How do you see India as a defence market? What are the areas of your immediate, medium and long-term interests across domains?

Rafael considers India as a strategic partner and will continue to move towards indigenous production and development of advanced defence systems. Rafael looks to India for cooperation in the defence industry as a strategic relation. We are fully committed to support ‘Make in India’ initiatives.

As the Indian defence industry matures, we look forward at establishing global manufacturing hubs for supply of systems abroad. For Rafael, exploitation of our R&D intensive and combat proven technology for developing the Indian defence industry, while addressing the urgent operational requirements of the Indian Air Force (IAF), is a win-win situation for all.

As far as systems for land and naval systems, we are offering the Spike Family of electro-optical, precision-guided, tactical missiles launched from the air, ground and sea, Remote-Controlled Weapon Stations for ground and naval applications. We are also offering the Trophy APS Family and our BNET SDR communication.

We are offering and are involved in a wide range of systems and capabilities in air defence systems such as the SPYDER a