No. of Recommendations: 2
Saw this on the wire:
Israel investing over $100 billion in homegrown arms production, Netanyahu reveals
Israel is working to gain as much independence as possible in its weapons production, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Wednesday, in a development he said was the result of the lessons learned during the past two years of war on multiple fronts.
“I approved, along with the defense minister and finance minister, a sum of NIS 350 billion [$108 billion] over the next decade to build an independent Israeli munitions industry,” Netanyahu said in an address at a graduation ceremony for Israeli Air Force pilots.https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-investing-mor...Remember section 224?
Section 224 lays the groundwork for bilateral research and development, co-production of weapons, joint ventures, licensing agreements, and seemingly every manner of U.S.-Israeli military-industrial complex cooperation. The U.S. and Israel already work together heavily on missile defense, but this provision would greatly expand coordination to seemingly every area of defense tech, including AI, quantum, autonomous systems, directed energy, cyber, biotech, and many more. It also proposes “network integration” and “data fusion.” In other words, the U.S. military’s data could soon be the Israeli military’s data. https://responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-us-milita...The Israelis used to steal military technology, for the benefit of it's domestic arms industry. The best known case is when they stole the design of a French jet fighter, which was then produced in Israel, both for the IAF, and for export sale.
By 1968, Dassault had finished production of the 50 Mirage 5Js paid for by Israel, but an arms embargo imposed upon Israel by the French government in 1967 prevented deliveries from taking place. The Israelis replied by producing an unlicensed copy of the Mirage 5, the Nesher, with technical specifications for both the airframe and the engine obtained by Israeli spieshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAI_KfirWith free access to US R&D, the Israelis can steal all the technology they want, build the weapons with the industry that "Bibi" is building up, sell it to anyone they wish, and make lots and lots of money, for themselves.
Steve
