WASHINGTON, USA, January 26, 2002: It is coming up to a decade now, Jan. 29, to be precise, since India and Israel established formal diplomatic relations at the ambassadorial level. Since then, this report surprisingly states, Israel has become India’s No. 2 arms supplier (after Russia) and now Jerusalem is planning to sell it Phalcon airborne early-warning systems worth US$1-billion. The news follows reports India has taken delivery of Green Pine radar of the Arrow system, upgraded cannons and unmanned aerial vehicles, useful weapons for guarding the line of control in Kashmir. In the past 10 years, trade between the two has quintupled to US$1 billion a year, mostly in the high-tech agricultural sector.
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