The Ministry of Defense states that it has launched a process to suspend the License of Israeli technology to manufacture in Spain 168 missile systems against Spike LR2 car destined to equip the Army.
As the SER chain has advanced and has confirmed eldiario.es, the Ministry indicates that it has initiated this process with the objective of revoking the technological license. Asked if the purchase contract is also going to revoke, signed with an Israeli subsidiary, sources from the Spanish Ministry of Defense specify to this medium that the revocation will affect the license.
The purchase contract was awarded on November 23, 2023 to Pap Tecnos, a subsidiary of the Israeli state company Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, for a value of around 285 million euros, and contemplates an execution period of 55 months, that is, until June 2026. The object of said contract is the “supply of 168 missile systems against car Spike LR2”. The Israeli media The Marker, specialized in economics, businesses and technology, informs this afternoon that, so far, the state arms company Rafael claims to have no “proof of any cancellation of the agreement”.
Until now, the Government had defended this award, stating that it was “non -substitutable” material. Defense sources consulted by this newspaper also indicate that a process is activated to revoke the license awarded to the Israeli Elbit for the acquisition of the Silam Lanzacohetes system.
During 2024, and in the back months, Defense argued that the obsolescence of the systems used so far forced them to replace them with more modern ones, such as those that are already in service in many of the armies of the allied countries, and that the Israeli company was the only technically trained for the development of these fifth generation missiles.
The revocation process can take time, they still have no substitute winner and both projects – the Spike missiles and Silam launches – continue their course. Minister Pilar Alegría said Tuesday that “the process of revocation of the technological license has been initiated”, which is now looking for how to reorient the program “and” the effects of this measure announced are being studied.
The Ministry states that this is part of the “progressive disconnection process” of the Israeli arms industry, announced by the Secretary of State for Defense last Friday. However, for now, other purchase contracts are maintained, such as the one closed in April 2024 with the state -owned public company Rafael, scheduled until 2027, for the acquisition of the design of POD Designers for air combat, which Eldiario.es reported Monday.
The Silam Lanfacohetes contracts as for the Spike are two of the nine purchase agreements awarded but not yet formalized to Israeli or filial companies after October 7, 2023. Since then, until April 2025, the Spanish government awarded or formalized 46 purchase contracts with Israeli companies, its subsidiaries or mediators.
To date, the Government of Spain has announced the revocation of one of those 46 contracts, the one referring to the Israeli bullets, of which the Interior Ministry announced, in October 2024, that it would study initiating a process for revocation. Despite this announcement, that purchase was finally formalized and signed on April 18, 2025. When this confirmation of the purchase was detected and published in the media, interior backward and said that he would cancel the contract.
Source: www.eldiario.es
