An Enterprise Ireland-backed company is sending drone parts to the Israel Defense Forces' (IDF) largest weapons supplier.
This month InnaLabs sent a 110-kilogramme shipment of dual-use components from its facility in west Dublin to Elbit Systems in Israel, according to documents obtained by The Ditch.
The Insider alleged in March this year that InnaLabs was among the Western drone sensor manufacturers whose dual-use goods appeared in Russian import data, with InnaLabs emphasizing “its full compliance with EU export control laws”.
Russian tech investor Dmitri Simonenko, Innalabs founder and ex-CEO, earlier this year said he sold his shareholding in the Blanchardstown-based defence company because of the war in Ukraine.
A client company
Enterprise Ireland described InnaLabs as one of its “client companies” in an October 2022 press release confirming the company’s participation in a trade mission to the European Space Agency’s Centre for Earth Observation in Italy.
Innalabs was among a handful of Moscow-based companies brought to Dublin by a special Enterprise Ireland fund that targeted the Russian tech industry.
Shipping records obtained and verified by The Ditch show that on 11 July this year, InnaLabs sent Coriolis vibratory gyroscopes weighing 110 kilogrammes from its Dublin 15 base to an Ebit Systems plant in Israel.
Coriolis vibratory gyroscopes are used in unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) and also have non-military applications, according to InnaLabs.
Elbit Systems supplies the Israel Defense Forces with 80 percent of its weapons, according to a recent BDS report.
The Israeli weapons companies is one of the world’s leading military drone manufacturers.
The Ditch reported earlier this month that another Irish government-backed company, Limerick’s Analog Devices, has also been supplying Elbit Systems with dual-use goods.
InnaLabs declined to comment.
