Romania has signed a framework agreement to buy Israeli-made short-range and very short-range anti-aircraft systems for more than 2 billion euros ($2.3 billion), the Romanian defense ministry says.
Under pressure from US President Donald Trump, Romania and other European countries have been looking to increase their defense spending since Russia’s full-scale invasion of neighboring Ukraine in 2022.
The European Union and NATO member state, which shares a 650-kilometer (400-mile) border with Ukraine, has had Russian drone fragments fall onto its territory repeatedly over the past two years as Moscow attacks Ukrainian port infrastructure.
The framework agreement with the Israeli company Rafael Advanced Defense Systems – maker of Israel’s Iron Dome defense system among several others – provides for the signing of three further contracts, through which six integrated anti-aircraft systems will be acquired.
The contracts will also cover training, ammunition and logistical support.
The framework agreement will run for seven years, with the first two very short-range systems to be delivered within three years of the signing of the first of the three further contracts, the ministry says.
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