Saturday, January 30, 2021

Northrop Grumman Says It Will Not Build Cluster Bombs

Cluster bomb. Credit: Textron 


The company's CEO says the decision is part of a move to "be thoughtful about potential human rights implications" of its products. 

Northrop Grumman said Thursday that it would walk away from a U.S. government cluster bomb contract as the company moves to distance itself from the deadly weapons commonly associated with civilian casualties. 

The contract involves the “testing of cluster munition components” and is “structured to help remove cluster munitions safely,” Northrop CEO Kathy Warden said on her company's quarterly earnings call on Thursday. 

The company does not make cluster munitions, which are air or ground-launched bombs that contain submunitions that spread indiscriminately over a wide area. Unexploded weapons from wars decades ago are still killing civilians. 

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WNU Editor: This means that there are now no US companies making cluster munitions. Textron, the last U.S. company to make cluster bombs, announced in 2016 that it would quit producing them​.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'm good with this decision.

If we get into a peer om peer war, those peers are using cluster bombs and we get badly hurt, who should we execute for treason?

Anonymous said...

hina develops 'banned cluster bomb' that can take out huge targets with one shot

"According to chilling reports in China, a new munitions dispenser has been developed that releases hundreds of submunitions. But critics argue it is actually an illegal cluster bomb"

August 18, 2020

Pacifists, do gooders, and other fruits, nuts, and flakes are making the world a worse place.