Defense Ministry Director General Maj. Gen. (Res.) Amir Baram has instructed the Ministry’s mission to the US to sign a contract with the US government to procure the fifth and sixth refueling aircraft for the Israeli Air Force.<\/p>\n
The aircraft are manufactured by Boeing, and the procurement is expected to proceed after it receives the approval of the Israel Defense Procurement Ministerial Committee.<\/p>\n
This is a follow-on contract with the US government for procuring two advanced refueling aircraft in addition to four previously purchased KC-46 aircraft. This will expand the IDF\u2019s new refueling fleet to six aircraft. The new aircraft will be equipped with Israeli systems and adapted to the Israeli Air Force’s (IAF) operational requirements.<\/p>\n
The contract\u2019s scope is estimated at approximately half a billion USD and is funded through US aid. It represents a significant milestone in the extensive force buildup that the IMOD is conducting for the IDF.<\/p>\n
Maj. Gen. (Res.) Amir Baram said: \u201cThe fifth and sixth refueling aircraft will strengthen the IAF – the IDF’s long-range strategic arm – enabling it to reach distant theaters with greater force and scope. We will continue to work together to strengthen the IDF in the current campaign and toward future challenges.\u201d<\/p>\n
Boeing Israel President Maj. Gen. (Res.) Ido Nehushtan said: \u201cBoeing takes pride in its longstanding partnership with Israel, a relationship that dates back to the nation\u2019s establishment. The KC-46A tanker aircraft will provide the world\u2019s most advanced multi-mission aerial refueling capability to the IAF.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Defense Ministry Director General Maj. Gen. (Res.) Amir Baram has instructed the Ministry’s mission to the US to…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":161897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[19031,18819,39752,16969,4784,99,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-161896","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-aircraft","9":"tag-boeing","10":"tag-defense-ministry","11":"tag-iaf","12":"tag-idf","13":"tag-israel","14":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115062815165918281","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}