In this thread we shall wantonly speculate about which system it is, which customer and why they want to keep it a secret.
>The Israeli Defense Ministry will supply air defense systems to an unnamed country as part of a $1.2 billion deal, the largest deal IAI history
>both the ministry and Israel Aerospace Industries declined to identify the type of system and the customer involved in the sale. The company, however, noted it is an “air defense system with advanced technological capabilities, which has been operationally proven.”
>Israeli media reports have cited the Barak air defense systems as a possibility.
>The Barak MR variant can reach a range of 35 kilometers (22 miles), and the Barak ER up to 150 kilometers (93 miles). Barak missiles are designed to intercept aircraft, medium-range ballistic missiles and cruise missiles.
>The Barak has several customers already, including Morocco, Colombia and India. The latter took part in the development phase of the Barak 8 variant.
>Other air and missile defense systems IAI sells include Arrow 2, Arrow 3, Sky Capture and Eagle Eye III VSHORAD.
>This latest contract is one of the largest deals in IAI’s history, and the third largest for an Israeli air defense system, after the sale of the Arrow 3 to Germany in August for $3.5 billion deal and the Barak 8 sale to India for $1.8 billion.
https://www.defensenews.com/industry/2023/11/09/israel-to-supply-air-defense-systems-to-mystery-customer-in-12b-deal/
It's Ukraine. I'm sure the US goverment told them to stop fucking around with Russia and gobbling Putins balls if they want another blank cheque.
>the US goverment told them to stop fucking around with Russia
It's rather because russia arms and trains hamas and other terrorists organizations that threat Israel. Israel was trying to have diplomatic relations with russia, but barbarians understand only one language - violence.
Where would Ukraine find 1.2B dollars? And why the secrecy? I think Bibi and Zelensky would jump at the opportunity for a selfie.
Zeleknsky was the only leader told not to visit Israel out of the ones that wanted to lmao.
Also Bibi is going to be too fucking proud to admit his Russia appeasment policy blew in his face.
>Where would Ukraine find 1.2B dollars?
The US.
>And why the secrecy? I think Bibi
Imma stop you there. Netanyahu has been sucking Russian cock his whole career.
>Netanyahu has been sucking Russian cock
source?
I don't think they needed US intervention, they just figured out sucking up to Putin is no longer worth the hassle since he's obsessed with gobbling muslim cock
My guess
Ukraine
some country in Asia who lacks AA/AD
Remember when Israel told Ukraine to surrender to Russia?
nope
Well, they did.
source?
What do you mean 'source'? Find it yourself. I provided one screencap, there are plenty on the web.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/senior-ukrainian-official-bennett-pushed-zelensky-to-surrender-to-putin-report/
There we go, from Israel itself.
>What do you mean 'source'? Find it yourself.
I don't make retarded claims:
>Israel told Ukraine to surrender to Russia
>I provided one screencap
Source of screencap.
>timesofisrael
I'm not clicking that.
That's nice you proved yourself wrong.
azerbaijan
It's confirmed to be Azerbaijan.
israelites would never supply anything to Ukraine, they would rather send this weapons directly to russia.
I bet its some arab country, hence the secrecy. 30 pieces of silver in exchange for turning gaza into a parking lot. kek
it's azerbaijan. the relationship is ongoing. they even sell them satellites
What's the deal with Azerbaijan? Why do NATO countries military support them, meanwhile they fuck up Armenia, which also is supported by NATO countries.
I don't understand.
Armenia isn't supported by NATO countries, it's officially meant to be supported by Russia through CSTO (but they pussied out) whereas Azerbaijan is supported by Turkey
the truth is Armenia has nothing to offer while Azerbaijan sits on massive gas reserves so there's an incentive to support them, which can't be said about the other side, in addition Azerbaijan is anti-Iran
>Armenia isn't supported by NATO countries
France.
>in addition Azerbaijan is anti-Iran
Really? I thought Armenia is anti-Iran.
Iran should be with Azerbaijan since their both Shia-bros for life. But in reality Iran supports Armenia while Israel supports Azerbaijan. I don't get it either.
>France
the only thing France ever did was making vague ceasefire calls, no one in Europe is going to stand out for Armenia because the EU needs Azerbaijan as an alternative gas supplier
>Really? I thought Armenia is anti-Iran.
nope, Armenia is backed by Iran
relations between Azerbaijan and Iran have always been tense, there's a sizable Azerbaijani minority in Iran (funnily enough Khamenei is one of them)
>the only thing France ever did was making vague ceasefire calls
France provided Armenia with UAVs and instructors. There was Azeri videos of France UAV crew + control station destruction (with high chance with instructors).
Also not a long ago France announced deal to sell AA equipment to Armenia.
Northwest Iran is populated by an important Turkish ethnic group. They are ofently repressed. So the frictions between Azerbaijan and Iran.
>France
France is just PrepHole at the national level, nothing but contrarian fuck sticks.
Money + oil for some NATO countries. Azerbaijan is supported by Turkey because Erdogan believes in Pan-Turkism. israelites support Azerbaijan because they are cooperating against Iran.
The main supporter of Armenia in NATO is France since it has a really big Armenian community.
what other anon said, basically.
1. the conflict is over land that, under international law, was occupied azeri territory.
2. until recently, armenia was the wealthier of the countries and had clear military superiority. this made them extremely over-confident and lax in taking preventative measures.
3. realist-influenced policy of keeping hands out of "russia's back yard", paired with the fact that nato is never gonna formally intervene in an intra-csto conflict.
4. armenian lobby is likely second only to israeli lobby in terms of ethnic interests with influence in the west, but the power players are also openly corrupt to a degree that puts most of the post-soviet states to shame. the US and co. can ignore corruption in, say, georgia to a certain degree, *after* a russian invasion, but even there, only so much can be done. but again, azerbaijan isn't russia and they weren't invading nagorno-karabakh, but book rules.
5. like anons are saying as i type this, o&g products to decouple from russian energy supplies. when the core of the EU "needs" its cheap replacement for russian gas, EU members quickly drop the mask of moral superiority to the US.
6. azerbaijan is part of the neo-ottoman turkic states plan from turkey. allowing turkey to undermine russian influence in the caucasus and eurasia, relatively unimpeded, simultaneously undermines persian, russian, and chinese revanchism. consider that the caucasus were historically seen as iran's sphere of influence. also consider that nato will be highly constrained in its ability to assist a nation like kazakhstan from either russian or chinese aggression. and finally, consider that turkey with an eastward gaze is good for black sea security, greece, and the attrition of hyper-theocratic islamist governments (turkey gets to play muslim when necessary, but fundamentally isn't even on the same plane of stupidity as other muslim nations).
7. $$$
*weren't invading by book rules
>4
I don't think anyone has heard much about Armenians
>ethnic interests with influence in the West
that'd be naggers
they allow israel to launch attacks on iran from their territory
Poland, they're on a spending spree for shit like this.
Poland is currently in the process of government change and not capable of doing anything productive.
New Polish gov will likely cancel all deals made by previous gov and reduce army size
Azerbaijan was interested in Arrow, they mightve bought a single battery with some missiles
Southern Cyprus maybe?
Saudi Arabia
interesting, tangentially related bit of sealift arcana: how the US likely transferred iron dome batteries back to israel. 2500 ton total
Its Romania. Constant collaboration with Israel and undergoing a massive modernization on all fronts. Their air defense apart from patriot batterys are absurdly outdated.
Also while looking at this I realized 50 BTR clones mysteriously disappeared between 2021 and 2022. probably nothing
Singapore
Unfortunately it's probably Azerbaijan. I wish for TTD so bad.
Its India
system was codeveloped with india, you braindead spamming retard
From how hush-hush IAI is being about it, it's either Ukraine or Taiwan.
Both are parties who would be in the market for air defense systems, while being geopolitically inconvenient for Israel to publicly acknowledge.
The thing that makes me question if it'd be Ukraine is that Russia has been publicly tweaking with the Israeli government since October 7th, and you'd think that if they wanted to send a message, they'd just outright say "enjoy dealing with our stuff in Ukraine".
It's Vietnam nigga