GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Textron Defense Systems Receives $257M Order to Supply Sensor Fuzed Weapons to Indian Air Force

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: Defense Aerospace.com

11February2011 10:07amEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: BANGALORE, India --- Textron Defense Systems, an operating unit of Textron Systems, a Textron Inc. company, announced Wednesday that it has received a contract from the U.S. Air Force to produce 512 CBU-105 Sensor Fuzed Weapon (SFW) units for the Government of India under a Foreign Military Sale agreement. The total value of the contract is $257 million with $126 million funded immediately.

"We believe that SFW is truly the best area attack weapon in the world. Through a process of rigorous research, testing and analysis, we have created a weapon that is reliable, safe and meets current clean battlefield standards," said Ellen Lord, senior vice president and general manager of Textron Defense Systems.

The Textron Defense Systems' combat-proven SFW is unique among munitions systems because of its redundant technologies for clean battlefield operation. SFW has been engineered to eliminate the risk of unacceptable harm to civilians or non-combatants. As a result, it is the only air-delivered weapon that meets the strict unexploded ordnance (UXO) criteria for cluster munitions — requiring less than one percent UXO in intended operational environments — set forth by the U.S. Secretary of Defense in June 2008.  (read full report)

 

 

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