Some #IsraelDefenseNews today; Lockheed Martin and Rafael Advanced Defense Systems signed an expanded teaming agreement, allowing the team to jointly develop, market, manufacture and support Rafael's Smart, Precise Impact and Cost-Effective (SPICE) 250 weapon @RAFAELdefense
Also this recently came out; ynetnews.com/business/artic…
And @ILAerospaceIAI will be at Dubai Air Show, "IAI will showcase a variety of its state-of-the-art systems, emphasizing its aviation products, including civil aviation, space systems, special-mission aircraft, and more."
SMART SHOOTER will present the unique SMASH technology that ‘locks on’ targets at the FEINDEF exhibition in Madrid.
A eries of interception tests of the TROPHY system integrated on the German LEOPARD Tank were completed successfully.
Israel Defense Minister Benny Gantz: “The advancement achieved by our industries in cooperation with our German friends and partners will further strengthen the capabilities of both our defense establishments. We will continue to work at the forefront of tech capabilities"
AND Gantz said "I had an important discussion with my friend and partner Secretary of Defense Austin about US-Israel coordination vis-a-vis Iranian regional entrenchment & its nuclear aspirations. We agreed to meet soon to deepen our discussion on strategic issues & military"
And #breakingnews; Arrival of U.S. Service Members to Israel for Ground Forces Training Exercise. IDF says "Yesterday (Monday) a helicopter carrier docked in the port of Eilat carrying hundreds of U.S. service members from the US Forward Expeditionary Force and the US Marine[s]"
"...[from] CENTCOM. The U.S. troops will participate in a two week-long multi-force training exercise alongside the Counter-Terrorism Unit, commando units and exposure and strikes forces who train in open and dense urban areas."
"The exercise is led by the Ground Forces as a component of the cooperation between the IDF and U.S. CENTCOM."

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🧵 Israel says that the Israel Missile Defense Organization Initiates Testing for Deployment of an “Elevated Sensor”
#IsraelDefenseNews #BREAKING (Image credit* Ministry of Defense Spokesperson’s Office)
“The Israel Missile Defense Organization (IMDO) in the Directorate of Defense R&D of the Israel Ministry of Defense, commenced inflation of a High Availability Aerostat System (HAAS) and initial testing for deployment of an Elevated Sensor (ES) system in Northern Israel”
“The HAAS is one of the world’s largest aerostats, developed and manufactured by TCOM, a U.S. company specializing in aerostat surveillance solutions. It is designed to carry an improved sensing system, to provide detection and early warning of advanced threats.”
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The conversation about Syria is so odd because in the 1990s when areas were invaded and people expelled we called it ethnic cleansing; today it’s all hidden behind “geopolitics” but no one gave Turkey or Russia a right to trade pieces of Syria. Only Syrians should have a say
I think in general this idea that outside countries can trade areas of Syria, usually along with massive refugee and ethnic cleansing movements of people like 1920s “population exchanges” is part of the dehumanizing discussion that harmed Syria for years
But it is built in now to articles on Syria. There is no pretense that Syrians will have any say in their future, not Syrians who support Assad or Syrians who back the SDF or those who back the SNA…it’s just what does Moscow, Ankara, US and Iran want
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I mean the reality is that the authoritarian leaders and countries that challenge US hegemony over the last years are signaling with their feet what they think of the summit and climate issue;
Be of the issues with how the western countries approached climate change issues is that they either have other countries a pass or assumed these countries would sign on beyond lip service, I think now what we’re seeing is countries just opening up the curtain
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Israel’s @RAFAELdefense which makes Iron Dome and Trophy among other systems says it will “Present at the Dubai Air Show 2021 for the 1st Time” Image
November 14-18, 2021: Rafael Advanced Defense Systems says it “will be participating in the 2021 Dubai Air Show, marking the company’s first large-scale presence in a global defense exposition within the United Arab Emirates.” Image
Rafael says “Throughout the week, Rafael will showcase some of its most advanced operational and combat-proven aerial defense solutions which are supported and enhanced by the use of artificial intelligence.”
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I once covered the EUPOL COPPS years ago, but I wonder, considering this "rule of law" mission aspect, it seems to me the PA has become more authoritarian over the years, so...see for instance, jpost.com/middle-east/pa…
I mean the idea was that western governments will invest large sums, the US for instance supported the security forces, USSC ("Dayton's army") to prevent Hamas takeover in 2006 etc...while EU was into the police, law and court system...
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Can one person explain to me what it means when "US State Department says Sudan's normalization efforts with Israel will have to be reevaluated following the coup"....what does it mean? What is being re-evaluated? How can the US decide for Sudan about Israel. I don't get it.
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The fact Sudan had a coup has nothing to do with sponsoring terror...that list shouldn't be a "we don't like you list"...but a list based on countries that actually sponsor terror. Since Sudan doesn't sponsor terror, what's the US going to re-evaluate.
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