Israel to buy up to 5,000 precision bombs from Boeing in $289 million deal
The contract is structured as a direct commercial sale rather than a U.S. government arms deal.
Boeing has signed a contract valued at about $289 million to supply Israel with up to 5,000 air-launched precision bombs, according to Reuters.
The weapons are Boeing’s Small Diameter Bomb, a guided munition designed to strike targets more than 40 miles away when launched from fighter aircraft.
Deliveries under the agreement are not expected to begin for roughly three years. The purchase is not connected to the current U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran.
Unlike many arms transactions involving U.S. allies, the deal is structured as a direct commercial sale between Boeing and Israel rather than a government-to-government foreign military sale. Details of the agreement are expected to appear in the Federal Register.
The order represents at least the third known purchase of the weapon by Israel.
In February 2025, the U.S. State Department informed congressional foreign affairs committees that Israel planned to acquire 2,166 of the bombs. Earlier, after Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, Boeing accelerated shipments of about 1,000 units to the country.
The Boeing contract was not included in a State Department announcement last week describing a separate $151 million emergency foreign military sale to Israel. That transaction covers 12,000 BLU-110 1,000-pound bomb casings produced by Repkon USA.
The agreement comes as Israel continues to rely heavily on foreign suppliers for certain categories of weapons. Data from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute shows that Israel ranked as the world’s 14th largest arms importer between 2021 and 2025, with imports increasing 12 percent compared with the previous five-year period.
The United States is Israel’s largest supplier of weapons, accounting for 68 percent of its arms imports. Germany is the second-largest supplier, with 31 percent.
