UK arms companies known to have supplied Israel

Sub-systems/components for F-16 fighter aircraft:

• BAE Systems. Headquarters: 6 Carlton Gardens, London, SW1Y 5AD
  Tel: 01252 373232. Specific location(s) relevant to Israeli F-16s are not known. BAE Systems has numerous locations around the UK (see BAE Systems website), several of which might produce F-16 parts.
• MPE. Hammond Road, Knowsley Industrial Park, Liverpool, L33 7UL
  Tel: 0151 632 9100. MPE website
• Smiths Group. Aerospace headquarters: 765 Finchley Road, London, NW11 8DS
  Tel: 020 8458 3232. Smiths Aerospace website
  Specific location(s) relevant to Israeli F-16s are not known.
  (Note: the bulk of Smiths' military production was sold to General Electric in May 2007)

Components for Merkava tanks:

• Airtechnology Group. 111 Windmill Road, Sunbury on Thames, Middlesex, TW16 7EF
  Tel: 01932 765 822. Airtechnology website

Sub-systems/components for Apache attack helicopters:

• AgustaWestland (exports the 'Jesus nuts' produced by Redmayne Engineering)
  Lysander Road, Yeovil, Somerset BA20 2YB
  Tel: 01935 475222. AgustaWestland website
• Brimar (Helmet-mounted display systems)
  Greenside Way, Middleton, Manchester, M24 1SN
  Tel: 0161 681 7072. Brimar website
• Meggitt Avionics (Air data system)
  7 Whittle Avenue, Fareham, Hampshire PO15 5SH
  Tel: 01489 483300. Meggitt website
• Page Aerospace (Light dimming system)
  Forge Lane, Green Street, Sunbury-on-Thames, Middlesex TW16 6EQ
  Tel: 01932 787661. Page Aerospace website
• Penny + Giles Controls (Rotary variable differential transformers)
  36 Nine Mile Point Ind. Est., Cwmfelinfach, Gwent NP11 7HZ
  Tel: 01495 202000. Penny + Giles Controls website
• Redmayne Engineering ('Jesus nut')
  Station Approach, Brockenhurst, Hampshire SO42 7TW
  Tel: 01590 623153. Redmayne Engineering website
• Senior Aerospace Baxter Woodhouse & Taylor (Air ducting)
  Adlington Park, Adlington, Macclesfield, Cheshire SK10 4NL
  Tel: 01625 870700. Senior Aerospace website
• Smiths Group (Electrical power management systems)
  Bishops Cleeve, Cheltenham, GL52 8SF
  Tel: 01242 673333. Smiths Aerospace website
  (Note: the bulk of Smiths' military production was sold to General Electric in May 2007)
• SPS Aerostructures (Engine air intakes)
  Willow Drive, Sherwood Business Park, Annesley, Nottinghamshire NG15 ODP
  Tel: 0115 998 0000. SPS Aerostructures website

Main sources: The Guardian 29.7.06; Airforces Monthly, June 2004; The Guardian 9.7.02

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last updated: 9th November 2006