People Against Genocide target Tring factory of key Elbit supplier Ultra I&C

Early on 9 July, 3 action-takers from People Against Genocide successfully evaded security to enter the Tring facility of military tech and cyber warfare company Ultra Intelligence & Communications (Ultra I&C) in Tring, Hertfordshire.

Once inside the building, the PAG team began dismantling military equipment, to close the facility down, and stop production.

Ultra I&C is a key supplier to UAV Tactical Systems, the Leicester subsidiary of Elbit Systems, Israel’s biggest weapons maker. Elbit produces 85% of the Israeli military’s killer drone fleet, and 80% of their other weaponry and equipment. Elbit boasts that its deadly products are “battle-tested” on Palestinians. And they have been used against civilian populations across West Asia.

Ultra I&C claims to specialise in “AI mission solutions” and “secure battlefield communications systems”. And in a major step, in October 2024, it entered into a collaboration agreement with the US arm of South-Korean weapons giant Hanwha. The collaboration focuses on integrating Ultra I&C’s Command and Control (C2) gateway with Hanwha’s missile systems, specifically the K239 Chunmoo rocket launcher.

Job listings for Ultra I&C’s Tring site, clearly show that it’s a manufacturing facility, making and developing physical products. A data breach in 2024 confirmed that besides working with Elbit, Ultra I&C works with the Israeli military directly.

People Against Genocide has previously targeted Ultra I&C, blockading its Maidenhead site in June. In that action, activists used specially-modified suitcases containing lock-on devices to successfully prevent access to the facility.

In a statement released by the direct action group, a spokesperson said:

We are taking direct action against Ultra I&C’s Tring facility today to prevent the production of more deadly weapons systems, which are being used to enable the genocide in Gaza.

Rather than attempt to appeal to governments, we are going straight to the source, the weapons factories, to shut them down.

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Comments 1

Airlane says:

7 minutes ago

These are extremely courageous people risking their futures to attack the means of production of genocide. Our Labour government’s National Security (State Threats) Bill became law on 8th July to be one of the most far-reaching attacks on democratic rights and press freedom in modern British history. ‘People Against Genocide’ will doubtless soon be proscribed as was Palestine Action, leading to arrests, trials and long prison terms for its action-takers.

Those still enamoured of the Green Party should note that “while the Green Party opposed specific sections of the Bill, asking during the single June debate if a proposed new section would “limit access to justice, or prevent challenges through the courts to future decisions made under human rights principles,” they tabled no amendments seeking to reject the Bill outright. Four of the party’s five MPs voted in favour of the main Lords amendment, which allowed the entire draconian Bill to be enacted as law; the fifth, recently elected Hannah Spencer, did not record a vote.” (WSWS) Give it up, Green members. You’re in a party of the ruling class cosplaying as its opponents.

“The Bill expands a battery of existing repressive legislation, primarily the National Security Act 2023, and operates in tandem with the Crime and Policing Act 2026; it incorporates the draconian Section 12 provisions of the Terrorism Act 2000 already wielded against journalists and demonstrators.

Large parts of the Crime and Policing Act came into force on June 29, and the list of protest actions now criminalised is staggering. Climbing on any of two dozen specified memorials can now bring three months in jail under the Act’s new Schedule 17 offence. Protesting outside the home of any elected official or candidate now attracts up to six months’ imprisonment.

Separately, under the National Security Act 2023, many sites across the country are designated “prohibited places,” where unauthorised entry, approach, or even photography can carry a six-month sentence—rising to 14 years if prosecutors allege a purpose prejudicial to the “safety or interests of the United Kingdom.””

(‘UK Labour government rams through authoritarian National Security Bill’, World Socialist Web Site 10 July 2026)