Vietnam Profiteers (Antipersonnel Weapons)
Prokosch, Eric
Listed below are companies that manufacture antipersonnel weapons under contract to the U.S. Department of Defense. "Antipersonnel" is defined by Pentagon dictionaries as "designed to destroy or...
...M158E1 2.75-in...
...rocket launcher DAAHO1-69-C-0501/$173,491 Huntsville, Ala...
...M18A1 antipersonnel mine metal parts DAAA21-69-C-0257/$543,000 Elmhurst, N.Y...
...ammuniti fired from aircraft against person and light vehicles Parts for 2.75-in...
...BIRMA PRODUCTS CORP...
...7/32" steel balls for bomblets F33657-68-C-0668/$2,925,000 New Britain, Conn...
...Waterbury, Conn...
...Louis, Mo...
...version of the Bullpup B air-to- Oct...
...Los Angeles, Calif...
...M423 fuze metal parts for 2.75-in...
...DAY & ZIMMERMAN, INC...
...rocket fuze metal par XM592E1 fuzes for antipersonnel projectiles M118 40mm...
...SUU-30B/B cluster bomb dispensers F33657-68-C-0809/$2,649,360 La Mirada, Cal...
...low velocity DA11-199-66-AMC-719W/$57,197 automatic grenade launcher Engineering study of release of self- DA18-064-AMC-170A dispersing munitions from high speed airborne vehicles AERONCA, INC...
...Belleville, N.J...
...rocket fuze testers T25E5 57mm...
...3 A division of the Whittaker Corp...
...and the House Committee on Appropriations Hearings on the Department of Defense Appropriations for 1967 (DoD App...
...Louis, Mo...
...M79 grenade launchers DAll-199-AMC-715W/$3,252,506 KELSEY HAYES CO., Heintz Mkl Mod 1 2.75-in...
...M429 2.75-in...
...rocket Production of 40mm...
...rocket DAAA21-69-C-0267/$159,807 Sayresville, N.J...
...rocket warhead M151 2.75-in...
...CO., BLU-26/B "guava" bomblet metal parts F33657-68-C-0078/$5,440,000 INC., Parsons, Kas...
...DAAA09-68-C-0131/$530,100 Martin, Texas rocket ALSCO, INC., Techfab Div., XM159C 2.75-in...
...rocket motor DAA21-68-C-0715/$251,220 INC., Santa Barbara, Cal...
...rocket $1,000,000 (CBD, 6-21-67) Fort Worth, Texas Mk55 Mod 0 antipersonnel projectile N00104-68-C-5482/$3,439,437 AMRON CORP...
...Igniters for 2.75-in rocket motor DAAA21-68-C-0674/$999,552 Saugus, Calif...
...Birmingham, Ala...
...grenade launcher INSTITUTE FOR DEFENSE Study of explosively-produced (TAB, May 1, 1967) ANALYSES, Jason Div., flechettes Arlington, Va...
...EASTERN TOOL & MFG...
...GENERAL TIME CORP...
...antipersonnel mine and sub-pack system BULOVA WATCH CO...
...1966) surface missile for fragmentation use against ground troops Canisters for the aerial mine system $2,389,258 (Army R&D, Jan...
...AMERICAN MFG...
...Antipersonnel" is defined by Pentagon dictionaries as "designed to destroy or obstruct personnel...
...Wilkes-Barre, Pa...
...Services and materials for an in- DAA21-68-C-0655 Richmond, Ind...
...the M406 40mm...
...68) MARTIN-MARIETTA CORP...
...Wilmington, Del...
...Contractor: Product: Contract number/Amount: AAI CORP...
...Sedro-Wooley, Wash...
...2 BLU-24/B bomblet metal parts F33657-16687/$9,350,000 Batesville & Camden, Ark...
...Army Research and Development Newsmagazine (Army R&D...
...denial mine systems Development of chemical fuze for DAAA21-68-C-0755/$537,730 antipersonnel mines UNITED AEROTEST LABS, INC...
...the XM8 helicopter armament subsystem based on the XM129 40m...
...1967, v. 4, p. 244) DAAG39-68-C-0065/$92,818 DA-OAD05-68-C-0345X/$288,308 DAA09-68-C-0371/$242,880 DAAA21-68-C-0782/$3,351,500 $1,205,085 (Army R&D, Feb...
...WURLITZER CO...
...grenade metal parts Design and development of 40mm...
...M427 2.75-in...
...grenade metal parts DAAA09-69-C-0131/$1,324,965 BACHE TOOL & DIE CO...
...9 Loading and packing of 2.75-in...
...rocket Mathematical study of the effective of 20mm., 30mm., and 40mm...
...fibre gasket KISCO CO., INC., M14B4 cartridge casas for 105mm...
...1968) DAAA09-69-C-0105/$1,697,115 DA36-038-AMC-4036A/$3,220,000 DAAA25-68-C-0458A/$250,000 DAAA09-69-C-0104/$1,992,600 DAll-173-AMC-677A/$1,241,813 DAAA25-68-C-0431A/$1,050,709 DAAA09-69-C-0143/$3,113,415 DAAA09-69-C-0135/$1,290,900 DAAA09-69-C-0128/$1,597,320 DAAA09-68-C-0370/$9,360,000 10 HONEYWELL, INC...
...rocket component Metal parts for cluster bombs M94B1 cartridge for 106mm...
...BATESVILLE MFG...
...ALUMINUM CO...
...EASTERN TOOL & MFG...
...SKAGIT CORP...
...Engineering study to adapt the XM27 (TAB, July 1, 1967) Alexandria, Va...
...FAIRCHILD CAMERA & INSTRUMENT CORP., Syosset, L.I., N.Y...
...SUU-30B/B cluster bomb dispensers F33657-68-C-0810/$2,649,360 Cullman, Ala.DAY & Zfl<2{ERMA1q, INC...
...SUU-14/A cluster bomb dispensers DAAA09-69-C-0025/$1,250,000 Downey, Calif...
...Grenade launchers, downward firing N00019-68-C-0430/$104,1 6 5 Baltimore Div., weapon system aircraft modification Baltimored Md...
...NORRIS INDUSTRIES, INC...
...rocket warhead Loading, assembly and packing of XM41E1 mine into CDU-4/B canister (Tactical Fighter Dispenser Munitio DAll1-173-AMC-00114/$99,219,021 DAAA09-67-C-0213/$1,072,401 DAAG25-68-C-0755/$668,064 DAAG25-68-C-0723/$895,438 DAAF03-68-C-0044/$162,000 DAAF03-68-C-0025/$4,465,500 DA28-017-AMC-02893A/$772,791 DAAA21-68-C-0793/$650,124 $1,736,870 (Army R&D, Jul-Aug 1968) DAAA09-69-C-0032/$3,092,800 AF08-635-4081 DAAA21-69-C-0268/$163,395 $75,708 (CBD, 2-24-67) $1,389,640 (Army R&D, Feb...
...FUSION RUBBERMAID CORP...
...antipersonnel mine fuze ABG INSTRUMENT & ENGINEERING, Lockwires for 2.75-in...
...mine fuze (with AAI Corp...
...rocket warheads, and other ammunition for use in Southeast Asia DAll-173-AMC-85A/$13,695,852 _ DAAG39-69-C-0002/$216,433 DAAA21-68-C-1032/$250,040 DAAA09-69-C-00888/$3,090,600 (DoD App...
...Muncie, Ind...
...MELPAR, INC., Fairfax, Va...
...rocket motor tubes DAAA21-69-C-0236/$5,824,350 Pittsburgh, Pa.8 AMERICAN ELECTRIC, INC...
...HAMILTON WATCH CO...
...the "rockeye" cluster bomb rocket...
...Fin and nozzle assemblies for 2.75-in...
...Contracts preceded by the letters DA are Army contracts...
...Newport Beach, Calif...
...DAAA09-68-C-0337/$546,556 North Tonawanda, N.J...
...1 Development of a carrying case for DA28-017-AMC-2558A Flare Northern Div., the XM27 Mod 2 gravel mine West Hanover, Mass...
...HAYES INTERNATIONAL CORP...
...grenade M423 2.75-in...
...Ordnance Div...
...GIBBS MFG...
...SUU-30A/B cluster bomb dispensers F33657-68-C-1094/$1,300,000 M26 antipersonnel mine metal parts DAAA09-68-C-0279/$113,654 BEECH AIRCRAFT CORP...
...Santa Clara and San Jose, Calif...
...rocket fuzes DAAA09-69-C-0033/$2,977,849 Chicago, Ill...
...Beehive projectile XM592E1 fuzes for antipersonnel projectiles M427 2.75-in...
...rocket warhead DAAA09-C-69-C-0176/$992,250 Waterloo, Iowa COLUMBUS MILPAR MFG...
...FTS CORP Denver, Colo...
...Military Products Div...
...grenade metal parts M406 40mm...
...HARVEY ALUMINUM, INC...
...artillery shells containing 'flechettes' (small steel darts), including the "Beehive" flechette projectile...
...flechette and smoke projectiles KOEHLER & SONS, Hatboro, Pa...
...flechette projectile Loading and packing of CBU-25A/A antipersonnel bombs, M151 2 .75-in...
...Albion, Mich...
...1968) Fighter Dispenser Munition ATLANTIC RESEARCH CORP...
...3 parts for BLU-24/B and BLU-66/B F0835-69-C-0016/$19,089,911 Columbus, Ohio bomblets Nozzle assemblies for 2.75-in...
...Phila., Pa...
...The list encompasses antipersonnel cluster bombs, consisting of a dispenser unit with scores of 'bomblets' (like the deadly "guava" bomb, widely used in Vietnam...
...11 Operation of Iowa Army Ammunition Plant for production of mines and medium and large caliber ammunition (gravel mines) XM429 2.75-in...
...grenade metal parts for M384 40mm...
...antipersonnel mines, including the 'gravel' mine (composed of lead azide...
...HAYES-ALBION CORP...
...weapons systems XM380E5 and XM603E1 105mm...
...rocket warhead, N104-9323A/$957,258 Div., Phila., Pa...
...rocket with high-fragmentation warhead...
...Technical Abstract Bulletin (TAB), published by the Defense Documentation Center...
...EMERSON ELECTRIC CO...
...MEDICO INDUSTRIES, INC...
...mine to the SUU-13/A bomb dispenser Opener assemblies for the Tactical (Army R&D, Feb...
...KDI PRECISION PRODUCTS, INC...
...Development of an antipersonnel $900,000 (Ordnance, Sept.Orlando, Fla...
...3,038,945 (Army R&D, rockets July-Aug...
...MAXSON ELECTRONICS CORP...
...OF AMERICA 2 .75-in...
...ADVENTURE LINE MFG...
...metal parts for XM3 antipersonnel DAAA09-68-C-0048/$334,373 Middletown, Ohio mine dispenser AIRPORT MACHINING CORP...
...kitsMASON & HANGER, Silas Mason Co., Inc...
...WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC CORP...
...NASH-HAMMOND, INC...
...grenade fuzes at Twin Cities Army Ammunition Plant $1,293,545 (DIB, June 1965) HOOVER BALL & BEARING CO...
...Horsham, Pa...
...rocket warhead metal parts Development of Rockeye dispenser fl Development of telemetry systems fi XM429 2.75-in...
...Mk56 Mod 0 antipersonnel projectiles N00104-68-C-5481/$8,183,565 Morton, Pa...
...vestigation of improved antipersonnel kill mechanisms Development of Avroc rocket-propelled (Ordnance, Jan.-Feb...
...rocket launchers DAAH01-69-C-07291$1,510,686 St...
...SPERRY RAND CORP...
...Phoenix, Ariz...
...PHILCO-FORD CORP...
...antipersonnel fragmentation grenade and various launching systems...
...ACF INDUSTRIES, INC...
...SUU-30B/B cluster bomb dispensers F33657-68-C-0625/$558,000 M151 warhead metal parts for 2.75-in...
...Wall Street Journal (WSJ...
...SUU-7C/A cluster bomb dispensers DAAA09-69-C-0204/$1,990,674 OF AMERICA, Dallas, Texas AVCO CORP., Ordnance Div...
...HUGHES TOOL CO...
...System concept studies and engineering investigations of air-to-surface area denial weapons AF08-635-3070 Development and production of N00019-69-C-0163/$15,473,235 Rockeye II bombs BLU-26/B "guava" bomblet metal parts F33657-68-C-0776/$8,104,800 7/32" steel balls for bomblets F33657-68-C-0667/$588,000 SU-13/A cluster bomb dispensers DAAAO9-68-C-0257/$40,600 XM429E1 proximity fuze safety and DAAG39-68-C-0037/$190,000 arming devices for 2.75-in...
...rockets and other munitions Facilities for production of lead azide for gravel mines at Kansas Army Ammunition Plant M406 40mm...
...SUU-30B/B cluster bomb dispensers F33657-68-C-0840/$2,916,000 Dallas, Texas LANSDOWNE STEEL & IRON CO...
...DAAA09-69-C-0134/$1,214,987 rocket Magazines for XM174 40mm...
...Jonesville, Wisc...
...DAAA09-69-C-0043/$13,400,000 St...
...rocket CESSNA AIRCRAFT SUU-7C/A cluster bomb dispensers DAAA09-69-C-0007/$986,957 Wichita, Kans...
...Louis, Mo...
...Such weapons, in other words, are devastating to human flesh but relatively harmless to concrete and steel...
...rocket proximity fu: Development of a counter-ambush barrage weapon system Integrated circuit for XM429 2.75-: rocket fuze Fin and nozzle assemblies for 2.75rocket Plastic cannisters for Tactical Fil Dispenser Munition BLU-26/B "guava" bomblet metal parl Fuze parts for bomblet dispensers 2.75-in...
...HERCULES, INC...
...grenade launchers M18A1 antipersonnel mine metal part 2.75-in...
...Metal parts for cluster bombs $4,087,241 (WSJ, 10-25-66) St...
...M151 warhead metal parts for 2 .75-in...
...OF TEXAS M151 warhead for 2 .75-in...
...INDUSTRIES, INC...
...rocket fin, nozzle assemb] M429 proximity fuze for 2.75-in...
...DAAA09-69-C-0175/$1,410,231 Jackson Heights, N.Y...
...Parts for BLU-26/B "guava" bomblet F33657-68-C-0545/$260,252 Westbury, N.Y...
...rocket XM571E1 fuzes for XM580E1 90mm...
...FMC CORP...
...VICTOR COMPTOMETER CORP...
...MAXSON ELECTRONICS CORP., Maxson-Macon Div., Macon, Ga...
...Engineer, develop, design, and test DAAF01-67-C-0811/$639,608 Culver City, Calif...
...rocket fuze testers DAAG39-69-C-0002/$216,433 -12 STANFORD RESEARCH INSTITUTE Fragmentation warhead study AF08(635)-2915/$87,950 Menlo Park, Calif...
...FALCON RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CORP., Denver, Colo...
...New York, N.Y...
...Design and development of the XM43 DAAA21-69-C-0002/$750,000 Fairfield, N.J...
...grenade DAAA09-68-C-0070/$341,996 ATLANTIC RESEARCH CORP...
...1968) MARTIN-MARIETTA CORP...
...Acronetics Div...
...E.L...
...Lancaster, Pa...
...Louis, Mo...
...1 A subsidiary of the Susquehanna orp...
...1968...
...M118 cartridge case metal parts for DAAA09-69-C-0144/$3,918,750 Waukesha, Wisc...
...2 A subsidiary of the Aerojet-General Corp...
...Hopkins and Minneapolis, Minn...
...grenade launchers XM129 4 0mm...
...the Tactical Fighter Bomb Dispenser Munition (a new cluster bomb system for high speed aircraft...
...L.T...
...7/32" steel balls for bomblets F33657-68-C-0807/$899,000 KOLLSMAN INSTRUMENT CORP...
...MICROCOM CORP...
...Integrated circuits for 2.75-in...
...Torrance, Calif...
...by AF or F, Air Force contracts...
...gur drive system XM28 helicopter armament subsystem...
...MARQUARDT CORP...
...rocket fuzes ZENITH RADIO CORP...
...Other sources are: Ordnance magazine, published by the American Ordnance Assn...
...7/32" steel balls for bomblets F33657-68-C-0669/$825,6CO Erwin Tenn...
...Beehive projectiles M75 40mm...
...MILLER RESEARCH CORP...
...the M406 40mm...
...slug-filled projectile metal parts M151 2.75-in...
...68) DAAA21-69-C-0243/$11,020,680 $1,000,000 (CBD, 6-22-67) AF08(635)-4977/$429,600 AF33657-16110/$11,377,000 DAAA21-69-C-0099/$2,530,836 and DAAA21-69-C-0093/$1,141,178 DAll-199-AMC-00687W/ $1,400,757 DAAG07-68-C-710W/$2,457,743 DAAA21-69-C-0258/ $804,000 $1,054,930 (DIB, July 1965) $4,171,813 (WSJ, 10-25-66) DAAGO5-67-C-0578A/$265,825 DAll-173-51-AMC-0080/$43,977,106 XM429 2.75-in...
...rocket fuzes KANARR CORP., Kingston, Pa...
...rocket motor tubes M108B1 cartridge cases for M377 90t flechette projectile Design, development and testing of flechette area neutralization gun WDU-4/A flechette warhead for 2.75rocket XM380E5 and XM603E1 105mm...
...FILTERS, INC., San Jose, Cal...
...rocket Supporting studies for button bomb] Plastic canisters for Tactical Figl Dispenser Munition M423 fuze parts for 2.75-in...
...DU PONT DE NEMOURS CO...
...Baltimore, Md...
...NATIONAL LEAD CO., DoehlerJarvis Div., Toledo, Ohio NATIONAL UNION ELECTRIC CO...
...BREED CORP...
...Parts for 2.75-in...
...M151 2.75-in...
...CHAMBERLAIN MFG...
...PS113A power supply for XM429 2.75-in...
...Design and development of the XM617U DA36-034-ORD-3750A Cockeysville, Md...
...MOTOROLA, INC., Semi-conductor Products Div., Phoenix, Ariz...
...RESEARCH CORP...
...1968) 40mm...
...SUPERIOR STEEL BALL CO...
...Investigations of low-density area DA36-034-AMC-0166A Bristol, Pa...
...grenade cartridge case M151 2.75-in...
...rocket fuze metal parts DAAA09-69-C-0158/$2,016,900 M406 40mm...
...NORTHROP CORP., Nortronics Div., Anaheim, Calif...
...MUNCIE GEAR WORKS, INC...
...68) F33657-68-C-0775/$3,086,930 $3,318,900 (Army R&D, Jan...
...ELECTRONICS, INC...
...Great River, L.I., N.Y...
...the 2.75-in...
...Sources for contract data: unless otherwise noted, all contracts are taken from the Commerce Department's publication, Commerce Business Daily (CBD), during the period March - Nov...
...A.C...
...the Defense Industry Bulletin (DIB...
...WHIRLPOOL CORP., Design and development of new and DA33-008-ORD-2118 and other Evansville Ordnance Div., improved flechettes and applicable contracts Evansville, Ind...
...Beehive DAAA21-69-C-0098/$3,487,806 and projectiles DAAA21-69-C-0092/$1,643,009 WHITTAKER CORP., Bermite Div...
...grenade launchers) Design and development of XM4 antipersonnel mine dispenser XM594E1 assemblies for XM580E1 90mi Beehive 2.75-in...
...EISEN BROS., Hoboken, N.J...
...rocket DAAA21-68-C-0645/$83,520 CULLMAN METALCRAFT, INC...
...and by N, Navy contracts...
...rocket fuze metal par M423 2.75-in...
...Skokie, Ill...
...REYNOLDS METAL CO...
...AEROJET-GENERAL CORP...
...rocket fuze metal parts DAAA09-69-C-0196/$1,518,075 Norwood and Cincinatti, Ohio Safety and arming devices for XM429 DAAG39-67-C-0059/$26,774 2.75-in...
...and the high-fragmentation Bullpup and Shrike guided missiles...
...7/32" steel balls for bomblets F33657-68-C-0723/$990,450 Daisy-Heddon Div., Rogers, Ark...
...DAAG39-67-C-0049/$50,000 Molecular Electronics Div., rocket Elkridge, Md...
...employs 40mm...
...FRANKLIN INSTITUTE Phila., Pa...
...SUU-7C/A cluster bomb dispensers DAAA09-68-C-0008/$940,500 Wichita, Kans...
...SCOVILL MFG...
...THIOKOL CHEMICAL CORP...
...REPUBLIC CORP., Consolidated Molded Products Div., Scranton, Pa...
...AUTOMATIC SPRINKLER CORP...
...Development of XM617U antipersonnel DA36-034-ORD-3750A Deer Park, N.Y...
Vol. 3 • May 1969 • No. 3
