The Intercept reported that the US Department of Defense signed, last September and without public announcement, a $210 million contract to purchase advanced cluster shells from Tomer, an Israeli state-owned company.
According to the report, the details of the deal appeared in a federal government procurement database, marking the largest contract the Department of Defense has awarded to an Israeli company for weapons purchases in about 18 years.
The information indicates that the contract calls for the production of 155 millimeter cluster munitions over a period of three years as part of updating the ammunition stockpile.
