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Presumably, this Israeli-made and designed unmanned drone will help Chile become a more civilized, law-abiding country, with safer, more secure borders…

It should also keep illegal drugs from flowing into or out of Chile and other neighboring countries…

Israeli Elbit Hermes 900 UAV

I can only hope that Chile will not be one of a rapidly growing group of South American countries planning to support the unilateral declaration of an illegal palestinian state by Fatah on Israel’s land come September…
What ever happened to old-fashioned gratitude, even if your moral compass happens to be askew????

Chile Becomes First Foreign Country to Buy Elbit’s New UAV

Reprinted from israelidiamond.co.il

Chile has become the first foreign country to buy the new Hermes 900 UAV from Elbit Systems. The amount of the deal has not been published, but is estimated to be worth tens of millions of dollars. In addition, Elbit will supply ground control stations and payload systems. According to sources in the industry, Chile will deploy the Hermes 900 UAV for reconnaissance missions along its coast, which will save money. The IAF is testing the Hermes 900, and the model is expected to be cleared as operational within a few months.

So Swedish and Norwegian pension funds are just SO moral, SO ethical, that they have decided that they must not taint their hands nor their investment portfolios with investments in a company that builds and installs surveillance systems designed to stop terrorists from killing innocent civilians…REALLY, now!!!…Elbit builds drones and other monitoring gear designed to detect terrorists attempting to cross Israel’s security barrier…an event known to occur pretty much on a daily basis on the border between Israeli and palestinian controlled areas. What is immoral or unethical about PREVENTING terror?
Please feel free to open your humble servant’s eyes on this one…

An Elbit Systems technician pilots a Universal Ground Control Station (UGCS) to operate drones

Swedish pension giant shuns Israeli arms maker


The biggest Swedish pension fund said Monday it had barred Israeli arms maker Elbit Systems from its investment portfolios on ethical grounds.

Reprinted from AFP/Google News

Following the lead of Norway’s state oil fund, Foersta AP-Fonden said it had banned investment in Elbit because it had built and was operating a surveillance system for a controversial barrier between Israel and the West Bank.

“The Ethical Council recommended that Elbit Systems Ltd should be excluded from each portfolio because it deems that the company can be linked to violations of fundamental conventions and norms,” it said in a statement.

Israel says the barrier — a network of walls, fences and closed military roads — is designed to prevent attacks. The Palestinians view it as an “apartheid wall” that carves off key parts of their future state.

Israel has so far completed 413 kilometres (256 miles) of the planned 709-kilometre (435-mile) barrier, according to UN figures.

When completed, 85 percent of the wall will have been built inside the West Bank, taking land from villages like Bilin and Nilin.

The international community has condemned Israel’s decision to construct the barrier.

The Swedish fund, which only had small investments in Elbit according to its ethics council chairwoman Annika Andersson, said that Grupo Ferrovial, PetroChina, Thales and Yahoo had successfully addressed its concerns about ethics violations.

Last September, Norway’s state pension fund, one of the world’s biggest investors, also banned Elbit from its portfolio, prompting the Israeli foreign ministry to summon Norway’s ambassador in protest at the move.