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Israel wins Indian missile defense order
    2018-10-25  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

ISRAEL Aerospace Industries (IAI) said yesterday it had won a US$777 million order from India to buy defense systems for its navy.

The deal with India’s state-owned Bharat Electronics Limited to supply the marine version of the Barak 8 air and missile defense system for seven more warships follows a US$630 million order placed last year.

State-owned IAI, Israel’s largest defense firm, said worldwide sales of the Barak 8 system now totalled more than US$6 billion.

Israel is among the world’s top arms dealers, with nearly 60 percent of its defense exports going to the Asia-Pacific region, according to Israeli defense ministry figures.

Russia is still by far India’s largest arms supplier. During a visit last week, President Vladimir Putin won an order for the S-400 surface-to-air missile defense system, worth US$5.2 billion according to an Indian source.

But as the United States has imposed sanctions on countries buying Russian military hardware, India has sought to diversify its suppliers.

Washington and New Delhi announced plans last month for joint military exercises in 2019 and the United States is now India’s second-biggest supplier.

In April last year, Israel won 1.6 billion euros (US$1.8 billion) of orders from India, which it hailed as its largest ever arms export deal.

“It constitutes further proof that security is an investment not an expense,” Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said of yesterday’s deal. “Israel Aerospace Industries is a pillar of the nation that we must conserve and strengthen,” he added, recalling his opposition to proposals for partial privatization of the firm. (SD-Agencies)

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