Automotive Industries Ltd.

This article is about an Israeli automaker. For the trade publication, see Automotive Industries (magazine).

Automotive Industries Ltd. (Hebrew: תעשיות רכב נצרת עלית, תע"ר, Ta'asiyot Rekhev Natzrat Ilit, AIL) is an Israeli automaker and major supplier of the Israeli Security Forces.

Automotive Industries Ltd.

Industry	Automotive
Founded	1966; 59 years ago (1966)
Headquarters	Nof HaGalil , Israel
Products	Tactical vehicles, Armored vehicles
Website	ail.co.il

History

Located in Nof HaGalil, the company was founded in 1966 by Automotive Equipment Group as a plant for the assembly of cars and trucks. AIL has since increased its role in the vehicle manufacture, doing much of the work on several early Willys MB-derivatives, and the more recent M462 trucks and AIL Storm (Sufa) series of Jeep Wrangler derivatives, and the AIL Desert Raider.

AIL was also an assembly-point for the Israel Defense Forces of Humvees, but U.S. foreign aid guarantees caused contracts to be moved to plants in the United States. AIL has developed the Storm III which began production in August 2008.

Models

Tactical vehicles

AIL M325 and M462 ABIR

Storm III

• Military Light Tactical Vehicle, based on the Jeep J8, jointly developed with Sanyang Industrial of Taiwan, entered service in 2015.

Current production

• AIL Storm (1987–present)
  • AIL Storm III – the current version^[1]
• HMMWV (assembly)
• AIL Desert Raider – (1998–present)

Former production

• Willys MB (assembly) (1966–1983)
• AIL Abir (1966–1987)^[2]
  • AIL Abir II – a militarized Ram truck^[3]
• AIL M325 Command Car (1970–1993)

Armored vehicles

• Antelope – light multipurpose armored vehicle mounted on a RAM 550 truck chassis^[4]
• Avner – an armored AIL built body mounted on a RAM 550 truck chassis.^[5]

Projects

• AMSTAF – developed in conjunction with Automotive Robotic Industry Ltd. (ARI). The AMSTAF is an ARGO 6×6 based remote-controlled light armored vehicle.^[6][7]

References

1. "Commander". Archived from the original on 2014-07-31. Retrieved 2014-06-19.
2. "4X4 LIGHT TACTICAL TRUCK". ail.co.il. Archived from the original on 2013-09-29. Retrieved 2014-01-21.
3. "ABIR II 4X4 LIGHT TACTICAL TRUCK". ail.co.il. Archived from the original on 2013-09-29. Retrieved 2014-01-21.
4. "Armored". Archived from the original on 2013-09-29. Retrieved 2014-01-21.
5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-09-29. Retrieved 2014-01-21.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
6. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-09-29. Retrieved 2014-01-21.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
7. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-09-29. Retrieved 2014-01-21.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

External links

• AIL Official website Archived 2019-11-26 at the Wayback Machine
• Automotive Industries Ltd. on Global Auto Index
• Automotive Industries Ltd. military products page Archived 2019-11-26 at the Wayback Machine
• civilian products on parent Automotive Equipment & Vehicles
• Desert Raider at Israel Export & International Cooperative Institute