[IAI] - The Plug-In Optronic Payload 300 - Long Range (POP-300LR Observer), produced by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), has been selected by a European customer for use in a costal surveillance program. The POP-300LR will be integrated with radar and will provide the customer with 24/7, all weather long range observation and surveillance capabilities.

Steven Green, [Antiwar.com] - On May 9, Israel announced to the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations in New York that it would release a set of maps showing where cluster munitions had been dropped by the Israeli Defense Forces during the IDF military incursions into South Lebanon in July-August of 2006.

[Globes] - Defense electronics developer Elbit Systems Ltd. (Nasdaq: ESLT; TASE: ESLT) US subsidiary Elbit Systems of America was awarded a contract from the US Army to develop, produce, and integrate mortar fire control systems.

The Electronic Intifada - Contrary to the heavily-hyped image according to which the policy output of Finland is even-handed and neutral in the Israel/Palestine conflict, Finland is actually a major arms trading partner with Israel. Recent reports by the Committee of 100 in Finland, Amnesty International, as well as an article in Finland's biggest newspaper, Helsingin Sanomat, all revealed Finland's deeply troubling attitude towards the actions of the State of Israel.