State-owned defence contractor Israel Aerospace Industries said on Wednesday it signed a $50 million follow-up contract to provide complementary missile systems to the Indian navy and India's MDL Shipyard.
The agreement involves a range of maintenance and other services for sub-systems of Israel Aerospace's naval medium range surface-to-air missile.
“This contract is a breakthrough as it advances us from system development and delivery to looking after the operational needs of our customers,” said Boaz Levi, general manager of the Systems, Missiles & Space Group at Israel Aerospace.
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M. Saeed
Jul 17, 2019 12:37pm
A country of over 1,300 million people getting help from a country of just 8 million people!
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Rashid
Jul 17, 2019 12:58pm
USA, France, UK, Russia, Israel, Sweden just keep on milking India, a country of very people poor people.
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harish nagar
Jul 17, 2019 01:00pm
india- Israel are made to love each other. We are brothers
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Sheikh Waqar ul Hassan
Jul 17, 2019 01:03pm
Its business deal. Pakistan can also do such deals if needed.
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But Why
Jul 17, 2019 01:21pm
India tends to move so aggressive on defense may not be that essential.
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King
Jul 17, 2019 01:49pm
@Rashid, your right India is not rich & develop like Pakistan
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Kaju
Jul 17, 2019 01:49pm
@Sheikh Waqar ul Hassan, not if needed. If you have money!!
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harry
Jul 17, 2019 01:55pm
@M. Saeed, India and Israel are natural allies. Israelis are far far ahead than India in education and innovation. Indian culture advises to follow the learned people and India is doing just that.
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King
Jul 17, 2019 01:58pm
@Rashid, whole world knows who is poor people
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Jacky
Jul 17, 2019 02:06pm
@M. Saeed, for for u people Israel does not exists.
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G
Jul 17, 2019 02:17pm
@Sheikh Waqar ul Hassan, if the funds are available, may want to repay some debts first? Or buy US dollars?
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ajab singh
Jul 17, 2019 02:20pm
@Sheikh Waqar ul Hassan, So which was your latest deal ??
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Inam ali essex
Jul 17, 2019 02:22pm
@harish nagar, both partners in crime against humanity
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Satish
Jul 17, 2019 02:27pm
@Sheikh Waqar ul Hassan, You need money for that..
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Naxalite
Jul 17, 2019 02:30pm
@harish nagar, Whats common in two of you? Its occupying Kashmir/Palestine illegally
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Ramanathan
Jul 17, 2019 02:44pm
@M. Saeed, that's because India is not as advanced as Pakistan.
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Amir Indian
Jul 17, 2019 03:03pm
@Rashid, keep living in dream world
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Kaju
Jul 17, 2019 03:22pm
@ajab singh, IMF deal
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M. Emad
Jul 17, 2019 03:47pm
Good Deal.
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Jay
Jul 17, 2019 04:36pm
Does it mean that the Indian navy and defense establishment do not have QUALIFIED personnel to maintain these high tech arms that they buy? How would they be able to use these weapons? Very interesting situation!!!
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RAja Raman
Jul 17, 2019 04:47pm
To ISPR / FO Spokesman, please don't issue statements like strategic balance in the region is lost, our forces are fully prepared, etc... etc. Not even major Indian media reported this.
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Singh Sahab
Jul 17, 2019 05:02pm
@Sheikh Waqar ul Hassan, It requires money.
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UncleFunky
Jul 17, 2019 05:11pm
@M. Saeed, A few hundred people changed the life of billions people in the world!!
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Mark
Jul 17, 2019 05:14pm
@M. Saeed, Oh yes India does take help from it's good friends which it has many like US, Israel n Russia. It also has some terror sponsors next door which it has to care about. It also spends just 1.5 percent of it's GDP on defence, one of the lowest in South Asia.
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Harshad
Jul 17, 2019 08:19pm
@Sheikh Waqar ul Hassan, it won’t afford to Pakistan
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Aman
Jul 17, 2019 09:36pm
@Rashid, still higher per capita income than pakistan
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A. Khan
Jul 17, 2019 10:16pm
@harry, Both are racist states so yes, they are like brothers. Imagine a country of 1.3 billion buying $50m military hardware from a country of 7-8 million. Just shows how backward and hollow all the claimed development in India is.
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Gordon D. Walker
Jul 17, 2019 10:50pm
Great! The more efficient weapons of mass destruction the better! The sooner we can get
this show on the road... Go Israel, go.
Gordon D. Walker
Canada
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Awaz....
Jul 18, 2019 12:50am
@M. Saeed, ....Valid Point!!!
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Awaz....
Jul 18, 2019 01:05am
@A. Khan, ...It's not the size that matters but the ability to deliver. Why Israel has the most technologically advanced military on Earth?...Search on google and you will know the answer.
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Awaz....
Jul 18, 2019 01:13am
It is a proven fact that Israel has the most technologically advanced military on Earth?
In 1950, just two years after the state of Israel was founded, the country’s first commercial delegation set off for South America.
Israel desperately needed trading partners. Unlike its Arab adversaries, Israel did not have natural resources to fund its economy. There was no oil or minerals. Nothing.
The delegation held a couple of meetings but was mostly met with laughs. The Israelis were trying to sell oranges, kerosene stove tops and fake teeth. For countries like Argentina, which grew its own oranges and was connected to the electrical grid, the products were pretty useless.
It’s hard to imagine this is what Israeli exports looked like a mere 67 years ago. Today, Israel is a high-tech superpower and one of the world’s top weapons exporters with approximately $8.5 billion in annual arms sales. That's why India and other countries love to buy made in Israel products.
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Ali Sabir
Jul 18, 2019 01:17am
@UncleFunky, ....... Man's lives are the same, but today we live them in greater comfort than in centuries past.
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Ali Sabir
Jul 18, 2019 01:19am
@Aman, .... Only 25% of Indians are poor today.
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Awaz....
Jul 18, 2019 01:19am
Since 1985, Israel is the world’s largest exporter of drones, responsible for about 60 percent of the global market, trailed by the US, whose market share is under 25 percent. Its customers are everywhere - Russia, South Korea, Australia, France, Germany and Brazil.
In 2010, five NATO countries were flying Israeli drones in Afghanistan. How did this happen? How did Israel, a country not yet even 70 years old, become a superpower with one of the most technologically advanced militaries in the world that is changing the way modern wars are fought?
The answer, I believe, is a combination of a number of national characteristics unique to Israel. First, despite Israel’s small size, about 4.5 percent of its GDP is spent on research and development, almost twice the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development average. Of that amount, about 30 percent goes to products of a military nature. By comparison, only 2 percent of German R&D and 17 percent of US R&D is for the military.
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Awaz....
Jul 18, 2019 01:21am
Another major contribution is the culture of innovation and creativity in Israel. Israelis are more willing to take risks than other nations. They get this from their compulsory military service during which they are tasked, at a young age, to carry out missions often with deadly consequences.
While Israeli 19-year-olds embark on operations behind enemy lines, their Western counterparts can be found in the safety of their college dormitories.
Lastly, Israel has been in a perpetual state of conflict since its inception, fighting a war almost every decade. This reality, of having your back against the wall, sharpens the mind. It forces Israelis to be creative and come up with innovative ways and weapons to survive.
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santosh kumar vishwakarma
Jul 18, 2019 10:32am
@Kaju, preparing for other IMF application.. Draft is already under preparation.
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