Stealth F-35 Lightning II fighter jets fly over the White House as President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump attend the military families’ picnic on the South Lawn, July 4, 2025. (Credit: Brendan Smialowski/AFP.)
The United States has allocated $1.5 billion to upgrade Israeli military bases, according to Haaretz. The U.S. funded projects, led by the Army Corps of Engineers, will help prepare for new American aircrafts arriving under recent arms deals.A conference for subcontractors, initially planned for June, was postponed due to the Iran-Israel war. It covered contracts worth $250 million, while the rest of the planned projects would exceed $1 billion. Comprehensive tenders running to several hundred pages and communications from the Israeli military have made it possible to identify some of the bases concerned.Investments for the air forceThe most strategic projects concern the air force directly, due to the upcoming arrival of new military aircrafts provided by Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Sikorsky. The Israeli military is expected to receive...
The United States has allocated $1.5 billion to upgrade Israeli military bases, according to Haaretz. The U.S. funded projects, led by the Army Corps of Engineers, will help prepare for new American aircrafts arriving under recent arms deals.A conference for subcontractors, initially planned for June, was postponed due to the Iran-Israel war. It covered contracts worth $250 million, while the rest of the planned projects would exceed $1 billion. Comprehensive tenders running to several hundred pages and communications from the Israeli military have made it possible to identify some of the bases concerned.Investments for the air forceThe most strategic projects concern the air force directly, due to the upcoming arrival of new military aircrafts provided by Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Sikorsky. The Israeli military is expected to...
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