Israel signed a $3.5 billion deal yesterday to build Greece’s Achilles Shield, an air defense array that will block drones, aircraft and missiles when it becomes operational within three years.

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The deal involves the export of Israel’s advanced David’s Sling, barak mx and Spyder surface-to-air missile systems.

• Israeli defense company Rafael will also build Greece a “new national command-and-control system,” Reuters reports.
• Rafael signed a related $30 million agreement yesterday to give Greece its Drone Dome system.

Achilles Shield is the largest Israeli-Greek defense deal, but it’s not the first. In 2022, Israeli defense company Elbit agreed to build flight schools in Greece as well as sell missiles, drones and rocket launchers in a $1.6 billion deal.

Israel is also equipping other European nations with its advanced technologies.

• In 2023, Israel signed a $4 billion deal, its largest weapons export deal in history, to give Germany its Arrow 3 air defense system.
• In 2023, Israel signed a $370 million deal to supply Finland with its David’s Sling system.

These deals are only made with countries viewed as close allies, since they involve divulging the strengths and vulnerabilities of Israel’s most advanced military technologies.

The Achilles Shield agreement actually exposes Israel’s Achilles’ heel: its reliance on technology, rather than the God of Israel, for protection.