" Govt-Owned Munitions India Ltd Exported Ordnance to Israel as Gaza Was Reduced to Rubble ", 7 May 2024

In a recent report, The Wire established that the Hyderabad-based Adani-Elbit Advanced Systems India Ltd. – a joint venture company between Adani Defence and Aerospace and Israel’s Elbit Systems – had exported munitions in the form of Indian-made aero-structures and subsystems purposed specifically for military use for over 20 Hermes 900 UAVs/drones, if not complete drones, to Israel between 2019 and 2023.

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Publicly available records now indicate that Munitions India Ltd (MIL) – a public sector enterprise under the Ministry of Defence – has also been permitted to ship its products to Israel as recently as January 2024. On April 18, 2024, the company has again applied for exporting the same products under a repeat order from Israel. Approval for the company’s second export to Israel is under consideration by the licensing authorities.

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Similarly, a private Indian company, Premier Explosives Ltd. (PEL), which has been exporting explosives and allied accessories to Israel under SCOMET licence from the DGFT at least since 2021, has been permitted to export these items twice since Israel’s war on Gaza began last year – on November 20, 2023, and January 01, 2024.

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The Wire contacted both MIL and PEL by email to get information about the nature of products exported by them to Israel. While no response has been received from MIL, PEL responded thus: “Required information to the extent possible is already in public domain as we have been transparent and made disclosures to the stock exchanges. Due to the sensitivity of the nature of products and also level of competition, we are unable to share further information.”