The mayor of Berlin, Germany (Kai Wegner) now allows IAI (Israel Aerospace Industries), Israel's biggest aerospace company, to build their drones of type Heron TP in Berlin.
The drones of type Heron TP are those that fly over Gaza and sound like a lawnmower—that constant, omnipresent roaring that you often hear in videos of Palestinians.
Germany buys these drones from Israel/IAI. Germany doesn't just export weapons to Israel, Germany also imports weapons from Israel.
The two biggest German customers of IAI are:
- Airbus Defence, stationed in Bremen, Germany
- the German army (Bundeswehr)
Airbus operates the drones for Frontex in the Mediterranean Sea.
The German army uses these drones in Afghanistan and to defend the Baltic Sea from Russian aggression, among other use cases.
Thus far, IAI manufactures these drones in Israel and ships them to Germany. The mayor of Berlin just signed off the construction of a so-called "IAI-Berlin Aerospace & Defense Innovation Center" in Berlin-Adlershof. Israelis will now build their drones in Berlin for Germany (Airbus/Frontex and Bundeswehr).
The mayor of Berlin plans to transform the Adlershof neighborhood of Berlin into an Israeli factory of war machinery.
Source in German:
https://www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1200372.vereinbarung-mit-kai-wegner-israels-staatlicher-ruestungskonzern-soll-in-berlin-produzieren.html
