Israel to Buy Four Aerial Refuelling Planes from the US for over $927m

Israel will buy 4 Boeing KC-46A refuelers for its air pressure, in a deal valued at $927.5 million, the Israeli authorities and a US protection contractor introduced on Thursday.

First deliveries of the plane, which can change Israel’s ageing fleet of Re’em Boeing 707 tankers, are anticipated to roll out in 2025.

“This contract additional strengthens the US-Israel alliance and continues the decades-long relationship between Boeing and the Israeli Air Pressure,” mentioned Ido Nehushtan, President of Boeing Israel.

The US offers Israel cash for weapons. Israel buys weapons from the US. Israel then sells the weapons they do not need. https://t.co/mREvg3IsQ9

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Israeli officers have described the tankers as vital for planning army operations that might doubtlessly embody a long-threatened assault on Iran’s nuclear amenities, the Israeli Ynet Information reported.

The transfer comes after the White Home mentioned in a press release that President Joe Biden knowledgeable Israel Prime Minister, Yair Lapid, throughout a name on Wednesday that the US won’t ever permit Iran to accumulate a nuclear weapon.

(MEMO, PC, SOCIAL)