U.S. officials are considering pausing or slowing some arms shipments to Israel to convince the government to heed U.S. calls to scale back its military assault in Gaza.
And their massive defense industry couldn’t produce those domestically somehow? I find that dubious if they’re the sixth largest arms exporter in the world, including one of the top 100 arms-producing aerospace companies. A top aerospace company can’t produce the right missiles for Israel? You expect me to buy that?
And if so, maybe Israel should have geared their defense industry towards arming themselves.
Complicated machines tend to depend on complicated global supply chains. It’s not at all surprising that a small country would rely on foreign sources for essential parts. I know the US tries to rely on only domestic supply chains for anything related to “national security”, but the US is also unique in the size of its military industrial complex. If I had to guess, I’d say China is probably the only other country that can fully equip its military without the help of allies.
Maybe they should have developed their own rocket motors with their 6th largest arms exporter in the world factories. Or are you now going to tell me that Israel couldn’t have nationalized those factories the minute the first rocket landed decades ago?
I wouldn’t doubt they need specific things. Like motors for Arrow missles for the Iron dome and 155 shells in case Hezbollah acts up.
And their massive defense industry couldn’t produce those domestically somehow? I find that dubious if they’re the sixth largest arms exporter in the world, including one of the top 100 arms-producing aerospace companies. A top aerospace company can’t produce the right missiles for Israel? You expect me to buy that?
And if so, maybe Israel should have geared their defense industry towards arming themselves.
Complicated machines tend to depend on complicated global supply chains. It’s not at all surprising that a small country would rely on foreign sources for essential parts. I know the US tries to rely on only domestic supply chains for anything related to “national security”, but the US is also unique in the size of its military industrial complex. If I had to guess, I’d say China is probably the only other country that can fully equip its military without the help of allies.
The rocket motors have always been supplied by the US. Other pieces of iron dome are supplied too. They build the rockets themselves.
Maybe they should have developed their own rocket motors with their 6th largest arms exporter in the world factories. Or are you now going to tell me that Israel couldn’t have nationalized those factories the minute the first rocket landed decades ago?
I hope you understand that they export light weapons.
Really? An aerospace company, one of the 100 largest in the world, exports light weapons?
Edit: Interesting what you call small arms- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Aerospace_Industries