Posted on 03/30/2005 3:35:22 PM PST by Righty_McRight
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- McDonnell Douglas Corp., a Boeing Co. unit, has received a $609.3 million contract to supply the Air Force with kits to modify bombs with sophisticated guidance systems, the Defense Department announced late Wednesday.
The contract runs through February 2007 and involves 30,072 GPS satellite-based guidance kits that can be added to traditional unguided bombs to make them much more accurate.
In December, Boeing (BA: news, chart, profile) said that it had supplied 100,000 of the kits to the United States.
Production increased since Sept. 11, 2001, Boeing has said, for use in the military campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan.
A quarter of the work will be shared with Honeywell Inc. (HON: news, chart, profile) , according to the Pentagon.
Wow!
Money well spent.
Heres a cool video of a JDAM Test
http://users.rcn.com/sitzkrieg/war/jdamboom.mpg
No wonder CAIR was bleating incessently lately.
Oh the humanity!
Still wouldn't the price be lower if they were making
a million of them??
Gearing up for china one day I suppose.
Better living through science.
ping
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