The Official Shopping List from Israel!

I did a half-hour special report on Headlines Today on August 16 based on a Defence Ministry document that I happened to get my hands on. It's a briefing note prepared by the MoD for the Ministry of External Affairs listing all the major military cooperation programmes and contracts currently on with Israel, and -- probably more importantly -- the ones currently on the table. It's a fascinating little document. Not least because the Defence Ministry and the Israeli embassy have a pronounced "no-comment" policy on all defence cooperation, despite common knowledge that it has expanded to astounding proportions in just the handful of years that the two countries have done open military business post-Kargil.

We've all known about the Phalcons and the Tavors and the Greenpines for years. But here's those and a lot more, in writing. Submerged launch vehicles. Gabriel anti-ship missiles. The F-INSAS advisory package. Desert Eagle handguns. The works. Here's formal confirmation (not "sources said") too that Israel is working in an official advisory role on the indigenous AEW&C and F-INSAS programmes. The most important part however -- this is a list of only the large and major contracts and programmes. The source who shared this with me says it highlights only a fraction of what is an intricate and enormous cooperation of either deals in negotiation, or very near conclusion -- and they span every conceivable area of military hardware and co-development, from anti-terror tracked robots to tritium sights.

Anyway, here's the list in full:

CONCLUDED/ON-GOING CONTRACTS

PHALCON AWACS (IAF)
BARAK MISSILE SYSTEM (NAVY)
SPYDER LLQRM SYSTEM (IAF)
GREENPINE LLT AND BM TRACKING RADAR (ARMY/IAF)
CRYSTAL MAZE STAND-OFF PGM (IAF)
HERON UAV (IAF/NAVY)
PYTHON AAM (NAVY)
ELTA EL/M-2032 FC RADAR FOR SEA HARRIER (NAVY)
EL/M-2083 AEROSTAT RADAR
SEARCHER-II UAV (IAF/ARMY/NAVY)
TAR-21 5.56MM ASSAULT RIFLE (ARMY/SF)
GALIL ASSAULT/SNIPER RIFLE (ARMY/SF)
INDIGENOUS AEW&C ADVISORY AND SUBSYSTEMS (DRDO)
F-INSAS INFANTRY MODERNISATION ADVISORY (DRDO/ARMY)
LAHAT TUBE MUNITION SYSTEM (ARMY)
GLASS COCKPIT KIT FOR HAL DHRUV (IAF)
SUPER DVORA MK-II PATROL BOAT (COAST GUARD)
UPGRADE PKG MIG-21 (IAF)
155MM AMMUNITION
155MM CARGO AMMUNITION
INFANTRY SUPPORT SYSTEMS (NV DEVICES, TRITIUM SIGHT)

PROPOSED SYSTEMS UNDER JWG/UNDER EVALUATION

MEDIUM-RANGE SURFACE TO AIR MISSILE (DRDO/ARMY/NAVY/IAF)
155MM 52-CALIBRE AUTONOMOUS & TOWED ARTY (ARMY)
SKYLITE-B MICRO-UAV / I-VIEW UAV (ARMY/SF)
LITENING POD FOR MIRAGE-2000/JAGUAR (IAF)
SPIKE MPATGM (ARMY)
DELILAH-II AR-MISSILE W/ LOITER CAPABILITY (IAF)
PYTHON AAM / DERBY AAM (IAF)
SPYDER LLQRM (ARMY)
GABRIEL MK-III ASHM (IAF/NAVY)
DESERT EAGLE/JERICHO HANDGUN (ARMY/SF)
NEGEV MACHINEGUN (ARMY)
MICRO-UZI/UZI M-PISTOL (SF)
UPGRADE PKGS MIRAGE 2000H, MIG-29, TU-142, MI-17 HELO
ANTI-BALLISTIC MISSILE SYSTEM
SUBMERGED LAUNCH VEHICLE
PGMS / BOMB GUIDANCE KITS
UAV/AUV TECHNICAL ADVISORY
AVIONICS PKGS

So there it is -- still only a partial list, but official. There's a new Israeli ambassador coming shortly, and he's going to have this massive legacy of cooperation to continue.

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