The Indian defence ministry is expected to purchase from Israel defence technology worth hundreds of millions of shekels after a tunnel was discovered along the Indian-Pakistani border. Owing to India’s lack of experience with the tunnel terror threat, the Indian government immediately asked for advanced Israeli technologies. “It is exactly what we need,” says a report published in JerusalemOnline.
Three months ago, Indian forces discovered a tunnel on their side of the border with Pakistan. The tunnel that had a depth of 10 meters showed that it led to a hiding place in Pakistan and was dug with the intent of being used to carry out attacks within the country. Following this development, India signed a deal with Israel for weapons and defence technology worth hundreds of millions of shekels.
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After the discovery of the tunnel, the Indian authorities realised that they had no means to deal with the tunnel threat and that they needed to appraise their defences based off this new threat.
India, who strengthened ties with Israel last year, turned to the Israeli defence industry. They are expected to acquire Israeli systems to be utilised together with the construction of an advanced security barrier to be constructed along the border with Pakistan.
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Indian Home Affairs Minister Shri Rajnath Singh recently visited Israel and was shown a long list of radar systems, censors for identifying underground traffic, observation systems, UAVs, and censors to locate tunnels. The Indian minister was also taken to the Gazan border, where he saw all of the operations of these systems in real time. “It is exactly what we need,” he stated after the tour.
In the coming months, Israeli experts will come to the Indian-Pakistani border in order to deploy the systems and to start training the Indian forces how to operate them. (Monitoring Report)
