Ran Kochav "RanKo" (Hebrew: "רן כוכב "רנכו; born July 6, 1971) is an Israel Defense Forces brigadier general (Tat-Aluf) who was the IDF Spokesperson, as the commander of the Israeli Air & Missile Defense Forces and as the chief general officer of the Military Police Corps.

He was a deputy commander of the M61 Vulcan and FIM-92 Stinger battalion in the Israel's Northern border "Purple Line" of ceasefire when the IDF stayed in south Lebanon.

Kochav was a commander of a C2 in IAF during the 1997 Israeli helicopter disaster and led the rescue forces near the cemetery of Kibbutz Dafna.

In 2003–2005 Kochav was the commander of the 66th battalion ("Ram"), a mobile anti-aircraft battery based on several weapons – Machbet, M61 Vulcan, and FIM-92 Stinger – in the northern border of Israel after the withdrawal of the IDF from Lebanon (2000).

During this period, the IDF was also engaged in preventing Iranian entrenchment in Syria and in strategic cooperation with the United States of America and European countries.