March 10 (Reuters) – Boeing has signed a new $289 million contract with Israel to deliver as many as 5,000 new air-launched smart bombs, a source told Reuters on Tuesday.
The new contract is not related to the ongoing U.S.-Israeli air strikes on Iran, with deliveries not scheduled to start for 36 months, Bloomberg News reported earlier, citing a person familiar with the matter.
Boeing declined to comment when contacted by Reuters.
The company’s Small Diameter Bomb is a guided munition that can be launched by Israeli jets at targets more than 40 miles (64 kilometers) away.
(Reporting by Mike Stone in Washington, Mariam Sunny and Parth Chandna in Bengaluru; Editing by Alan Barona)
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