FMS notified Feb 28, 2025
Contract or deal
On 28 February 2025 the State Department declared an emergency, waiving congressional review, and approved a $2.04B sale to Israel of up to 35,529 MK-84 or BLU-117 2,000-pound bomb bodies and 4,000 I-2000 penetrator warheads. General Dynamics (Garland, Texas), Ellwood National Forge and McAlester Army Ammunition Plant were named prime contractors; deliveries were due to begin in 2026. A separate emergency package the same day covered 201 MK-83 and 4,799 BLU-110 1,000-pound bomb bodies and 5,000 JDAM kits ($675.7M; Repkon USA and Boeing). These are approved maximums; actual deliveries are unpublished. The bodies are the casings JDAM kits turn into guided one-ton bombs, which Bellingcat documented destroying high-rises in Gaza City in 2025. In September 2026 the administration proposed 40,000 more 2,000-pound bombs worth $2.8B, now held in Congress.
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estimated cost of $2.04 billion ... The prime contractors will be General Dynamics, located in Garland, TX; Ellwood National Forge Company, located in Irvine, PA; and McAlester Army Ammunition Plant
The Secretary of State has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of Israel of Munitions ... an emergency exists that requires the immediate sale
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