Israel Signs $3 Billion Deal with U.S. for Another F-35 Squadron
Israel will purchase a third squadron of 25 F-35 Lightning II aircraft from U.S. manufacturer Lockheed Martin, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant announced Sunday.
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Israel will purchase a third squadron of 25 F-35 Lightning II aircraft from U.S. manufacturer Lockheed Martin, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant announced Sunday.
Israel wasted no time in conducting retaliatory airstrikes on targets in Lebanon and continued bombarding the Gaza Strip on Friday in response to terrorist rocket strikes against the Jewish state.
Israel is keeping the Biden administration out of the loop about its recent undercover activities in Iran, CNN said Tuesday in a report citing sources close to the matter. “Israel appears to have escalated its targeted killings and other gray-zone
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Sunday warned Iran against carrying out terror attacks against Israelis abroad, amid “concrete” threats that Israeli tourists were being targeted for killings and kidnappings in Turkey.
The Israeli Air Force (IAF) has made dramatic developments aimed at preparing for an attack on Iran, including integrating a precision one-ton bomb in the belly of its F-35s, and updating the stealth fighter jets for long-haul flights direct to the Islamic Republic.
The Israeli Air Force simulated an attack on Iranian nuclear targets with dozens of fighter jets over the Mediterranean Sea on Tuesday night, the Israeli military said.
The Israeli military’s chief of staff on Monday warned that the army was accelerating plans for a potential attack against Iran’s nuclear program.
Israeli leaders on Wednesday morning issued fresh threats to Iran after the military conducted overnight airstrikes on the Islamic Republic’s Quds Force in Syria, with the defense minister saying even Tehran’s leaders were “not immune.”
Aircraft from the Israeli Air Force (IAF) have joined allies from Germany, Italy and the UK in British skies to participate in Exercise Cobra Warrior.
Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip fired a single rocket into Israel early Monday, which was intercepted by the Iron Dome system, the army said. There were no reports of injuries.
Israel has carried out attacks in Syria since the accidental shooting down of a Russian surveillance plane last month, a senior Israeli official said on Monday.
JERUSALEM – Israeli warplanes hit Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip early on Thursday in response to rocket fire from the territory into southern Israel, the army said.
TEL AVIV – Following a barrage of more than 180 rockets, the IDF issued directives to residents of southern Israel on Wednesday night and Thursday morning, instructing them to close down summer camps and stay near bomb shelters.
BELGRADE, Serbia — Serbia denounced Israel on Monday because its military jets and envoys took part in a ceremony in Croatia marking a victorious 1995 offensive against rebel Serb-held territories.
Syrian President Bashar Assad on Thursday denied the presence in his country of any Iranian troops.
Israel has notified Russia of its decision to expand its “red lines”—as it pertains to operations against Iran in Syria—to the entirety of its northern neighbor’s territory rather than just the southern portion of the country as it had so far, the Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper reported Saturday evening.
Israeli jets have continued to strike targets in Syria following the recent Iranian missile barrage against IDF posts in the Golan Heights, a senior Israel Air Force officer said on Tuesday.
BEIRUT — At least 28 pro-government fighters have been killed in a string of blasts at a regime airbase in central Syria earlier this weekend, a monitor said Sunday as it upped the death toll.
The Royal Air Force proudly took to the skies over Israel as the Jewish state celebrated its 70th birthday with a dramatic flypast.
JERUSALEM – Israeli fighter jets targeted a Hamas “military target” in northern Gaza on Monday in response to Palestinians infiltrating the border and laying bombs the previous day, the army said.
Lockheed Martin has been awarded a contract for procurement of initial air vehicle spares for F-35 air vehicle deliveries in support of the government of Israel.
An initial Israeli Air Force investigation indicated that Saturday’s F-16 fighter jet crash was caused by explosion of an anti-aircraft missile next to the plane, but not necessarily from a direct hit, the army said.
The condition of a seriously wounded Israeli pilot began to improve Saturday, after he underwent surgery for injuries he sustained while ejecting from his plane over northern Israel, in the midst of a severe confrontation between Israel, Syria, and Iran.
Syrian media reported that Israel targeted several positions belonging to an Islamic State group affiliate in southern Syrian on Thursday.
The Israeli army overnight carried out air strikes and fired rockets at targets in Syria, causing damage near a “military position”, the Syrian army said in a statement on Tuesday.
The Israeli Air Force struck Hamas terror targets in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday night in Israel’s second response to three rockets that were fired from the coastal territory towards the Jewish state on Friday.
The Israeli Air Force on Monday afternoon conducted fresh strikes on two Palestinian Islamic Jihad positions in the central Gaza Strip, in response to a mortar attack by the terror group against an IDF post earlier in the day, the army said.
Ynetnews reports: Two rockets hit near Damascus airport at dawn on Friday, Lebanese TV station al-Mayadeen reported, in an attack it said had probably been carried out by Israeli warplanes from outside Syria’s borders.
Mitchell Flint, an American aviator who helped form the Israeli Air Force in 1948 and served in Israel’s first fighter squadron has died. He was 94.
An Israeli satellite imaging company released photographs on Sunday showing the effects of last week’s airstrike on a Syrian weapons base that was attributed to the Israeli Air Force.
The Israeli Air Force conducted a test of its Patriot air defense systems on Tuesday evening, launching multiple interceptor missiles into the skies over central Israel, the army revealed the following day.
The Israeli Air Force conducted a test of its aerial defense systems on Tuesday evening, firing multiple interceptor missiles into the air over central Israel, the army said.
Members of Wilyat Sinai, the Egyptian branch of Islamic State, have been seeking to increase the recruitment of Gazan jihadists to join IS in Sinai, a senior jihadist in Gaza has told Breitbart Jerusalem.
A drone flying from the Gaza Strip fell in Israel on Saturday, the Israel Defense Forces said.
TEL AVIV — The Israel Defense Forces on Saturday retaliated against a Syrian military position after two projectiles launched from Syria struck Israel’s Golan Heights earlier in the day.
TEL AVIV — Israel on Monday night carried out retaliatory strikes against Hamas positions in the Gaza Strip after a projectile was launched into the Jewish state earlier in the day.
Israel’s submariners were called into action for the outbreak of a simulated war during a surprise drill this week, with the army saying the exercise was intended to transform the oft-ignored undersea force into a more formidable weapon.
Israeli and American air force pilots will participate in a joint exercise this week over the Arava Desert, north of Eilat.
The Syrian Army rejected reports of an Israeli Air Force (IAF) strike on Saturday in the southern Quneitra area near the Israeli border.
The Israeli air force is among four other nations participating in a joint exercise that began yesterday in Greece. The Iniohos 2017 exercise, which is being hosted at Greece’s Andravida Air Base, will be a “complex exercise” according to the Greek Air Force and will include fighter planes from the US, Israel, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Italy and Greece.