India to get most lethal and advanced cluster bombs from USA

[IBRIS]

The Indian Air Force has been cleared to receive 512 American-built CBU-105 sensor-fuzed munitions worth $257,737,338 more than two years after the Indian government first expressed it interest in procuring the system in September 2008. The IAF will also receive 44 training units. I'd reported on the system being in-principle cleared in March this year, with the final clearance coming in November. Total Buck Rogers weapon.

Livefist: IAF Cleared For CBU-105 Sensor-Fused Weapon

 

[DrSomnath999]

good move this kind of weapons can be game changer in future wars .
A real asymmetric weapon

 

[Icewolf]

Cluster bombs should be illegalized... So should carpet bombing....

 

[DrSomnath999]

Cluster bombs should be illegalized... So should carpet bombing....

well this skeet warheads are specifically for tanks & armoured vehicles only

 

[FairAndUnbiased]

India importing munitions again, well done.

 

[DrSomnath999]

India importing munitions again, well done.

lllolllz this single weapon can wipe out entire brigade of chinese toy tanks with ease . Well worth buying

 

[NirmalKrish]

lllolllz this single weapon can wipe out entire brigade of chinese toy tanks with ease . Well worth buying

GREAT, why do we release this information, watch the Chinese cyber army go nuts trying to steal information regarding this procurement

 

[FairAndUnbiased]

lllolllz this single weapon can wipe out entire brigade of chinese toy tanks with ease . Well worth buying

no it can't. China vs. India would be a harder beatdown than USA vs. Iraq.

 

[NirmalKrish]

Cluster bombs should be illegalized... So should carpet bombing....

In the course of war I don’t think governments are going to be bothered about sanctions and illegalisation of weapons. If this was illegalisation of N bombs unilaterally across all countries on the face of this planet yeah maybe it could work but conventional weapons yeah good luck. i say good top notch buy

 

[ARCHON]

can be used to destroy airstrips and all the bunkers.. buy thousands of them please....

 

[Raje amar]

great news, potent wepon apable of destroying coulm of armered division in a single blow.

 

[Roybot]

What platform is it going to be used with?

 

[anup]

When they are induction in IAF ? And it's possible to use with Rafale.

 

[Archie]

This article is from yr 2010

The contract was signed 18 months ago , infact even the production of these weapons for delivery to india Has begun
with deliveries to be completed in yr 2013

This is from Aero India 2011

AERO INDIA: Textron launches production of CBU-105 sensor fuzed weapon for India

extron Defense Systems has launched production of its CBU-105 sensor fuzed weapon (SFW) for India, following the receipt of a contract to supply 512 examples to the nation's air force.

The US company is still awaiting formal confirmation of the intended carriage aircraft for the area attack weapon, but this is expected to be India's Hindustan Aeronautics-built Sepecat Jaguar.

Made via the US government's Foreign Military Sales mechanism, the deal is worth $257 million.

"We're building up the payloads now and working towards issuance for integration," says Lisa Atherton, Textron Defense Systems' vice-president business development.

Meanwhile, Textron now believes that its SFW design is exempt from the Oslo Treaty, which bans the international sale or transfer of cluster munitions.

The weapon, which already betters US Department of Defense requirements by having a 99.6% reliability rate, uses individual skeet warheads which are non-hazardous if found on the ground in the event of a failure. The DoD categorises such skeets as "pick up and carry off" items if found on the battlefield, but Atherton says: "If it's on the ground, it's a hockey puck".


AERO INDIA: Textron launches production of CBU-105 sensor fuzed weapon for India

 

[angeldemon_007]

^^^
Thats what i thought....
@IBRIS, You are a senior member. Don't don't do such crappy stuff.