Israel to Acquire 18 CH-53K King Stallion
State Department approved the sale of 18 Sikorsky CH-53K King Stallion heavy-lift helicopters to Israel to replace its CH-53 Yasurs for $3.4 billion.
Israel News
Air
Bilateral Relations
Air
Unmanned Systems
Israel Uses AI-Controlled Drone Swarms in Combat
The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) has formally acknowledged its use of swarms of AI-assisted drones during air and missile strikes against Gaza.
Weapon / Missile
Bilateral Relations
Israeli Company Rafael Targets Russian Vessel 962 on Animation
Rafael has unveiled the Maritime and Land-Based “Sea Breaker” cruise missile in an animated video where it destroys a Soviet-made missile corvette which is active use in Black Sea Fleet.
Navy / Maritime
Regional / Strategy
Greece Hold ORION-21 military exercise with four participants
Greece held a five-day multinational exercise “Orion-21” with Special Forces Units from Greece, the USA, Israel, Greek Cyprus and Serbia.
Air
Israel’s F-16s are now Commercial
U.S. private company that provides adversary (“red air”) and joint terminal attack controller (JTAC) training to the air forces will operate F-16.
Ammunition
The US to sell $735 million arms to Israel
The U.S. approved the potential sale of $735 million in precision-guided weapons to Israel according to Reuters.
Bilateral Relations
Greece and Israel agree on $1.65 billion Defence Cooperation
Israel and Greece have signed a contract for the establishment and operation for 22 years of an International Flight Centre for Greek Air Force pilots.
Investment
Elbit acquires Rokar at 31 million USD
Elbit Systems Acquires BAE Systems Rokar at $31 million.
Weapon / Missile
BARAK (ER) Reaches 150 km
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), announced from its social media account that it has successfully tested a new long-range air defence system.
Unmanned Systems
Elbit Systems to Supply Hermes 900 UAV to a Country in Asia
Elbit Systems announced that it was awarded an approximately $300 million contract by an Asian country to provide HermesTM 900 UAS.
Air
Weapon / Missile
Unmanned Systems
Sensors
Unmanned AN-2s: Azerbaijan’s Unknown Heroes
Middle East Eye (MEE) unrevealed information about the Azerbaijan-Armenia conflict. According to Ragıp Soylu’s report, the Azerbaijani military used Soviet-era Antonov An-2 single-engine aircraft as a decoy to destroy Russian S-300s with Israeli “Harop” suicide drones.
Land
Air
Ammunition
IDEX under the Shadow of Covid
International Defence Exhibition and Conference (IDEX) in Abu Dhabi is hosting guests since February 21st. Boots are established but some participants did not attend due to the pandemic.
Air
Space
Weapon / Missile
Bilateral Relations
Regional / Strategy
Israel to Develop Arrow-4 with the U.S
The Israel Missile Defence Organization (IMDO) and the U.S. Missile Defence Agency (MDA) have started developing the Arrow-4 weapon system. Arrow-4 is a next-generation endo-exoatmospheric interceptor missile. Currently, Arrow weapon system comprises Arrow-2 and Arrow-3 interceptors and Arrow-4 will replace the Arrow-2 within the next several years.
Air
Bilateral Relations
Unmanned Systems
Indian Army has leased four Heron UAVs
The Times Now News has reported that the Indian Army has leased four Heron unmanned air vehicles from Israel as part of an emergency procurement program.
