Israeli Security Establishment Assesses F-22A May be Offered to Israel
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Aug. 4th, 2006 || Source:
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The United States may supply Israel with the most advanced stealth fighter jet in the world - the
F22 Raptor - considering the war in Lebanon and the Iranian threat, the Israeli security establishment has assessed.
The US has not yet exported the F22 to any of its allies. Recently, however, the House of Representatives lifted its nine year ban on the sale of the advanced jet outside the United States. No real contacts have yet been made on the matter, but the lifting of the ban on its sale has paved the way for such a deal.
US officials have apparently hinted to Israel lately that as part of American efforts in the international war on the “axis of evil,” the US would offer Israel to buy the stealth fighter.
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