The giant country that produces missiles and drones for Israel

India manufactures missiles and drones for Israel which are used by it in the framework of the “Iron Swords” war – this was announced on the Al Jazeera network.

Zain Hussein, a researcher at the Stockholm Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), told the Qatar News Agency that the cooperation between New Delhi and Jerusalem is mainly based on the production of missiles. According to the institute, the Indian company “Premier Explosives” (Premier Explosives) produces essential parts from rocket engines of Israeli means. Considering that India participates in the production of the Barak air defense system, it is not impossible that these are components required for the Arrow 2 and Arrow 3 air defense systems.

Beyond that, a document published by the Palestinian news agency “Quds” showed fragments of a missile in the Nusayra refugee camp, with the inscription on some of its components:Made in India”. The CEO of Premier Explosives, TV Chaudhary, said in an investor call at the end of the first quarter of this year, that the orders from Israel led to an exponential jump in sales. “We are happy to announce that we have reached the highest quarterly revenues ever,” he announced proudly, noting that the company also produces explosives.

The cooperation between India and Israel is not limited to missiles and their components alone, and IAI is not the only large defense company that operates in the most populous country in the world. Already in December 2018, Elbit launched a collaboration with the defense and space arm of Gautam Adani, the billionaire and owner of Haifa Port. As part of the joint work, Hermes 900 and 450 drones are manufactured, among other things. During the war, Hezbollah intercepted two drones of each model, while the price of the Hermes 900, according to foreign publications, may reach 6.85 million dollars per unit and price Hermes 450 for 2 million dollars.

“The production of Hermes drones is as important to India as it is to Israel,” researcher Hussain of the SIPRI Institute told Al Jazeera. “For Israel, this means that it has a factory outside the country. For India, it is about transferring technology, with which it will be able to produce drones based on the Israeli model.” Indeed, this year, India launched the Drishti 10 Starliner, the first medium-altitude and long-endurance UAV made in India, based on the Hermes model.

Large goods that are transported by ships

Recall that on May 16, Spain decided to refuse to allow a ship carrying explosives from India to Israel to dock in its ports. According to the minister, the ship “Marian Danica” (Marianne Danica) She applied to dock in Cartagena on May 21, before being refused. The general cargo ship Marian Danica, which sailed with the flag of Denmark, left the port of Chennai on April 8, when according to the Spanish newspaper “El Pais” – it was carrying 27 tons of explosives. If not for the influence of the Houthi rebels on the Red Sea, the ship would not have passed through Spain’s economic waters at all – but the sailing traffic was mostly diverted to the Cape of Good Hope and from there to Gibraltar.

A day before the refusal to dock Marian Danica, the container ship “Borkum”, flying the flag of Antigua and Barbuda, stopped a short distance before entering Cartagena. Pro-Palestinian activists demonstrated at the port, and leftists from the European Parliament sent a letter to the President of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, demanding that it be prevented from docking, due to the suspicion that it was carrying illegal immigrants to Israel. Even before a decision was made in Madrid, the ship decided to cancel the intermediate berth in Cartagena – and continued to the port of Kuper in Slovenia.

According to “Al-Jazeera”, this ship, which also left the port of Chennai, contained explosives that were sent to the port of Ashdod. The pro-Palestinian organizations claim that Barkom contained 20 tons of rocket engines, 12.5 tons of explosive rockets, 1,500 kg of explosives and 740 kg of materials designated for artillery. In a report by the Qatar News Agency, it is claimed that under a confidentiality clause, the workers are prohibited from naming IMS, which since 2018 has become a subsidiary of Elbit. The ship’s operator, the German MLB, She denied it to “Al Jazeera” and said that “the ship did not load any amlach or other cargo for Israel.”

In complete opposition to the Spanish policy of preventing the docking of ships suspected of being in connection with the “Iron Swords” war, the neighbor on the southern bank of the Strait of Gibraltar, Morocco, recently approved the new IDF amphibious assault ship, Achi Kommiam, to make an intermediate berth there – as was first revealed in Globes . The same publication led to various protests across Morocco, including in Tangier, the city where Achi Kommiem stopped, while those who encouraged the outrage on social media were elements from Algeria.