Worldwide investments in CLUSTER MUNITIONS

• India: In December 2010, the following FMS contract was closed with Textron Systems: “$257,737,338
contract which will provide for 512 sensor-fuzed weapons CBU-105 production units and 44 training
units. This contract supports foreign military sales to India. At this time, $126,291,295 has been obligated.
Eglin Air Force Base is the contracting activity.” 102 In February 2011, Textron officially announced that
it had received this contract to produce SFWs for the government of India. The company received
US$126 million in initial funding. 103
In September 2013, Textron was awarded a US$9 million contract modification for the development
of a remote terminal interface control document for the munitions control unit to integrate the Sensor
Fuzed Weapon on the Indian Jaguar Aircraft. 104
In May 2014, another modification contract was signed with Textron for the sum of US$17 million
providing for the final phase of integration of the weapon into the aircraft. The project was expected
to be completed by September 2015. 105
• Saudi Arabia: In June 2011, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency notified the U.S. Congress of a
possible sale of 404 CBU-105 SFW to the Government of Saudi Arabia. 106 Saudi Arabia is listed in Textron’s
2014 Fact Book as a recipient of SFWs. 107 In December 2012, Textron Defense Systems was awarded a
US$80 million contract modification for procurement of cluster bomb units and associated training
rounds and in August 2013 another US$641 million modification to the contract for “1,300 cluster bomb
units”; delivery was expected to be completed by December 2015. 108
• Taiwan: in September 2011, the U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency notified Congress of a possible
foreign military sale worth US$5.3 billion for retrofitting Taiwanese F-16A/B aircraft and associated
equipment, including the sale of 64 CBU-105 WCMD SFWs. 109 The main upgrading contract valued at
US$1.85 billion was awarded to Lockheed Martin in September 2012, however, no mention of SFWs was
made there. 110
Textron is included on the red flag list because there is sufficient evidence that the company has produced
and sold the SFW after May 2008. The company has not stated publicly that it will end its involvement in
the coming 12 months.
1.1.8 Companies no longer on our red flag list
Singapore Technologies Engineering (Singapore)
Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd (ST Engineering) is an engineering group specialising in military
products and services in the aerospace, electronics, land systems and marine sectors. 111 It is one of Asia’s
largest arms producers. 112
Singapore Technologies Kinetics, which is the land systems arm of Singapore Technologies Engineering, 113
produced at least two versions of the 155 mm High-Explosive (HE) Dual Purpose-Improved Conventional
Munition (DPICM) containing 64 submunitions with a mechanical self-destruct fuze and a dud rate of 3%
for its submunitions. 114
In 2008 and 2010, Singapore Technologies Engineering stated that it had never produced any cluster munitions
for export or ever was a subcontractor to anyone that does. 115 However, these statements did not explicitly
exclude production for the Singapore government.
In November 2015, in reply to a letter from PAX about its involvement with the production of cluster munitions,
Singapore Technologies Engineering wrote that “ST Engineering is no longer in the business of designing,
producing and selling of anti-personnel mines and cluster munitions or any related key components.” 116
We removed Singapore Technologies Engineering from the red flag list because it has confirmed that it has
stopped producing and marketing cluster munitions or related key components.
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