ISRAELI COMMANDER OF AIR AND SPACE FORCES MEETS CHIEF OF THE AIR STAF

New Delhi

Major General Amir Eshel, Commander of Israeli Air & Space forces called on Chief of the Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha at Air Headquarters, today. 

India-Israel relations have grown steadily.  In the recent years, India-Israel defence co-operation has grown into multifaceted defence level exchanges in diverse areas of defence  co-operation.  On its part, Israel views India as a strategic ally and has  displayed  willingness to co-operate on all fronts.  The Indo-Israel defence   relations comprise mainly of purchase of military equipment, MoD level dialogue, technology collaboration and service to service defence co-operation through service level staff talks.

India-Israel defence co-operation has improved rapidly in the last  few years with Israel providing state-of-the-art military hardware to India at reasonable cost.  Israelis  have been at the cutting-edge of R&D in advanced technologies in a wide  range of fields such as telecom, software, biotechnology, medical, electronics, agriculture and defence.  Israel undertakes joint industrial R&D projects with several advanced countries including India.