Major  Israeli defense and military companies are among leading international industries that will participate in the  Eurosatory 2008, an international defense show and conference  that begins on June 16 in Paris and ends on June 20.

Considered the fourth biggest exporter of weapons in the world, Israel  made a total of $5.3 billion in exports for 2007.

In February, Israel participated in the  Singapore Air Show 2008 and had  the second largest exhibition at the fair. Israeli exhibits include, the Green Pine Radar System, the LAHAT- Laser Homing Attack Missile, the BirdEye 400 an advanced affordable mini UAV system, which provides realtime imagery for military and law-enforcement squads. MARS²,  a Multi-Role Airborne System designed to operate as a fast-deployment, all-in-one task force. The EL/I-3001 multi-platform, multi-role Airborne Integrated Signal Intelligence System (AISIS). will be shown on a Gulfstream G-550 aircraft. The system is designed to cope with the challenges of modern dense non-communication (mostly radar) and communication network environments and to perform long-range, high-endurance SIGINT missions.

Also this year,  Israel Aerospace Industries signed a memorandum of understanding with Tata Industries Lt, in India,  to set up a joint defense technology company in India. The company plans to develop and produce missiles, unmanned aerial vehicles, radar systems as well as electronic warfare and homeland security systems. Over thrity countries participated in a four day defense fair in India called Def Expo which  closed on Tuesday. The countries included US, Russia, Israel, Britain, France, Italy, Poland, South Africa, Sweden as well as official delegations sent from Mozambique, Ghana, Nigeria and Afghanistan. 06/15/08

Margot Dudkevitch

Infolive.tv

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