India To Buy 100 Spice 2000 Bombs From Israel, Same Explosives Used By Air Force In Balakot Strike

The Indian Air Force has signed a Rs 300-crore deal with Israeli firm Rafael Advanced Defence Systems to procure around 100 Spice 2000 bombs. According to ANI, these bombs are an advanced version of the Spice-2000 bombs, which can be used to reduce enemy buildings and bunkers to rubble in no time.

Wikipedia

Spice 2000 Bombs are the same explosive which was used by the IAF to target Jaish-e-Mohammed camps in Balakot, Pakistan on February 26.

"A contract for procuring over 100 SPICE bombs with Mark 84 warheads was signed with Israel under emergency provisions as per which the deliveries would be done in three months time," ANI quoting a top government source reported.

The IAF is likely to get possession of the Spice 2000 bombs in the next three months.?

Interestingly this is the first major deal signed by the Modi government after it was voted back to power last month.?

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Spice-2000 is the biggest conventional bomb that can be delivered by IAF and is used on French-origin Mirage-2000 jets.

Spice bomb has a standoff range of 60 kilometers and approaches the target as its unique scene-matching algorithm compares the electro-optical image received in real-time via the weapon seeker with mission reference data stored in the weapon computer memory and adjusts the flight path accordingly. SPICE 2000 consists of an add-on kit for warheads such as the MK-84, BLU-109, APW and RAP-2000.

Spice stands for Smart, Precise-Impact, and Cost-Effective and is a GPS-guided guidance kit for converting air-droppable unguided bombs into precision-guided bombs.