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U.S. State Department Approves More Than $7 Billion In Arms Sales to Israel

Frank Wolfe

Friday, February 7th, 2025

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U.S. State Department Approves More Than $7 Billion In Arms Sales to Israel

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The U.S. State Department has approved more than $7 billion in arms sales to Israel, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) said on Friday. The sales include $660 million for 3,000 Lockheed Martin [LMT] AGM-114 Hellfire air-to-ground missiles and nearly $6.8 billion for 2,800 500-pound MK 82 bombs, 2,166 Boeing [BA] GBU-39/B Small Diameter Bombs, 13,000 2,000 pound MK 84 Boeing Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAM) with Strategic Anti-Jam Beamforming Receiver Y-Code (SABR-Y) guidance kits, 3,475 GPS-guided BLU-109 "bunker busters"…

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