09/11/2007

St Athan Raytheon and the 'Cluster Bomb'

St Athan, Raytheon and the Cluster Bomb

Blogger on the 'bomb' a comment on our story from earlier today!
What Is Wales And What Is It For?...

“To clarify, Raytheon has never manufactured cluster bombs, but in the past we have been associated with their manufacture because of our contract to produce a missile that can carry different types of munition payloads, determined by the customer...”Well, there you go. It never made the bombs. But it did make a delivery vehicle.And what a delivery vehicle.The item in question was the AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon, used extensively in Iraq and which in 2006 it sold to Turkey.According to Raytheon’s own press team in April 2006: “The AGM-154 A (also called JSOW-A) variant dispenses BLU-97 combined-effect bomblets for use against soft andarea targets. It is produced for use on the F/A-18, F-16, F-15E, B-1, B-2 and B-52 aircraft.”

1 comment:

Greg Lewis said...

Politicians on St Athan:

http://whatiswales.blogspot.com/2007/11/st-athan-raytheon-and-cluster-bomb.html