     'Israel's inability to win battles with popular resistance groups has led to new US arms shipments. After the 2006 Israeli war on Lebanon, the Hebrew state launched a five-year military improvement plan. Costing $60 billion, the "Tefen 2012" project will modernise and replenish existing Israeli army stocks with hundreds of Stryker combat vehicles, squadrons of new F-35 Join Strike Fighters, several Littoral Combat warships, as well as more missiles and Merkava tanks' parent page (14 - 20 August 2008, issue #910) |