The United Arab Emirates and Israel have established a fund to jointly acquire and develop new weapons systems, according to one current and one former U.S. official briefed on the matter. The fund represents a further deepening of defense ties between the two countries during the ongoing U.S.-Israeli war on Iran.
The current U.S. official told Middle East Eye that the two countries would pursue “joint acquisitions” of weapons systems as part of the new defense partnership, and that the UAE could fund technological developments in Israeli air defense systems [5]. The agreement was cemented when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the UAE during the war, the official said [5].
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