Israel Aerospace Industries

In this episode, I speak with Mr. Che Gall, founder and principal of Line of State, an international strategic practice working across strategy, government relations, security architecture, and international affairs.

Mr. Gal is also the former Vice President of External Relations at Israel Aerospace Industries.

His recent work focuses on the Eastern Mediterranean, the Israel-Greece Cyprus Partnership, Turkey's regional contact, European strategic autonomy, energy corridors, and maritime security.

Our conversation does not follow the usual news cycle of incidents, reactions, and diplomatic statements.

And, you know, you can have a long discussion about it, but in the end of the day, I think it's clear that there's a position that the party has taken.

You know, when I interviewed Elif Eralp, I questioned her on whether or not she will go up against security cooperation between Israeli arms industries, IAI, Israel's largest state-owned weapons manufacturer, and the city of Berlin, which the former CDU government explicitly, in a memorandum of understanding, they affirmed that they want to have weapons productions by IAI here in the city.

And LFRF said, no, I will not have that.

As long as the ICJ case of accusing Israel of genocide is ongoing, we will prevent that.

And lo and behold, Elta...

Israel Aerospace Industries walked by.

They saw the technology and goes, do you work outdoors and do you work on drones? And I, being a smart aleck, said, no, we don't.

We're an indoor technology.

According to a statement via Salina Updates, this action is part of a steel wall blockade against Iranian ports.

Looking towards the future, Bose Levy, chairman of Israel Aerospace Industries, discussed the evolving battlefield.

Speaking to Mariv podcast via jpost.com, Levi described a future heavily reliant on space-based assets, artificial intelligence, robotics and advanced missiles, emphasising the need for seamless connectivity between all operational bodies.

He also highlighted IAI's status as a space superpower and detailed an approved plan for a satellite constellation aimed at continuous tracking.

In economic and technological news, US tech giant Google is expanding its research and development presence in Israel, establishing a new engineering group dedicated to building artificial intelligence chips for robots and autonomous systems.

Simultaneously, Israel Aerospace Industries has developed a robotic system to enable D9 bulldozers to operate remotely or autonomously for dangerous missions.

On demographics, Israel's population has now surpassed 10.3 million people, showing a continued growth of 1.2% annually, largely driven by births, with a fertility rate remaining near three children per woman.

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At its core are David Sling, Barak MX, and spider missile defense systems developed by the Israeli defense companies and already deployed operationally within Israel's own air defense arrays.

The package also includes MMR radars produced by IAI subsidiary ELTA for air surveillance coverage and a new national command and control system developed by Rafael to integrate all layers into a single operational picture.

The agreement represents the first time Israel will supply a complete end-to-end air defense array to another country.

According to a statement released by the defense ministry, the architecture is based entirely on Israeli systems and incorporates operational lessons drawn from Israel's recent wars, wherein the systems played central roles in intercepting thousands of hostile aerial targets, including drones and ballistic missiles launched by Iran, Hezbollah, and the Houthis in Yemen.

Israel was furious, did not waste time weeping into its diplomatic cables.

Through daring spycraft and audacious reverse engineering, Israel Aircraft Industries acquired the blueprints, swapped the French engines for American General Electric J79 turbojets, and produced the Nesher, which in Hebrew means eagle or vulture.

Easily the world's best-named fighter jet, the Nesher proved devastating during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, racking up scores of air-to-air kills.

Israel Aircraft Industries followed this triumph with the Kfir, meaning lion cub, an aggressively upgraded, indigenously produced delta wing fighter equipped with Israeli avionics and radar.

Unlike the Nesher, the Kfir was not a makeshift patch.

It was a frontline multi-role platform that served the Israeli Air Force with distinction and was exported to Ecuador, Colombia, and Sri Lanka, with even the US leasing some to use as adversary aircraft.

Yet it managed to out-engineer global superpowers.

By 1980, Israel was ready to take the next logical step, a clean-sheet fourth-generation combat aircraft designed from the ground up for the Israeli Air Force's unique tactical doctrines.