Defence collaboration, including potential technology transfer of Iron Dome and interest in Iron Beam, is expected to shape high-level India-Israel talks during Modi’s Tel Aviv visit.
Under a deal signed in 2018 (worth US $5.43 billion), India had placed an order for five S-400 air-defence systems from Russia.
PM Modi, in his Independence Day address, launched Mission Sudarshan Chakra, a state-of-the-art defence system inspired by Lord Krishna and likened to Israel’s Iron Dome.
Two were alleged to have been intercepted by the Iron Dome and the third possibly fell into a field in Israel, without causing harm.
