Elbit’s 120 mm mortar uses GPS and lasers to make the infantry’s favorite heavy weapon precision-guided – and the US is looking to upgrade its own 120s on Strykers and AMPVs.
By Arie EgoziAfter years of favoring missiles, Israel is back in the laser business, with Rafael developing a ground-based 100-kW-class weapon and Elbit an airborne one.
By Arie EgoziTEL AVIV: Israel’s Ministry of Defense and Israeli defense industries are working to develop and deploy defense technologies adapted for use in the fight against COVID-19. Israel’s Mossad managed to put its hands on critical supplies from other countries needed for Israeli hospitals. No further details are available on these Mossad missions but sources here…
By Arie EgoziThe armored ground vehicles of the future will allow soldiers to do things their predecessors only dreamed about.
By Paul McLearyThe first demonstration of Carmel was held Aug. 4 before the Ministry of Defense Director General, the IDF Deputy Chief of General Staff, commander of the Ground Forces, the head of the Directorate of Defense Research and Development, and other senior defense officials.
By Arie EgoziDidier Plantecoste, head of the MRTT program at Airbus, says the allied tanker program is wooing new European customers in “the South.”
By Theresa Hitchens“Before I took office,” IAI chairman Harel Locker said at a recent conference, “(I) realized that if the company did not change, it could collapse within a few years.”
By Arie EgoziWASHINGTON: Seeking to stop Russian-made anti-tank missiles, the US Army will buy Israel’s Iron Fist Active Protection System for a brigade of its M2 Bradley armored vehicles, Breaking Defense has learned. The decision comes after weeks of confusing statements by Army officials and months of delays fitting the high-tech active protection on a Cold War-vintage…
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.After years of subsidizing the Israeli defense industry, the US is now insisting Tel Aviv spend all the military aid it gets from America on American companies. The Israeli government and hundreds of Israeli companies are scrambling to adjust, with one estimate predicting 20,000 layoffs.
By Arie EgoziFor 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. Today, Israel is reaching out to NATO and Turkish-Israeli relations are increasingly tense.
By Arie Egozi