To make this website work, we log user data. By using Shephard's online services, you agree to our Privacy Policy, including cookie policy.

×
Open menu Search

Loitering munition finds in Libya highlight export control gaps

24th April 2020 - 15:00 GMT | by Arie Egozi, Michal Jarocki in Tel Aviv & Warsaw

RSS

Israel may have to tighten its defence equipment export controls, after evidence emerged that Turkey has provided one of the sides in the Libyan civil war with the Harop loitering munition system.

In images posted on Twitter on 6 April, the Libyan National Army claimed to have found wreckage of a Harop near Hamada in the northwest of the country.

Meanwhile, images of the dismantled fuselage of a Warmate in Libya appeared on social media in mid-April, as clear evidence that the Polish loitering munition system is being used in the war-torn North African country.

Turkey had purchased Harop

Already have an account? Log in

Want to keep reading this article?

Arie Egozi

Author

Arie Egozi


Born in Israel, Arie Egozi served in the IDF and holds a political science and …

Read full bio
Michal Jarocki

Author

Michal Jarocki


Michal Jarocki is a Shephard correspondent based in Warsaw, Poland. He is reporting on military …

Read full bio

Share to

Linkedin