New US military aid package may significantly boost IDF strength
Israel Hayom | New US military aid package may significantly boost IDF strength.
Enhanced aid package includes satellite intelligence, air refueling tankers and surplus from Iraq • It comes in addition to $3 billion in annual aid from the U.S. • Package already approved by House, pending approval by Senate.
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Israel will receive $680 million in U.S. aid to fund the Iron Dome rocket defense system.
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Photo credit: Dudu Grunshpan
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The U.S. Senate is considering granting Israel an enhanced aid package, the defense programs, policy, business and technology magazine Defense News reported this week.
According to the report, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is reviewing the U.S.–Israel Enhanced Security Cooperation Act of 2012, already approved by the House of Representatives.
The magazine quoted one Senate aide as saying that the bill was expected to pass “by a lopsided margin or even a unanimous vote” in the Senate.
The aid package comes in addition to the $3 billion in annual aid and the recently added $680 million in multiyear funding for Israel’s Iron Dome rocket defense system.
The enhanced aid package reportedly includes satellite intelligence, air refueling tankers (on lease or loan), “specialized munitions,” and surplus from Iraq, among other things.
The bill further authorizes “Israel’s expanded use of grant military aid to be applied more broadly for commercial rather than foreign military sales,” and extends U.S. government-backed loan guarantees to Israel through 2015
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