The Israeli navy needs more ships
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How not to treat a navy. Give it things, just not the ones it actually needs. The Israeli Navy plans to buy new Super Dvora Mk-III fast patrol craft, for counter-terror and interdiction missions in coastal waters along its northern border with Lebanon.
Built by the Ramta division of state-owned Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd. (IAI), the Mk-III craft will join at least six Mk-III boats purchased in late 2004 and deployed primarily in Israel’s southern Mediterranean waters near the Gaza Strip. Once inducted into the Israeli Navy inventory, the newer-model patrol craft will replace or supplement Mk-I and Mk-II patrol craft now deployed in Israel’s northern theater.
According to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) website the procurement is one of the efficiency measures undertaken by the Israeli Navy through the retirement of older Sa’ar 4 warships in exchange for smaller and more operationally cost-effective patrol craft.
These are empty words because the Israeli navy has been asking for budgets to buy more missile corvettes similar to the Saar-5 it operates. But in Israel the navy is almost last in line for the procurement budgets. Without the help of Germany the navy would not have even received new Dolphin class submarines.
