Israel News
March 8, 2018
According to its mission statement, it seeks “to establish defense collaboration and defense industry cooperation among Islamic countries, to help the ... The number of soldiers in active service in the [Israeli] occupation forces is 160,000, and [Israel's] defense budget is approximately $15,600,000,000.
Middle East Media Research Institute
March 7, 2018
[2] The article called on the 57 member states of the OIC to form a joint "Army of Islam" to besiege and attack the state of Israel. It notes that such a joint army will greatly exceed the Israeli army in manpower, equipment and budget, and presents statistics to prove this. It also advocates establishing joint basesÃâà...
Breaking Defense
March 5, 2018
“APS, Active Protection System, is not an accurate term,” the Rafael exec and veteran Israeli tanker told me. “If you are only protecting yourself, the enemy will continue shooting at you.” That doesn't mean they'll hit you — US testers fired at a Trophy-equipped tank 48 times without a kill — but why give themÃâà...
Breaking Defense
March 4, 2018
Israel has long been threatened by Hezbollah's short-ranged missiles, but now Iran is stepping up the threat, both from its own long-range ballistic missiles and from its proxies in Syria. In response, Israel is pressing to build a multi-layered missile defense with its Arrow 2 and Arrow 3, Iron Dome and David'sÃâà...
Haaretz
February 28, 2018
U.S. senators who just returned from a trip to Israel called on Tuesday for an increase in the $38 billion in military aid the United States is currently providing Israel, signaling support for more funds for Israeli missile systems. Senators Lindsey Graham, a leading Republican foreign policy voice, and ChrisÃâà...
Brookings Institution (blog)
February 13, 2018
Israel's air attack on a manned Iranian command and control unit in Syria last weekend—and the Syrian shoot-down of an Israeli plane involved in the ... the convoys delivering military supplies to Hezbollah are vulnerable to constant Israeli attacks, they should establish military industry facilities in Syria andÃâà...
Xinhua
February 9, 2018
A nuclear threat from Iran has been halted by an international treaty since 2015, and Syria is distracted by a seven-year bloody civil war. And still, Israel's defense industry is thriving, booming with hi-tech weapons and capabilities. Many innovations from Israeli defense firms are hits. That is because Israel isÃâà...
The National Interest Online (blog)
December 31, 1999
The missile threat posed by Israel's neighbors, particularly Hezbollah, could temporarily shut down Israeli air bases across the country in wartime. The ability to disperse ... According to Defense Industry Daily, the Israelis were quoted a sticker-shock-inducing $200 million per jet. While this number cameÃâà...
The Nation.
December 31, 1999
The United States gives Israel over $3 billion in annual military aid and, under the terms of US-Israeli agreements, 75 percent of that aid must be spent ... There is too much pressure from the defense industry and other interest groups, and too little political will, to enforce these laws—on Israel or on any otherÃâà...
Defense Industry Daily
December 31, 1999
However, the freeze was short-lived with Israeli officials restarting talks over their purchase late last year. According to NAVAIR officials, any sale of V-22s would be part of a package with heavy-lift helicopters—Israel is considering both the Sikorsky CH-53K King Stallion and the Boeing CH-47FÃâà...
Haaretz
December 31, 1999
Another question is whether the deal really turned Elbit into the Defense Ministry's biggest contractor. Another important factor that has been missing from the debate is that the global defense industry gives considerable advantage in terms of costs, marketing and R&D to the biggest players. In the last year,Ãâà...
LobeLog
December 31, 1999
Indeed, the Israeli defense industry has reached nearly every corner of the globe where genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and severe violations of human rights have occurred, supplying Uzis to members of the Tonton Macoute militia, which raped and murdered the masses of Haiti during theÃâà...
Breaking Defense
December 31, 1999
U.S. allies, like Saudi Arabia (GDP: $678 billion; defense spending: $66.7 billion) and Israel (GDP: $348 billion; defense spending: $19.6 billion) can more than hold their own. And remember, standing behind them is the real behemoth, the U.S., which plans to spend $716 billion on defense in 2019—that'sÃâà...
Breaking Defense
December 31, 1999
A visit to Israel's increasingly tense border with Syria makes clear that the ground units of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) are building their own "air force." The clear benefits of tactical drones have driven the ground forces to deploy more and more aircraft and this has reached the status of a real revolution.
