Military equipment of Israel

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The military equipment of Israel includes a wide array of arms, armored vehicles, artillery, missiles, planes, helicopters, and warships. Many of these are purchased overseas and many are indigenous designs. Until the Six-Day War of 1967, the Israel Defense Forces' principal supplier was France; since then, it has been the United States government and defense companies. In the early 21st century, Israeli companies such as Soltam Systems began selling arms to the United States. Much of the military equipment undergoes improvements in Israeli workshops. In addition to weapons purchased overseas and indigenous products, Israel also operates and maintains large stockpiles of Soviet-made equipment captured from Arab armies over the course of the Arab-Israeli conflict.

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History

During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, the military equipment in the IDF was very diverse and inconsistent. This was due to the severe limitation in obtaining war materiel (the British Mandate and the Arab embargo). During the 1950s, the IDF began the process of standardization, relying primarily on French military equipment.

During the Six Day War, the military cooperation with France ceased (the French Weapons Embargo of 1967) and Israel began to rely on American weaponry and on local research and development. During the 1980s and 1990s, the IDF increased its supplies of American arms, armor and aircraft, aiming for technological superiority over Arab countries, toward "a smaller, smarter army".

The reliance on locally manufactured military equipment has also greatly increased. Today, the overwhelming majority of Israel's military equipment is either manufactured in the United States (and often modified in Israeli workshops), or is developed and manufactured locally, with an increasing emphasis on advanced technology, including aerospace and electronics.

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Local military development

Some of the military equipment developed locally have been:

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Ground forces equipment

Small arms

Rocket and grenade launchers

Missiles

Vehicles

Artillery

Air defense

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Air forces equipment

Note there are multiple sources and these provide different figures:

Unmanned aerial vehicles

• IAI Heron
• IAI Eitan
• IAI Harpy
• IAI Harop
• Elbit Hermes 450
• Elbit Skylark

Weaponry

• MIM-104 Patriot surface-to-air missile
• MIM-23 Hawk surface-to-air missile (out of service)
• / Arrow anti-ballistic missile
• PB500A1 laser-guided hard-target penetration bomb
• M-85 cluster bomb
• CBU-58 cluster bomb
• Mk-20 Rockeye cluster bomb (out of service)
• Mark 84 bomb
• MPR500 penetration bomb
• Spice glide bomb
• GBU-39 Small Diameter Bomb
• Shafrir missile (out of service)
• Python air-to-air missile
• Popeye air-to-surface missile AKA AGM-142 Have Nap in US use
• Popeye Turbo SLCM suspected long range submarine-launched cruise missile, suspected nuclear weapon carrier
• Joint Direct Attack Munition guided bomb
• AGM-65 Maverick air-to-surface missile
• AGM-45 Shrike air-to-surface anti-radiation missile (out of service)
• AGM-78 Standard ARM air-to-surface anti-radiation missile (out of service)
• AGM-88 HARM air-to-surface anti-radiation missile
• AGM-114 Hellfire air-to-surface anti-tank missile
• AGM-62 Walleye glide bomb (out of service)
• AIM-120 AMRAAM air-to-air missile
• AIM-9 Sidewinder heat seeking air-to-air missile
• MIM-72 Chaparral surface-to-air missile
• Delilah cruise missile
• Iron Dome anti-rocket and mortar defense missile
• David's Sling surface-to-air missile
• Jericho II intermediate range ballistic missile, suspected nuclear
• Jericho III intercontinental ballistic missile, suspected nuclear

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Naval forces equipment

Below are the IDF's active service watercraft. The year of service, speed, full load displacement, and crew members, are in parentheses.

Missile boats

• Sa'ar 4 class missile boat (1970s; 32 kt; 450 tons; 45 crew members)
• Sa'ar 4.5 class missile boat (1980s; 31 kt; 488 tons; 53 crew members)

Corvettes

• / Sa'ar 5-class corvette (1990s; 33 kt; 1,227 tons; 64 crew members)

Patrol boats

• Dabur (1970s; 19 kt; 39 tons; 9 crew members)
• Shaldag (1989; ?; 50 kt; 15 crew members)
• Super Dvora Mk II (1996; 46 kt; 54 tons; 10 crew members)
• Nachshol (1997; 40 kt; 12 tons; 5 crew members)
• Super Dvora Mk III (2004; 47 kt; 54 tons; 10 crew members)

Support ships

• INS Bat Yam
• INS Bat Galim

Unmanned naval vehicles

• Protector USV

Submarines

• Dolphin (1992; 11 kt, 20 kt underwater; 1,640 tons, 1,900 tons underwater; 30 crew members)

Commando boats

• Dolphin type underwater craft
• Maiale type underwater craft
• Snunit boat
• Zaharon boat
• Moulit boat
• Morena rigid-hull inflatable boat

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Remote weapon systems

• Typhoon Weapon System
• Rafael Overhead Weapon Station
• Samson Remote Controlled Weapon Station

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Space systems

• AMOS communications satellite
• EROS earth observation satellite
• Ofeq reconnaissance satellite
• TecSAR reconnaissance satellite
• Shavit space launch vehicle

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Gallery

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See also

• Defense industry of Israel
• Nuclear weapons and Israel

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References

Notes

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Bibliography

• IISS (2017). The Military Balance 2017. Routledge. ISSN 0459-7222. 

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