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صفقة ذخائر أمريكية لسلاح الجو السعودي
الصفقة بقيمة 641 مليون دولار
وتشمل 1300 قنبلة من نوع CBU-105
Textron wins $641 million deal to build Saudi cluster bombs
(Reuters) - Textron Defense Systems, a unit of Textron Inc (TXT.N), has won a U.S. Air Force contract valued at
$641 million to build 1,300 cluster bombs for Saudi Arabia, the U.S.
Defense Department and Textron said on Tuesday.
The contract, which runs through the end of 2015, formalizes the sale of
Textron's CBU-105 cluster bombers to Saudi Arabia, a deal that was first
notified to Congress in December 2010.
The Pentagon's daily digest of major arms sales said $410 million in foreign
military sales funds were being obligated for the Saudi work at this
time.
Textron said the CBU-105, also known as a Sensor Fuzed Weapon, meets the
Pentagon's policy on cluster munitions, which requires that they must not result
in more than 1 percent unexploded ordnance, or duds.
Company spokesman Stephen Greene said the Sensor Fuzed Weapon has a greater
than 99.6 percent reliability rate, which means that it may yield a dud less
than 0.5 percent of the time. He said the U.S. Air Force had also verified that
if a dud were to reach the ground, it would be inert and safe to handle in under
two minutes.
The Air Force had no immediate comment on details of the contract
announcement.
الصفقة بقيمة 641 مليون دولار
وتشمل 1300 قنبلة من نوع CBU-105
Textron wins $641 million deal to build Saudi cluster bombs
(Reuters) - Textron Defense Systems, a unit of Textron Inc (TXT.N), has won a U.S. Air Force contract valued at
$641 million to build 1,300 cluster bombs for Saudi Arabia, the U.S.
Defense Department and Textron said on Tuesday.
The contract, which runs through the end of 2015, formalizes the sale of
Textron's CBU-105 cluster bombers to Saudi Arabia, a deal that was first
notified to Congress in December 2010.
The Pentagon's daily digest of major arms sales said $410 million in foreign
military sales funds were being obligated for the Saudi work at this
time.
Textron said the CBU-105, also known as a Sensor Fuzed Weapon, meets the
Pentagon's policy on cluster munitions, which requires that they must not result
in more than 1 percent unexploded ordnance, or duds.
Company spokesman Stephen Greene said the Sensor Fuzed Weapon has a greater
than 99.6 percent reliability rate, which means that it may yield a dud less
than 0.5 percent of the time. He said the U.S. Air Force had also verified that
if a dud were to reach the ground, it would be inert and safe to handle in under
two minutes.
The Air Force had no immediate comment on details of the contract
announcement.
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