Today I want to talk a little bit about Israeli Navy.

The little state of Israel has access to three seas. No fence or wall can be put on the water. Therefore, the country is defended from water, mostly, by patrol boats, corvettes, missile boats, submarines.

Israel Navy is the smallest in numbers compared to Army of Air Forces, they are located at bases in Eilat, Ashdod and Haifa. Soon Israeli Navy will put modern "Super Dvora Mk3» - in translation – the “bee” patrol boats into service. This boat has great maneuver abilities at high speeds, armed with machine guns, grenade launchers, depth charges and torpedoes. In the case of aggravation of the situation in the region, boats are supplemented with heavy weapons. The crew members, in addition to the personal weapons have Pyrocartridges against swimmers and divers.

The boats are designed and manufactured here in Israel. Do you know where at some stage these ships will be built? In a desert. Why not, if you are able to grow and export sturgeon caviar, year-round grow fruits and vegetables and rationally use every meter of valuable land.

Also next year Israeli army will take in to service of four third generation Protector unmanned surface vehicles. This robot - also developed by local company Oregon Iron Works and "Rafael" the group. Interestingly, "Raphael" State Concern - continuously holds competitions among students of technical colleges, attracting them to work. Career in "Raphael" can start for the students of the second year, where military group will pay tuition fee for the students it recruits.

Ukraine has two seas, a large number of rivers, a huge number of specialists in the shipbuilding industry and high technologies. Ukrainian "Oboronprom" has the potential of not less than the Israeli military group, the Ukrainian Navy can and must be as effective as Israeli. The difference between us is that in Israel, unlike Ukraine, government agencies, the education system and the defense industry are smoothly running in providing of experts and systems to protect themselves, and others. Now large-scale international exercise - "Sea Breeze 2016" is taking place in Odessa, four thousand troops from 16 countries and 25 warships take part in it. Looking at such a scale, I see, that our country has a huge potential and it is important to implement it in the right way.