Israel Will Buy 6 Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey Aircraft, US Defense Secretary C.Hagel Announces.

Hagel made the announcement during his keynote address at the 100th annual Anti-Defamation League meeting in New York.

“Israel will get six V-22s out of the next order to go on the assembly line, and they will be compatible with other [Israeli defense force] capabilities,” he said. “The Israeli and American defense relationship is stronger than ever.”

With Afghanistan -- the second of America’s two longest wars -- winding down, Hagel said, “we continue to face a complicated and volatile world. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the Middle East, where the United States and our allies are facing an unprecedented set of complex challenges.”