Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has signed a deal to supply the Royal Thai Air Force with its Barak MX surface-to-air system, which will for the first time give Thailand a medium-range layer to guard major air bases and national airspace, in a contract reportedly worth about 3.44 billion baht (roughly $107 million).\u00a0<\/p>\n
The agreement, announced on Thursday in Jerusalem and Bangkok,\u00a0highlights\u00a0Bangkok\u2019s push to upgrade its nationwide air-defense\u00a0architecture as\u00a0neighboring\u00a0states field more missiles and armed drones in Southeast Asia.\u00a0<\/p>\n
IAI will deliver a Barak MX battery intended to intercept drones, combat\u00a0aircraft, cruise\u00a0weapons\u00a0and short-range ballistic missiles at distances of up to about\u00a0150 km, adding a new medium-to-high-altitude tier above Thailand\u2019s existing short-range\u00a0defenses.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Thailand\u2019s air force selected the Israeli system after reviewing competing proposals as part of a broader Integrated Air\u00a0Defense\u00a0System upgrade meant to improve protection for bases and other critical facilities.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The contract further knits together long-standing\u00a0defense\u00a0cooperation between Israel and Thailand, with IAI working alongside Thai Aviation Industries on in-country maintenance and support.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
For Israel, the deal broadens the export reach of its missile-defense\u00a0technology in Asia at a time when demand for systems capable of countering drones and advanced missiles is growing worldwide.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has signed a deal to supply the Royal Thai Air Force with its Barak…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-170007","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}