Welcome to CAAT’s interactive map of UK companies recently involved in arming Israel, including those manufacturing components for the F35 combat aircraft.
15% of every F35 that Israel is using to bombard Gaza is made by British industry. CAAT estimates the value of the components UK industry supplies for Israeli F35s to be worth at least £360m since 2016.
In addition, many other companies have received export licences to Israel in the past few years, for other types of military equipment.
The information shown on this map, about the companies arming Israel, has been obtained through Freedom of Information (FOI) requests submitted by CAAT and others. See also the FAQs about this map and the information on it, and our recent briefing on UK arms sales to Israel.
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For more information on UK arms supplies to Israel, the Israeli arms industry, and Israel’s ongoing occupation and repression of the Palestinians, see our main Israel country page.
Explore details of other export licences (apart from the F-35 components) issued by the current government for arms sales to Israel, since 2015, from our UK export licences browser. This includes information on the companies holding each licence for most licences since October 2021.
Find more information about some of the companies listed on the map on our Companies Browser.
Most exports for UK-made components for the F-35, whether to the US which makes the complete planes, or to other partner or customer countries (including Israel), are covered by an Open General Export Licence (OGEL), which allows companies registered for the licence to export unlimited quantities of equipment to the relevant countries, so long as it is for the F-35, without need for individual licences. Thus, most F-35 exports do not need an individual licence, and are not covered by the export licences browser. The map displays all companies in the UK that are registered for this OGEL. These companies are shown by red pins on the map.
The companies holding other export licences to Israel, which are also included in the export licences browser, are shown by blue pins on the map.
Companies which are registered for the F-35 OGEL and which have received other export licences to Israel, are shown by blue and red striped pins on the map.
For more information read the FAQs about this map.
NB: While it is likely that the great majority of exports for the F-35 are conducted using this OGEL, there may be other companies that are involved but are not registered for the OGEL, instead applying for Single or Open Individual Export Licences (SIELs or OIELs) as needed. We know that there have been other export licences for F-35 components for which Israel was an authorised destination, though these may have been indirect licences via the United States or another country.
It is also not necessarily the case that all companies that are registered for the OGEL are currently producing and exporting components for the F-35, and at least one company, Strain Measurement Devices, claims to have stopped in 2021. However, the fact that a company registered for the OGEL clearly implies that, at the time they had an expectation of conducting regular exports for the F-35.
Some of the other export licences to Israel held by the companies shown on this map are no longer extant. Others will have been suspended as part of the government’s decision on 2 September to suspend certain export licences to Israel for use in Gaza. The companies shown on this map have nonetheless received export licences to Israel at least since October 2021.
