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Thursday, February 10, 2011

India getting Textron bombs


Textron Defense Systems of Massachusetts will provide sensor-fuzed weapons to India through a U.S. Air Force contract.

The Foreign Military Sale agreement for 512 CBU-105 sensor-fuzed bombs is worth $257 million. The company said $126 million of the total amount is funded immediately.

"We believe that SFW is truly the best area attack weapon in the world," said Ellen Lord, senior vice president and general manager of Textron Defense Systems.

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