Activists just smashed up the site of another F-35 part supplier enabling Israel’s genocide

Early on Friday 26 September, activists targeted the Glasgow site of Walker Precision Engineering: smashing its windows and coating its interior with paint.

Walker Precision Engineering holds contracts with Israel-arming multinational arms manufacturers Leonardo and Thales, as well as BAE Systems.

Precision Engineering: activists target supplier to arms manufacturers

Walker Precision Engineering are also a member of Scotland’s military-industry lobbying body ADS Scotland. ADS Scotland has met 52 times with Holyrood MSPs since October 2023. It has pressured the Scottish and UK governments for increasing state powers to surveil and criminalise anti-genocide and anti-Zionist protestors.

Leonardo is a key UK contributor to the F-35 fighter jet construction. The UK industry supplies 15% of their total components. Crucially, the UK government has made these components exempt from its Israeli ‘arms embargo’. This has left 91% of all UK to Israel military exports intact.

Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) has described F-35s as:

the UK’s most significant arms supplies to the Israeli military.

Israel has used them to drop the 2000 pound bombs which have flattened Gaza, and murdered up to 680,000 Palestinians (as of September 2025). Leonardo’s production facility in Edinburgh is the supplier of the F-35’s laser targetting system.

The supply chain of Israel’s genocide

Thales is a French arms manufacturer with facilities in Glasgow. Thales produce the UK ‘Watchkeeper’ drone, through a joint venture with Israeli arms company Elbit Systems. It’s based on Elbit’s Hermes 450, which Israel has used extensively to attack Gaza.

In 2017, Walker Precision Engineering purchased a Basildon-based military assembly centre from Leonardo. It owns this through its subsidiary ‘Walker Guidance Systems’, who supply “critical airborne and guidance products” to Leonardo. In 2023 Leonardo spent £16m on supplies from the Basildon site. In 2017, Walker Precision Engineering also secured £4m of investment from the Business Growth Fund (BGP) to expand the Carmyle site’s supply networks with Thales.

The activists’ statement read:

We have targeted Walker Precision Engineering for its complicity in the genocide of Gaza, that Israel has been charged with by South Africa and 11 other countries in the International Court of Justice. We won’t rest whilst efforts to annihilate Palestine are being knowingly enabled by companies on our doorstep. Every business that is part of this supply chain, including Walker Precision Engineering, shares responsibility for, and profits from, this genocide. By carrying out this action, we are directly responding to calls from Palestine to stop the flow of arms and technology from Scotland to Israel. Walker Precision Engineering has blood on its hands and will remain a target until it ceases all business with Leonardo and Thales.

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