1300 CBU-105 Cluster Bombs for Saudi Air Force

[Mosamania]

1300 CBU-105 Cluster Bombs for Saudi Air Force




WASHINGTON (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.

(Reporting by Andrea Shalal-Esa; Editing by Bob Burgdorfer)

Textron wins $641 million deal to build Saudi cluster bombs

This pita the number of CBU-105s in RSAF arsenal to 1700

 

[Yzd Khalifa]

We may need to use these against enemies states like Iran

 

[The Deterrent]

Give Pakistan some too.

 

[Kompromat]

Give Pakistan some too.

Too hard to develop, independently programmable laser guided submunitions??

We may need to use these against enemies states like Iran

We have sold some cluster bombs to you in the past.

 

[The Deterrent]

Too hard to develop, independently programmable laser guided submunitions??

Of course, the CBU-105 skeets represent a very impressive embedded system design with great reliability. Pakistan can develop the basic design, but it would be hard to make it compact enough and reliable. It would also be very costly.

 

[Yzd Khalifa]

And continuing

We have sold some cluster bombs to you in the past.

 

[Kompromat]

Of course, the CBU-105 skeets represent a very impressive embedded system design with great reliability. Pakistan can develop the basic design, but it would be hard to make it compact enough and reliable. It would also be very costly.

US is not the only vendor, of this technology

 

[Yzd Khalifa]

US is not the only vendor, of this technology

Can you guys give us your cruise missiles?

 

[Zarvan]

Can you guys give us your cruise missiles?

Buy it man you can get cruise missiles from many countries including China we would love to sell them Saudi Arabia in fact I wouldn't be surprised if Pakistan may already have given some to Saudi Arabia

 

[Kompromat]

Can you guys give us your cruise missiles?

Only if you don't tell EU and NATO - they'll hurdle our NSG membership again.

Buy it man you can get cruise missiles from many countries including China we would love to sell them Saudi Arabia in fact I wouldn't be surprised if Pakistan may already have given some to Saudi Arabia

No we can't , Babur's range is more than what Missile Technology Transfer Control Regime allows. Pakistan wants NSG membership, right now we cannot afford to be engaged in proliferation.

 

[Zarvan]

Only if you don't tell EU and NATO - they'll hurdle our NSG membership again.



No we can't , Babur's range is more than what Missile Technology Transfer Control Regime allows. Pakistan wants NSG membership, right now we cannot afford to be engaged in proliferation.

Do you think Pakistan gives any importance to these rules or Saudi Arabia for that matter if they won't get it from us they would get them from China I mean cruise missiles who is going to stop them

 

[Kompromat]

Do you think Pakistan gives any importance to these rules or Saudi Arabia for that matter if they won't get it from us they would get them from China I mean cruise missiles who is going to stop them

Do you want NSG membership and permanent UNSC seat in the next 20 years or not?

 

[Zarvan]

Do you want NSG membership and permanent UNSC seat in the next 20 years or not?

Do you think Pakistan won't get them if we do these things Sir denying Saudi Arabia Pakistan would never do it Sir they may sell them via China but if Saudi decided to buy them from Pakistan they would get them

 

[Kompromat]

Do you think Pakistan won't get them if we do these things Sir denying Saudi Arabia Pakistan would never do it Sir they may sell them via China but if Saudi decided to buy them from Pakistan they would get them

As long as it doesn't have our fingerprints on it.

 

[Black Eagle 90]

1300 CBU-105 Cluster Bombs for Saudi Air Force




WASHINGTON (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.

(Reporting by Andrea Shalal-Esa; Editing by Bob Burgdorfer)

Textron wins $641 million deal to build Saudi cluster bombs

This pita the number of CBU-105s in RSAF arsenal to 1700

I am AEC can easily build such smart cluster bombs and other GPS and Laser guided weapons..