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 et pendant ce temps, les affaires continuent...

Jan 23/08 : Taos Industries in Madison, AL received a $5.6 million firm-fixed-price contract for Non Standard Ammunition for the Government of Afghanistan. These include PG-7VM 70.5mm rockets, 12.7×108 mm links for heavy machine guns, and 12.7×108mm PPL (the PPL round is a squib cartridge used to generate gas pressure to forward the chamber one round). The contract has a “200 percent option,” which means it could be worth up to $16.8 million.

pendant ce temps, les Talibans achètent des RPG-27, arme redoutable qui est partie pour garder sa suprématie jusqu’en 2014 au moins !

Taos est la firme incriminée dans la "perte" de milliers d’armes et d’avoir revendu celles piquées au Kosovo et transportées par Victor Bout. For example, Amnesty alleges that Taos first subcontracted to a Moldovan/Ukrainian company, Aerocom, to transport from Bosnia to Iraq 99 metric tonnes of arms for Iraqi security forces. The sales for the year ending Jun. 31, 2005 were mostly for Kalashnikov rifles. 

An October 2006 report by the U.S. Special Inspector General to Iraq calculates that serial numbers were logged for only 2.7 percent of the 370,000 infantry weapons supplied to the Iraqi security forces under U.S. government contracts.

Work will be performed at Madison, AL, with an estimated completion date of March 31/09. Two bids were solicited and one bid was received by the Army Contracting Command at Rock Island Arsenal, IL (W52P1J-08-C-0049).

Dec 8/08 : Top American ammunition supplier Alliant Techsystems, Inc in Independence, MO recently received an $86.7 million firm-fixed-price contract for 94.6 million rounds of various nonstandard ammunition for the Afghanistan national Army and Afghanistan National Police. Work will be performed in Independence, MO with an estimated completion date of Dec 31/09. Bids solicited were via the Web and 14 bids were received by Army Research Sustainment Command at Rock Island, IL (W52P1J-09-C-0007).

Aliant a avoué s’être enrichie grâce à la guerre au Kosovo : Simply put, Alliant-Tech profits from war. When Paul David Miller, CEO of Alliant-Tech, was asked about the company’s 1999 profits, he said that for certain "business" reasons, profits were not as high as desired. However, he did admit that the Kosovo war was quite profitable.