NEW DELHI – In a major development, India on Thursday signed a deal withIsrael under emergency provisions worth around Rs 300 crore for buying over100 SPICE bombs with high explosives warhead for the Indian Air Force. Thisis the first defence deal signed by the government after Prime MinisterNarendra Modi took over for a second term.
The bombs to be procured are an advanced version of the Spice-2000 bomb,which can be used to reduce enemy buildings and bunkers to rubbles in notime.
“A contract for procuring over 100 SPICE bombs with Mark 84 warheads wassigned with Israel under emergency provisions as per which the deliverieswould be done in three months time,” top government sources told ANI.
“The IAF is now going to acquire the bunker buster or the buildingdestroyer version with Mark 84 warhead which can decimate targetedbuildings,” the sources said.
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SPICE bomb has a standoff range of 60 kilometres and approaches the targetas its unique scene-matching algorithm compares the electro-optical imagereceived in real-time via the weapon seeker with mission reference datastored in the weapon computer memory and adjusts the flight pathaccordingly.
SPICE 2000 consists of an add-on kit for warheads such as the MK-84,BLU-109, APW and RAP-2000.
