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#Pentagon Makes Largest Known Arms Purchase from #Israel — For Banned #ClusterWeapons

The no-bid deal for arms internationally banned for high civilian death tolls is the biggest purchase from Israel in available government records.

Dan Glaun, February 6 2026

"The Department of Defense has quietly signed a $210 million deal to buy advanced cluster shells from one of Israel’s state-owned arms companies, marking unusually large new commitments to a class of weapons and an Israeli defense establishment both widely condemned for their indiscriminate killing of #civilians.

"The deal, signed in September and not previously reported, is the department’s largest contract to purchase weapons from an Israeli company in available records, according to an online federal database that covers the last 18 years. In a reversal of the more commonly seen direction for weapons transfers between the countries — in which the U.S. sends its weapons to Israel — the U.S. will pay the Israeli weapons firm Tomer over a period of three years to produce a new 155mm munition. The shells are designed to replace decades-old and often defective cluster shells that left live explosives scattered across #Vietnam, #Laos, #Iraq, and other nations.

"The terror of cluster weapons persists long after the guns that fired them have quieted, as civilians return to fields, forests, and settlements laced with bomblets that can explode years later without warning."

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Pentagon Makes Largest Known Arms Purchase From Israel — For Banned Cluster Weapons

The contract for the controversial weapons known for high civilian death tolls is the largest of its kind in available government records.

The Intercept