Dear friends, 

With the Moog 4 trial having started last week, now is a vital time to put pressure on our government for some answers around Moog’s involvement in training genocide pilots. Moog, an American weapons corporation with more than a dozen sites across the UK, produces components for the F-35 “genocide jet”. Moog also produces components for the M-346 Lavi trainer aircraft, which is the final stage of training aircraft used by Israeli forces before flying the deadly F-16s and F-35s. 

In April 2026 it was revealed that Belgian authorities seized a shipment of military goods exported from the UK, which were in transit to Israel. Although Belgian authorities have refused to name the arms company involved, the Belgium government confirmed that the initial complaint focused on Moog. 

Activist-submitted FOIs show that the Department of Business and Trade (DBT) and the Export Control Joint Unit (ECJU) did not review, suspend, amend nor revoke any relevant export licences following the seizure of the military goods in Belgium. How can the UK’s export licensing system seemingly not take into account the export control regulations of the countries its exports are moving through? 

Criterion 7 of the UK's Strategic Export Licensing Criteria (SELC) states that export licence approvals must take into account the risk that exports will be diverted to an “undesirable end-user”. Given the lack of investigation from the DBT following the seizure of the UK exports in Belgium, how can we trust that any investigation is being done to ensure there is no diversion of exports from the UK to “undesirable end-users”? 

Furthermore, how can we trust that investigation is being conducted to ensure military goods approved for export licences to Israel that are supposed to be re-exported to another country are indeed re-exported? Will the £8.7 million Open Individual Export Licence (OIEL) issued to Israel in Q4 of 2025 for military “components and technology for targeting equipment” truly be re-exported as the DBT is arguing? Or will this targeting equipment follow the way of the UK-produced Watchkeeper drone components, which were supposed to be sent onto Romania but remained in Israel? 

The UK government chose not to include export licences for trainer aircrafts in its September 2024 partial export licence suspension, arguing that they are not used in military combat. Yet an internal Foreign Office briefing obtained by Declassified from October 2025 acknowledges that the M-346, while not used for combat missions, “facilitates the development of an offensive capability”. 

The UK’s own Strategic Export Licensing Criteria (SELC), section 2C, states that the decision to grant an export licence must consider whether the licence risks committing or facilitating a serious violation of International Humanitarian Law (IHL). How can “facilitating the development of an offensive capability” for a country which has shown no regard for IHL over the past several years of genocide not be in violation of this criterion? 

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