F-35I 구입으로 이스라엘 기업에 돌아가는 대응구매액...

 

이스라엘이 총액 27억5천만불에 20대의 F-35I 를 구입할 예정이라는 소식과,  이로인한 이스라엘 국내 기업이 얻게되는 대응

구매 물량이 약 40억불에 이를 것이라는 소식을 소개한 바 있습니다.

 

그러나 이번 20대 규모로 얻게되는 이스라엘 국내 기업의 대응구매액이 당초 알려진 것 보다는 적을 것이라는 Haaretz 紙의

기사를 소개합니다. 기사에 따르면 당초 알려진 바와는 달리, 대응구매 금액은 20대를 기준으로 할 경우 10억~13억불 정도에

그칠 것이라는 보도입니다. 이스라엘이 향후 F-35I 의 도입물량을 75대 규모로 늘려야 대응구매액이 40억불에 이를 것이라는

내용으로 이해되는 기사입니다.

 

한편 동 기사에서는 이번 1차 구입(예상)물량 20대에 대해서 부품제작에 참여하는 이스라엘 국내 기업도 언급하고 있습니다.

 

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Published 01:19 05.09.10 / Latest update 01:19 05.09.10

'Stealth' bonanza may be smaller than thought

Instead of about $4 billion in work, Israeli companies will be getting between $1 billion and $1.3 billion.

By Ora Coren

 

In mid-August, Defense Minister Ehud Barak confirmed the purchase of 20 futuristic F-35 stealth fighter jets for the Israel Air Force, at a total cost of $2.75 billion. The Defense Ministry also said at the time that Israeli companies would get about $4 billion in work from Lockheed Martin, the jets' maker, as part of the deal. But now it turns out that the accord had been contingent on Israel buying 75 of the jets, and the lesser figure will win Israeli companies a proportionally smaller amount of work.

 

In other words, instead of about $4 billion in work, Israeli companies will be getting between $1 billion and $1.3 billion.

 

The Israeli defense companies are pleased even over the smaller figure, and consider this an opening that could be expanded in the future.

 

The discussion about the F-35 procurement is still taking place, in a ministerial committee headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu himself. The jets would be paid for with U.S. military aid money, not the Israeli budget. But Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz has objected to any such deal, on the grounds that this is a huge cost at a time when the world is moving on to aerial warfare using unmanned planes.

 

Defense circles are confident Israel will purchase the jets nonetheless, and feel the question is only over how many planes the government will approve: 75 or 20.

 

Among the companies expected to get work are Elbit Systems, which among other things makes smart helmets for pilots; Israel Aerospace Industries, which would make the jets' wings; and Blades Technology, which would be involved in making the engines. Blades is owned by the Wertheimer family and Pratt & Whitney. The Israeli companies involved would need to invest millions of dollars in equipment, and thus expect the alliance would continue beyond the stealth jet project.

 

(Haaretz.com)

 

 

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