Azerbaijan in talks on purchase of Israeli spy satellites – report
Azerbaijan and Israel are "deep in discussion" on the sale of Israeli military spy satellites, an Israeli website reported quoting Western intelligence sources.
Debka.com said Azerbaijan's election to a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council brings to the world body for the next two years a government which "has cultivated lively military and economic ties with Israel".
The website’s military sources report that within the next two months, the Azerbaijan army will take delivery of 60 drones of two types, the Orbiter 2M, whose altitude ceiling is 4-6 kilometers and can stay in the air up to 5 hours; and Aerostar, which can go as high as 10 kilometers and stay aloft for 12 hours.
Seventy percent of their components are manufactured in Israel, while thirty percent in the new Azerbaijan factories.
"This collaboration may be just the beginning", debka.com said.
It said that at the end of September, Azerbaijani Minister of Defense Industry Yaver Jamalov talked about building missile-carrying drones. It was the first hint that the two governments had reached terms on joint production of this advanced unmanned aerial craft.
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