Kamfanin Northrop Grumman shi ne kadai ya bayar da kwangilar aikin soja a jiya kan dala biliyan 85, bayan haka Boeing ta sanar da cewa ba za ta shiga cikin shirin Pentagon don maye gurbin tsufa Minuteman III makami mai linzami na ballistic (ICBM).
"Boeing ta ji takaici mun kasa gabatar da tayin," in ji Elizabeth Silva, mai magana da yawun kamfanin a cikin wata sanarwa. "Boeing ya ci gaba da tallafawa wani canji na dabarun saye wanda zai kawo mafi kyawun masana'antu ga wannan fifiko na kasa da kuma nuna darajar mai biyan harajin Amurka."
Rundunar sojin saman Amurka ta ce hakika ta samu tayi daya kacal, tana mai jaddada cewa za ta ci gaba da "tattaunawa mai karfi da inganci," a cewar Bloomberg, in ji kakakin rundunar Cara Bousie.
Sanarwar ta Boeing ba ta zo da mamaki ba, kamar yadda a cikin watan Yuli babban kamfanin jiragen sama ya yi nuni da cewa zai iya janyewa daga takarar kwangilar saboda rashin "filin wasa don yin gasa mai adalci," da kuma gazawar rundunar sojojin sama wajen gyara dabarun sayan. Kamfanin ya nuna cewa abokin hamayyar Northrop na Virginia ya sami ingantaccen masana'antar sarrafa roka Orbital ATK, wanda a yanzu aka sani da Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems, wanda ya ba shi fa'ida.
Orbital ATK yana ɗaya daga cikin masu kera Amurka guda biyu na ingantattun injunan roka da ake buƙata don sarrafa ICBM, gami da Minuteman III. A halin yanzu, ɗayan furodusan, Aerojet Rocketdyne, shima yana cikin ƙungiyar masu samar da kayayyaki ta Northrop.
Boeing ya kuma so shigar da takardar hadin gwiwa tare da Northrop, amma karshen ya yi watsi da shawarar kuma bai hada da abokin hamayyarsa a cikin jerin manyan masu kwangilar shirin na Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) ba.
Tsarin makami mai linzami na Minuteman III, wanda ya fara aiki a shekarun 1970, yana daya daga cikin kashin bayan gwajin makaman nukiliya na Amurka. A halin yanzu Amurka na sabunta makamanta na nukiliya, kuma ana sa ran za ta kashe sama da dala tiriliyan 1.2 cikin shekaru talatin masu zuwa.
