Skip to content
Surprising Science

Indefensible?

The US government is suing a defense contractor for allegedly substituting sophisticated warhead ignition devices for unsafe equivalents.

The US is suing a defense contractor for substituting sophisticated warhead ignition devices for for cheaper and less stable equivalents. A lawsuit has been filed against Kaman Dayron Inc., claiming it violated the False Claims Act by knowingly replacing non-conforming parts in fuzes used on hard target “bunker buster” bombs. “The government alleges that Kaman Dayron knowingly substituted non-conforming bellows motors for the specified parts in three lots of fuzes supplied to the military, and that the non-conforming parts could cause the fuzes to fire prematurely, creating a hazard for military personnel and causing misfires of the warheads. The military discovered the parts substitution and has quarantined the defective fuzes,” reports The Huffington Post.


Related

Up Next
Some claim the light hearted tone of new film “The Men who Stare at Goats” belies the steely complexity of the real-life figure the central character is based on.