Fri 07 June 2019:
The bombs are the advanced ‘bunker-buster’ version of the Spice-2000s
The Indian Air Force (IAF) on Thursday signed a deal worth about $43.2 million to purchase 100 more SPICE-2000 bombs with the Israeli defense firm Rafael, local media reported. Designed to destroy bunkers and other buildings, the new munitions are the advanced “bunker-buster” version of the Spice-2000 bombs. A penetrator version of the same SPICE bombs was allegedly used by the IAF in February against the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JEM) group in Pakistan’s Balakot.
“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,” a government official told ANI News. India claimed that its air force struck the “biggest training camp of Jaish-e-Mohammed” in Pakistan’s Balakot and killed “several terrorists” in February.
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