Alwaght - Israeli regime
and India are agreeing on a multi-million-dollar deal to jointly develop a medium-range
surface-to-air missile system.
The English-language
newspaper - The Times of
India - reported on
Thursday that some Indian Defense Ministry sources, requesting not to be named,
said that the country’s Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) is
partnering with Israeli [regime] Aerospace Industries (IAI) to develop the missile
system for the Indian army.
The
newspaper report added that Hyderabad-based Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL),
which is one of India’s manufacturers of munitions and missile systems, will
take charge of the mass production of the systems.
The
missile system is said to have a range of 50 kilometers (31 miles), and has
multi-function surveillance and threat-tracking radar components as well
as weapon control systems. It is an advanced version of the Israeli regime Barak
missile system, and would reportedly cost 90 billion Indian rupees (over 157
million dollars).
“More
orders might later follow since the [Indian] army’s air defense capabilities
are relatively weak,” an unnamed Indian defense source said.
Israeli regime is the third
largest arms supplier to India after the US and Russia. Tel Aviv and New Delhi
have struck military deals and projects worth around 10 billion dollars over
the last 15 years, which range from spy and combat drones to sophisticated
missile and radar systems.
During
his visit to India in February, Israeli regime Minister of Military Affairs
Moshe Ya’alon offered the Iron Dome, which is a short-range missile system
designed to intercept rockets and artillery shells fired from a range of four
to 70 kilometers, to Indian authorities, although the Iron Dome did not prove
any efficiency during the Israeli regime war on Lebanon and Gaza.
