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If the US signs a new Iran deal, Israel wants defense technologies it has never before received as compensation.
By Arie EgoziROC-X – The solution to organic precision strike capabilities
At AUSA Global Force 2024, IAI will present integrated, AI-driven combat systems – both manned and unmanned – that are opening new opportunities on the battlefield.
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett appeared to hint Thursday — the day after the attack — that Israel may have been involved when he spoke to a graduating ceremony for Israeli Air Force pilots: “Our enemies know — not from statements, but from actions — that we are much more determined and much more clever, and that we do not hesitate to act when it is needed.”
By Arie Egozi
The DC trip is Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi’s first, and is aimed mainly to present the Americans with intelligence Israeli sources say proves that Iran is cheating on the nuclear agreement.
By Arie Egozi
TEL AVIV: White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan and Israeli national security adviser Meir Ben-Shabbat have agreed to establish an interagency working group to focus on the threat from Iran’s precision-guided missiles being shared with Hezbollah and other allies. Israeli defense sources told BD that while the Trump Administration focused on how to stop…
By Arie Egozi
TEL AVIV: Amid confused reports of a drone attack on an Iranian ship in the Mediterranean on its way to Syria, Iran appears to have moved its weapons shipments to Syria and Lebanon from the land — where Israel has regularly tracked and destroyed them — to ships that may be receiving protection from Russian…
By Arie Egozi
How to deal with the Chinese threat will probably be one of the most difficult questions for the European Union to address as it executes its first-ever strategic review, to be published in 2022 and called ‘’Strategic Compass.’
By Murielle Delaporte
Middle Eastern sources say Sunday’s cyberattack caused a blackout at the Natanz facility and damaged centrifuges. It occurred on the same day Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin landed in Israel for talks, a day after Iran announced new centrifuges at Natanz, and within a week of the US restarting talks to revive the JCPOA.
By Arie Egozi and Brad D. Williams
Gray Eagle is the low-cost, low-risk answer to Army modernization
Gray Eagle STOL and Gray Eagle 25M are the best options for Army aviation as it assesses where to move from its current inflection point.
A new strategy paper from Chief of Staff Gen. James McConville says forward-deployed Army forces will survive inside Chinese missile strikes and fatally disrupt the PLA’s plans.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
Ranking Member, SASC’s Subcommittee on Airland Senator Tom Cotton, R-Arkansas Responsibilities As former chair of SASC’s Airland Subcommittee, Cotton brings direct experience to his new role as Ranking Republican of the 12-member panel responsible for Army, Air Force, National Guard and Reserve planning and operations policy and programs, not including special operations, space and…
By Catherine Macaulay
Chairwoman, SASC’s Subcommittee on Airland Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Illinois Responsibilities Duckworth’s appointment as Chair of SASC’s Airland Subcommittee comes on the heels of a new ruling by the Democratic caucus to distribute authority evenly across the SASC while extending leadership opportunities to junior senators on Senate subpanels. A member of SASC since 2019, the…
By Catherine Macaulay
A senior Israeli source who talked with BD on condition of anonymity said the $1.2 billion will mostly be spent on “improving Israel’s capability to perform standoff attacks,” which involves acceleration of some very highly classified “black programs” that address this capability “with breakthrough technologies.” Some will be spent on Israel’s missile defense systems, as well.
By Arie Egozi
TEL AVIV: Israel has said openly that it will attack Iran if the U.S eases sanctions against the Shiite regime and agrees to go back to the nuclear agreement the Jewish state claims is “the biggest hoax in recent history.” “Israel needs to know — and fast — whether Washington plans to stop Iran’s race…
By Arie Egozi
The head of the Mossad is expected to serve as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s main liaison with the new administration, because of his personal acquaintance with Biden and many of the new president’s senior officials developed while he was head of Israel’s National Security Council.
By Arie Egozi
Some critics cite a growing nuclear stockpile as another indicator of a looming arms race. But the size and age of the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile is at the lowest level of warheads since the late 1950s, with the average warhead age being older than at any other time in history.
By Michael Lutton