Iran plans to expand, not suspend, its nuclear program, position paper obtained by Times of Israel says

 

Iran's Chief Nuclear Negotiator Saeed Jalili at daylong talks with six world powers in Istanbul, on April 14, 2012. (photo credit: AP/Burhan Ozbilici)

A position paper obtained by The Times of Israel, understood to have been used by Iran’s negotiators at last week’s technical-level talks with the P5+1 powers in Istanbul, makes plain the Tehran regime’s unyielding rejection of international efforts to negotiate safeguards and restrictions that would prevent Iran attaining a nuclear weapons capability.

Far from indicating Iranian readiness for a suspension or scaling back of its nuclear program, indeed, the document, made available by an informed source on condition of anonymity, includes references to Iran’s expansion plans. “Facing constant threats, we need a back up facility to safeguard our enrichment activities,” it states at one point, when discussing the Fordow enrichment facility, the underground complex built beneath a mountain near Qom where Iran carries out its 20% uranium enrichment.

A later point, related to the Tehran Research Reactor (TRR), refers to the need “for at least 4 other research reactors because of the territorial extent of Iran and the short lifetime of medical isotopes.” The next clause in the document declares an Iranian ambition “to sell fuel complexes to other countries.”

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IAI to launch new 5-ton Amos satellite

Israel's Spacecom Satellite Communications plans to replace the Amos-2 commercial communications satellite with the 5-ton Amos-6 craft to be built by Israel Aerospace Industries, the Jewish state's leading defense and aerospace company.
The $200 million Amos-6, Israel's 14th satellite since its first successful launch in September 1983, is scheduled for liftoff in the first quarter of 2015. It's designed to have an orbital life of 16 years.
It will replace the 1.4-ton Amos-2, also built by IAI, whose operational life is expected to end in 2016, in its geosynchronous orbit 22,500 miles above the Earth.

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Israel to Upgrade Air Force With F-35 Advanced Aircrafts

Not long ago, a thick cloud of rumors settled on the new, much-talked-about IDF [Israel Defense Forces] acquisition of 20 F-35's, a fighter plane known as the Stealth produced by the American Lockheed Martin Company. There were rumors regarding production slowdowns and delays of the F-35, known as the “fifth generation fighter plane” (in contrast to the Israeli fourth-generation F-16's). The fear is that they will reach Israel very late — too late to serve the IDF in coping with future challenges.

Lockheed Martin officials rarely circulate official statements regarding their planes. Nevertheless, Steve O'Bryan (vice president for F-35 business development) elucidated in an interview with Ma’ariv Magazine, “We will meet the deadline that we set.”
O'Bryan, an F-18 pilot by training, recently visited Israel. Among his duties in Lockheed Martin is responsibility for coordinating details of the business transaction with Israel. In a conversation with him, O'Bryan dissipates the rumors regarding postponement of the planes’ delivery date. “The various delays are not significant with regard to the overall schedule of the process,” he explains. “We will meet the deadline that was set. [However,] it is possible that some of the upgrades will be carried out at a later date in Israel.”

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Israelis, Not MEK, Killed Iranian Scientists, New Book Says

Israelis, not Iranians working for Israel, killed five Iranian scientists connected to Iran’s nuclear program between 2007 and 2011 according to a new book by veteran US and Israeli journalists.

Dan Raviv, a well-known reporter for CBS, and Yossi Melman, a former intelligence correspondent for Ha’aretz, write in “Spies Against Armageddon” that contrary to published reports — which link the killings to members of the Mujaheddin-e Khalq, an Iranian opposition group — Israel would not have contracted out such controversial and difficult work.
Instead, the authors say, the killings by motorcycle riders who affixed sticky bombs to their victims’ cars in Tehran traffic were “blue and white operations” — a reference to the colors of Israel’s flag.
“For such a sensitive dangerous and daring mission as a series of assassinations in Iran’s capital, the Mossad would not depend on hired-gun mercenaries,” Raviv and Melman assert. “They would be considered far less trustworthy and there was hardly any chance that the Mossad would reveal to non-Israelis some of its assassination unit’s best methods.”
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Israeli coalition wobbles over Orthodox conscription

The Kadima party head threatened to quit Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's ruling coalition on Wednesday over the issue of ultra-Orthodox Jewish military conscription.
Shaul Mofaz's threat came as the head of a panel charged with finding ways to conscript thousands of non-serving Orthodox Jews presented his recommendations, despite a decision by Netanyahu to dissolve the commission on July 2.
Committee head Yohanan Plesner, a member of Kadima, announced his recommendations at a press conference, urging the government to conscript all military age Israelis -- or make them carry out civilian service.
At a press conference afterwards, Mofaz who only joined the coalition two months ago publicly urged Netanyahu to implement the recommendations.
"The prime minister must approve the recommendations of the Plesner commission. That's our condition for staying in the governing coalition," he said.

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Israel to buy 30 Italian jets for air force

Italian Alenia Aermacchi M-346 training jet

Israel will purchase dozens of Italian-made jets to revamp the IAF training program, Walla News reported.

The ministerial procurement committee on Monday approved the deal, in which the Defense Ministry will purchase 30 Aermacchi M-346 Master planes for the air force pilot training school at a cost of more than NIS 4 billion.

In return, the Italian government will purchase some NIS 4 billion worth of equipment from Israel’s security industry.

The deal will lead to the replacement of the IAF’s aging Skyhawk trainers, which for 40 years have been the mainstay of the air force’s advanced jet training program.

Source :http://www.timesofisrael.com

Suspects in murder of nuclear physicists in Iran arrested

Ahmadi Roshan. AFP PHOTO / FARS NEWS

Iran’s special services have announced that they have arrested suspects in the murder of the nuclear physicists Ahmadi Roshan and Majid Shahriani.

According to the latest media reports, the police says that the suspects acted on order from the Israeli special services.

The Iranian physicist Roshan, who supervised the uranium enrichment programme in the nuclear centre in Natanza says that Ahmadi Roshan was killed in a car blast in Tehran this January.

He is the fourth Iranian nuclear physicist who has killed over the past 2 years.

Official Tehran says that the Israeli special services are responsible for their murder.

Source : Moscow Time

Suspects in murder of nuclear physicists in Iran arrested

Ahmadi Roshan. AFP PHOTO / FARS NEWS

Iran’s special services have announced that they have arrested suspects in the murder of the nuclear physicists Ahmadi Roshan and Majid Shahriani.

According to the latest media reports, the police says that the suspects acted on order from the Israeli special services.

The Iranian physicist Roshan, who supervised the uranium enrichment programme in the nuclear centre in Natanza says that Ahmadi Roshan was killed in a car blast in Tehran this January.

He is the fourth Iranian nuclear physicist who has killed over the past 2 years.

Official Tehran says that the Israeli special services are responsible for their murder.

Source : Moscow Time

Israel may use military force ‘to secure’ Syria’s alleged chemical arsenal

Israeli soldiers (Reuters/Ronen Zvulun)

The Israeli army is considering using military force to prevent Syria’s alleged chemical warfare stockpiles from getting into the hands of Hezbollah or Al-Qaeda. Tel-Aviv believes that Damascus is no longer capable of securing its arsenal.

­Syria has never declared it possesses chemical weapons stocks, but the Israeli military does not put its existence under question. Tel Aviv believes Syria has been busy producing mustard and nerve gas for the last 40 years.

On Monday Israeli Maj. Gen. Yair Naveh, the country’s deputy military chief, warned that Syria could pose a threat to Israel with its chemical weapons. He declared Syria has “the largest chemical warfare stockpiles in the world,” and warned that Assad’s regime could "treat us the same way they treat their own people."

Some Israeli politicians claim the Syrian government is already using chemical weapons against its population. A senior member of the ruling Likud party, Ayoob Kara, told Israel Radio on June 9 that the Syrian government is using “chemical weapons against men, women, and children.”

They have become the latest in the chorus of Israeli high ranking officials who have rushed to voice their concerns over Syria’s alleged chemical arsenal.

The head of Israel's Northern Command responsible for the front that borders Lebanon and Syria, Maj. Gen. Yair Golan, warned that Assad’s regime could pass its chemical weapons to Lebanon-based Hezbollah if the regime of President Bashar al-Assad crumbles under the militant attacks that have lasted for over a year now.

According to the general, this could happen if Assad’s regime loses control over its military bases. Simultaneously, Maj. Gen. Golan openly called Syria a “failed state.”

Israel would not mind if international forces invade Syria to oust President Assad.

Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Shaul Mofaz believes the world should unite to crush Assad’s regime, the same as it did in Libya, where coalition forces overthrew Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.

"A crime against humanity, genocide, is being conducted in Syria today. And the silence of the world powers is contrary to all human logic," Mofaz announced.

"Since in the not-distant past the powers chose military intervention in Libya, here the required conclusion would be immediate military intervention to bring down the Assad regime,” he said.

But he made it clear that Israel would not take part in the intervention.

"We cannot get involved, for understandable reasons. But I think that the West, led by the United States, has an interest in guarding the threshold (so) genocide does not take place,” Mofaz told Reuters.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been more cautious in his remarks, telling Bild newspaper that the military intervention is “a decision for the leading powers who are now talking about it.” He added that the less he says about it as prime minister of Israel, the better.

However, he used the opportunity to link alleged crimes of the Syrian regime with Israel’s arch-enemies.

“This is a slaughter carried out not only by the Syrian government. It is being helped by Iran and Hezbollah,” he said in broadcast remarks to his cabinet on Sunday.

The international pressure on President Bashar al-Assad’s regime has been mounting for the last 15 months, but Israel has only recently openly added its voice to anti-Assad rhetoric.

Meanwhile, recently information surfaced about armed Syrian opposition planning a provocation with the use of chemical weapons. Reportedly, they have obtained chemical weapons from Libya and plan to use it against Syrian civilians, shifting the blame for the atrocity on the government forces.

In the light of the recent Israeli rhetoric over Syria’s alleged chemical stockpile threat, fears arise that the chemical weapons ghost story might become an excuse for a foreign intervention into the country.

There has already been a precedent when the alleged weapons of mass destruction were used as an excuse for a foreign military intervention in Iraq.

The international military operation against regime of Saddam Hussein in 2003 was officially aimed at stripping the dictator of weapons of mass destruction – which were never found – while Saddam was hanged by hasty executioners after a short trial.

Source :rt.com

Israel may use military force ‘to secure’ Syria’s alleged chemical arsenal

Israeli soldiers (Reuters/Ronen Zvulun)

The Israeli army is considering using military force to prevent Syria’s alleged chemical warfare stockpiles from getting into the hands of Hezbollah or Al-Qaeda. Tel-Aviv believes that Damascus is no longer capable of securing its arsenal.

­Syria has never declared it possesses chemical weapons stocks, but the Israeli military does not put its existence under question. Tel Aviv believes Syria has been busy producing mustard and nerve gas for the last 40 years.

On Monday Israeli Maj. Gen. Yair Naveh, the country’s deputy military chief, warned that Syria could pose a threat to Israel with its chemical weapons. He declared Syria has “the largest chemical warfare stockpiles in the world,” and warned that Assad’s regime could "treat us the same way they treat their own people."

Some Israeli politicians claim the Syrian government is already using chemical weapons against its population. A senior member of the ruling Likud party, Ayoob Kara, told Israel Radio on June 9 that the Syrian government is using “chemical weapons against men, women, and children.”

They have become the latest in the chorus of Israeli high ranking officials who have rushed to voice their concerns over Syria’s alleged chemical arsenal.

The head of Israel's Northern Command responsible for the front that borders Lebanon and Syria, Maj. Gen. Yair Golan, warned that Assad’s regime could pass its chemical weapons to Lebanon-based Hezbollah if the regime of President Bashar al-Assad crumbles under the militant attacks that have lasted for over a year now.

According to the general, this could happen if Assad’s regime loses control over its military bases. Simultaneously, Maj. Gen. Golan openly called Syria a “failed state.”

Israel would not mind if international forces invade Syria to oust President Assad.

Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Shaul Mofaz believes the world should unite to crush Assad’s regime, the same as it did in Libya, where coalition forces overthrew Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.

"A crime against humanity, genocide, is being conducted in Syria today. And the silence of the world powers is contrary to all human logic," Mofaz announced.

"Since in the not-distant past the powers chose military intervention in Libya, here the required conclusion would be immediate military intervention to bring down the Assad regime,” he said.

But he made it clear that Israel would not take part in the intervention.

"We cannot get involved, for understandable reasons. But I think that the West, led by the United States, has an interest in guarding the threshold (so) genocide does not take place,” Mofaz told Reuters.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been more cautious in his remarks, telling Bild newspaper that the military intervention is “a decision for the leading powers who are now talking about it.” He added that the less he says about it as prime minister of Israel, the better.

However, he used the opportunity to link alleged crimes of the Syrian regime with Israel’s arch-enemies.

“This is a slaughter carried out not only by the Syrian government. It is being helped by Iran and Hezbollah,” he said in broadcast remarks to his cabinet on Sunday.

The international pressure on President Bashar al-Assad’s regime has been mounting for the last 15 months, but Israel has only recently openly added its voice to anti-Assad rhetoric.

Meanwhile, recently information surfaced about armed Syrian opposition planning a provocation with the use of chemical weapons. Reportedly, they have obtained chemical weapons from Libya and plan to use it against Syrian civilians, shifting the blame for the atrocity on the government forces.

In the light of the recent Israeli rhetoric over Syria’s alleged chemical stockpile threat, fears arise that the chemical weapons ghost story might become an excuse for a foreign intervention into the country.

There has already been a precedent when the alleged weapons of mass destruction were used as an excuse for a foreign military intervention in Iraq.

The international military operation against regime of Saddam Hussein in 2003 was officially aimed at stripping the dictator of weapons of mass destruction – which were never found – while Saddam was hanged by hasty executioners after a short trial.

Source :rt.com

Israel looks to make unmanned systems harder to destroy

New sensors designed to detect unmanned air systems and weapon systems aimed at shooting them down will force UAS manufacturers to make their products harder to destroy, Israeli sources say.

Russia has already embarked on an effort to develop radar systems capable of detecting even small UAS, and Israeli sources say the technology's potential spread means methods of protecting current and future air vehicles will be required.

No specific details about such an effort have emerged yet, but it seems likely that future large UAS will be required to carry more electronic countermeasures equipment. For smaller systems, another option would be to operate "swarms" of aircraft to enable some to penetrate a defended area.

Source : http://www.flightglobal.com

"The proliferation of UAS in the world and the increasing variety of missions they perform has brought an effort to handle the threat as if it is a manned aerial platform," one source notes.

Israel looks to make unmanned systems harder to destroy

New sensors designed to detect unmanned air systems and weapon systems aimed at shooting them down will force UAS manufacturers to make their products harder to destroy, Israeli sources say.

Russia has already embarked on an effort to develop radar systems capable of detecting even small UAS, and Israeli sources say the technology's potential spread means methods of protecting current and future air vehicles will be required.

No specific details about such an effort have emerged yet, but it seems likely that future large UAS will be required to carry more electronic countermeasures equipment. For smaller systems, another option would be to operate "swarms" of aircraft to enable some to penetrate a defended area.

Source : http://www.flightglobal.com

"The proliferation of UAS in the world and the increasing variety of missions they perform has brought an effort to handle the threat as if it is a manned aerial platform," one source notes.

Israel encrypts UAVs as cyberwar widens

disclaimer: image is for illustration purposes only

Israel's military is expected shortly to take delivery of an advanced model of the Skylark 1 unmanned aerial vehicle that will be equipped with electronic jammers that will block efforts to intercept surveillance data.

The move comes amid a sharp escalation in Israel's cyber operations against Iran's highly secret nuclear program, which the Jewish state believes is aimed at developing nuclear weapons, and growing Iranian expertise in counter-measures.

A senior officer in Israel's military intelligence warned Monday Israel's foes were stepping up their efforts to gather electronic intelligence on Israel's armed forces and military capabilities, The Jerusalem Post reported.

"We're seeing an improvement by the other side in its ability to gather intelligence Â… the ability of a number of groups with varying capabilities to work against us," the officer said.

The 13-pound Skylark 1, developed by Elbit Systems, one of Israel's top electronic warfare specialists, has been supplied to army battalions as part of the Sky Rider Program aimed at providing combat unit commanders with real-time aerial surveillance capabilities.

The Skylark operation is part of a military-wide process to encrypt UAVs amid growing indications Israel's enemies can now hack into surveillance signals.

That process was initiated in 2010 after it became evident Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Shiite movement in Lebanon and one of Israel's most formidable foes, had succeeded in intercepting Israeli drone data.

This was used to ambush an Israeli Special Forces raid inside Lebanon in September 1997.

When the Israeli commandoes of Flotilla 13, the navy's Special Operations unit, were ambushed near Ansariya in south Lebanon, the military believed Hezbollah had gotten lucky but did not have any advance warning of the raid.

Eleven of the raiders, including the unit commander, Lt. Col. Yossi Korakin, were killed in a running battle. The handful of survivors were rescued by helicopters.

It wasn't until August 2010, when Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, claiming Israel had been involved in the February 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, publicly unveiled surveillance footage from an Israeli UAV in operation at the time of the Ansariya raid.

The Israeli military concluded the footage Hezbollah showed was genuine and had been intercepted during Israeli surveillance of the target zone prior to the actual nighttime raid that Hezbollah hailed as a major victory.

Nasrallah also displayed what he said were Israeli aerial surveillance tapes of routes used by Hariri between his Beirut residence and Parliament, claiming these indicated Israeli involvement in the assassination of Lebanon's most prominent statesman.

A U.N.-mandated special tribunal has indicted four members of Hezbollah, including two senior figures, for the suicide bombing that killed Hariri and 22 other people.

Hezbollah's ability to intercept Israeli UAV surveillance data undoubtedly benefited from major technological support provided by intelligence units of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which maintains cells in Lebanon and inside Hezbollah.

The Shiite movement, which fought the Israeli army to a standstill in a 34-day war in the summer of 2006, is armed and heavily funded by Tehran.

Iran is Israel's primary adversary in the ever-expanding intelligence war and has been targeted in several cyberattacks, widely blamed on Israel and the United States, that began in 2009.

These began with the Stuxnet computer worm that sabotaged Iran's uranium enrichment process at its Natanz facility.

The most recent attack attributed to U.S.-Israeli intelligence was in April, when a more advanced super-virus, dubbed W.32 Flame, hit the control systems of Iran's oil export terminals.

Cyber experts say Flame, the most complex computer worm so far detected, is able to steal vast amounts of data.

U.S. officials say the cyberattacks are part of a systematic offensive by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and Israel's intelligence establishment against Iran.

But the Iranians are clearly making major advances in their cyber capabilities, suggesting Israel -- and the United States -- face a more sophisticated foe.

Iran captured an advanced U.S. UAV in December 2011, claiming it hacked into the craft's GPS guidance system and forced it to land.

The CIA-operated RQ-170 Sentinel is one of the United States' most valuable intelligence assets, crammed with advanced electronic systems.

Gen. Amir Ali Hajisadeh, commander of the IRGC's aerospace division, said April 23 his teams had cracked the U.S. codes and were building an Iranian version of the spy craft.

Source : http://www.spacedaily.com

Israel encrypts UAVs as cyberwar widens

disclaimer: image is for illustration purposes only

Israel's military is expected shortly to take delivery of an advanced model of the Skylark 1 unmanned aerial vehicle that will be equipped with electronic jammers that will block efforts to intercept surveillance data.

The move comes amid a sharp escalation in Israel's cyber operations against Iran's highly secret nuclear program, which the Jewish state believes is aimed at developing nuclear weapons, and growing Iranian expertise in counter-measures.

A senior officer in Israel's military intelligence warned Monday Israel's foes were stepping up their efforts to gather electronic intelligence on Israel's armed forces and military capabilities, The Jerusalem Post reported.

"We're seeing an improvement by the other side in its ability to gather intelligence Â… the ability of a number of groups with varying capabilities to work against us," the officer said.

The 13-pound Skylark 1, developed by Elbit Systems, one of Israel's top electronic warfare specialists, has been supplied to army battalions as part of the Sky Rider Program aimed at providing combat unit commanders with real-time aerial surveillance capabilities.

The Skylark operation is part of a military-wide process to encrypt UAVs amid growing indications Israel's enemies can now hack into surveillance signals.

That process was initiated in 2010 after it became evident Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Shiite movement in Lebanon and one of Israel's most formidable foes, had succeeded in intercepting Israeli drone data.

This was used to ambush an Israeli Special Forces raid inside Lebanon in September 1997.

When the Israeli commandoes of Flotilla 13, the navy's Special Operations unit, were ambushed near Ansariya in south Lebanon, the military believed Hezbollah had gotten lucky but did not have any advance warning of the raid.

Eleven of the raiders, including the unit commander, Lt. Col. Yossi Korakin, were killed in a running battle. The handful of survivors were rescued by helicopters.

It wasn't until August 2010, when Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, claiming Israel had been involved in the February 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, publicly unveiled surveillance footage from an Israeli UAV in operation at the time of the Ansariya raid.

The Israeli military concluded the footage Hezbollah showed was genuine and had been intercepted during Israeli surveillance of the target zone prior to the actual nighttime raid that Hezbollah hailed as a major victory.

Nasrallah also displayed what he said were Israeli aerial surveillance tapes of routes used by Hariri between his Beirut residence and Parliament, claiming these indicated Israeli involvement in the assassination of Lebanon's most prominent statesman.

A U.N.-mandated special tribunal has indicted four members of Hezbollah, including two senior figures, for the suicide bombing that killed Hariri and 22 other people.

Hezbollah's ability to intercept Israeli UAV surveillance data undoubtedly benefited from major technological support provided by intelligence units of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which maintains cells in Lebanon and inside Hezbollah.

The Shiite movement, which fought the Israeli army to a standstill in a 34-day war in the summer of 2006, is armed and heavily funded by Tehran.

Iran is Israel's primary adversary in the ever-expanding intelligence war and has been targeted in several cyberattacks, widely blamed on Israel and the United States, that began in 2009.

These began with the Stuxnet computer worm that sabotaged Iran's uranium enrichment process at its Natanz facility.

The most recent attack attributed to U.S.-Israeli intelligence was in April, when a more advanced super-virus, dubbed W.32 Flame, hit the control systems of Iran's oil export terminals.

Cyber experts say Flame, the most complex computer worm so far detected, is able to steal vast amounts of data.

U.S. officials say the cyberattacks are part of a systematic offensive by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and Israel's intelligence establishment against Iran.

But the Iranians are clearly making major advances in their cyber capabilities, suggesting Israel -- and the United States -- face a more sophisticated foe.

Iran captured an advanced U.S. UAV in December 2011, claiming it hacked into the craft's GPS guidance system and forced it to land.

The CIA-operated RQ-170 Sentinel is one of the United States' most valuable intelligence assets, crammed with advanced electronic systems.

Gen. Amir Ali Hajisadeh, commander of the IRGC's aerospace division, said April 23 his teams had cracked the U.S. codes and were building an Iranian version of the spy craft.

Source : http://www.spacedaily.com

Govt watchdog slams Israel PM over handling of flotilla

Israel's state watchdog on Wednesday sharply criticised Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over his handling of a 2010 military raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla which left nine Turks dead.

"In the process of decision making, which was led by the prime minister and under his responsibility, over the handling of the (flotilla), there were significant shortcomings," said a report published on Wednesday by State Comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss.

Source : http://www.afp.com

Govt watchdog slams Israel PM over handling of flotilla

Israel's state watchdog on Wednesday sharply criticised Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over his handling of a 2010 military raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla which left nine Turks dead.

"In the process of decision making, which was led by the prime minister and under his responsibility, over the handling of the (flotilla), there were significant shortcomings," said a report published on Wednesday by State Comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss.

Source : http://www.afp.com

Russia, Israel to jointly produce new drone

Russia and Israel may soon start joint production of a new brand of an unmanned plane.

It is planned that the drones will be used by the forces of both countries and sold to other countries.

At present, Russia and Israel are holding talks to that end.

This was revealed by Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, who praised the Israelis as good experts in producing drones.

He said that Russia will soon stop purchasing drones produced in the West.

Mr. Rogozin also said that Russia today actively cooperates with France – for example, in producing thermovision equipment.

Source :Moscow Times

Russia, Israel to jointly produce new drone

Russia and Israel may soon start joint production of a new brand of an unmanned plane.

It is planned that the drones will be used by the forces of both countries and sold to other countries.

At present, Russia and Israel are holding talks to that end.

This was revealed by Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, who praised the Israelis as good experts in producing drones.

He said that Russia will soon stop purchasing drones produced in the West.

Mr. Rogozin also said that Russia today actively cooperates with France – for example, in producing thermovision equipment.

Source :Moscow Times