Israel Navy missile ship patrols near Tamar gas field. (photo credit: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM/THE JERUSALEM POST)
Times Of Israel: With high-tech warships, Navy readies to guard gas fields from Hezbollah, Hamas
Four new German-built Sa'ar 6 corvettes due to arrive starting late 2019. Until then, IDF planning to protect strategic maritime assets with existing ships, specialized Iron Dome.
The Israeli Navy is charged with defending the country’s territorial waters, an area that is twice as large as the state itself and is becoming increasingly crowded with highly lucrative natural gas fields and shipping lanes, and it needs help.
For Israel’s enemies these naval sites are “preferred targets,” and both the Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group in Lebanon and — to a lesser extent — Hamas in Gaza have the capabilities to threaten them, a senior Israeli Navy official said Monday, speaking on condition of anonymity.
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Update #1: Israel’s advanced new warships are assembled in Germany (i24 News)
Update #2: German shipyard starts work on state-of-the-art warships for Israel (The Jerusalem Post)
Update #3: Israel preparing for Hezbollah maritime threat on gas rigs with German ships (Ynetnews)
WNU Editor: It would definitely be a huge coup for either Hamas or Hezbollah to hit an Israeli asset like a natural rig in the Mediterranean. Hence the new Israeli warships.
