Israeli Navy chief inspects guard of honour, meets his Indian counterpart
January 19th, 2010 - 1:42 pm ICT by ANINew Delhi, Jan 19 (ANI): Israeli Navy chief Vice-Admiral Eliezer Marom inspected a guard of honour in New Delhi on Tuesday and later met Indian Navy chief Admiral Nirmal Verma, with the aim of expanding strategic-military ties between the two nations.
Vice-Admiral Marom is slated to hold wide-ranging talks in the next few days for expanding strategic military ties.
The Israeli Navy chief is also expected to hold discussions with Defence Minister A.K Antony, Army Chief General Deepak Kapoor and Air Chief Marshal PV Naik.
During his visit, Vice-Admiral Marom will also visit the South-Western Army Command in Jaipur and the Western Naval Command in Mumbai.
Israel is eager to sell more and more military hardware and software to India.
Israel, on its part, is already the second largest defence supplier to India after Russia, with New Delhi having done military business worth around $9 billion with Tel Aviv since the 1999 Kargil conflict.
The focus in Indo-Israeli military partnership is now on having more joint R&D projects, with New Delhi keen to ensure that the ongoing ones fructify within specified timeframes.
The Rs 2,606 crore project between DRDO and Israeli Aerospace Industries (IAI) to develop a supersonic 70-km range Barak-NG (next generation) missile defence system for Indian Navy, for instance, is slated for completion by May 2011.
IAF, too, wants to induct nine air defence squadrons under the mammoth Rs 10,075 crore DRDO-IAI project to develop a medium-range surface-to-air missile (MR-SAM) system, capable of detecting and destroying hostile aircraft at a 80-km range, at the earliest. (ANI)
- Defence procurements are as per laid down procedure: Antony - Dec 14, 2009
- India and Israel in anti-terror front (Lead) - Dec 22, 2009
- India, Israel discuss cooperation against terror - Dec 22, 2009
- Indian Air Force chief begins Bangladesh trip - Mar 18, 2012
- Israeli defence chief coming to India - Dec 08, 2009
- Israeli military delegation to visit India to strengthen ties (Lead) - Dec 03, 2009
- Israeli defence delegation to visit India next week - Dec 03, 2009
- Israel to test missile defence system - Mar 02, 2012
- Israel to test next-generation missile defense system - Mar 02, 2012
- India to buy air defence missiles to secure vital installations - Apr 13, 2011
- February trial for naval air defence missile - Nov 16, 2011
- Pak Navy successfully test-fires surface-to-air missiles - Dec 28, 2010
- Medvedev replaces Russian Navy commander - May 07, 2012
- Experts hail Agni-V, want it operational soon - Apr 19, 2012
- India's first advanced radar system to roll out end-2011 - Nov 09, 2010
Tags: aerospace industries, air chief marshal, air defence squadrons, army command, deepak kapoor, drdo, guard of honour, hostile aircraft, indian counterpart, indian navy, israeli navy, kargil conflict, military ties, missile defence system, naval command, navy chief, sam system, surface to air missile, vice admiral, western army