What
we've given Israelis
- UK Arms exports to Israel
The Mirror (UK)
10 July 2002
UK arms exports to Israel from 1997-2001 (from Strategic Export
Controls annual reports)
1997:
181 licences granted (60 under Tories to May 1
election), including aircraft engines, spares and components, shotgun
ammunition, missiles and launchers, military explosives, gun spares,
smoke pellets, tear gas.
1998:
309 licences granted, of which 88 were open ended, including combat
aircraft castings, optical target tracking, components for airborne
targeting system,ARMS: Anti-tank guns assault vehicles, body armour,
combat aircraft, command and control vehicles, flight simulator,
machine guns, light guns, light gun ammunition.
1999:
229 licences (39 were open ended), worth £11.5million, including:
air rifles, airborne surveillance systems, components for armoured
fighting vehicles, air to surface missiles, bombs, combat aircraft,
combat helicopters, heavy gun ammunition, missile control/launching
system, smoke canisters, and small arms ammunition, castings for
airborne targeting system, combat aircraft, infrared/thermal imaging
equipment, training aircraft, grenades and tanks.
2000:
209 licences (18 were open ended), worth £12.5million, including
anti-aircraft ammunition, anti-aircraft guns, components for anti-tank
missiles, components for armoured fighting vehicles, components
for combat aircraft, components for combat helicopters, components
for tanks, components for rifles, components for small calibre artillery
ammunition, equipment for anti-aircraft guns, rifles, small arms
ammunition.
2001:
299 licences (23 open-ended). Details released later this month.
Jan-Apr
2002: 59 licences.
EXPORT: JDAM vehicles
Major US arms exports to Israel include:
1997:
64 air-to-air missiles
1999:
50 F-16i fighter jets, £1bn; 480 Hellfire air-to-surface
missiles
2000:
5 B200 combat helicopters; 57 AMRAAM air to air missiles; 9 AH-64D
helicopters; 35 UH-60L helicopters
2001:
Nine new Boeing Apache AH-64Ds for army, £400m;
24 Sikorsky S-70A Black Hawk utility helicopters; 52 F-16i ground
attack fighters, £1.6bn; 50 Lockheed Martin F-16 fighter jets,
£1bn.
2002:
Rifle parts and 30,000 M-16 rifles; 102 M61 Gatling Guns for F-16i
fighters, £4m; 24 Black Hawk helicopters from Sikorsky, £170m;
228 Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAM) guided vehicles, £3.5m.
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