War Profiteering As Usual

Israeli Black Hawk over Gaza

 

M2A3 firing missile in Syria, 2022 

A couple of War Department requests for spare parts, recently come to light, exemplify Ametek Rotron's continuing war profiteering and complicity in the Gaza genocide. They confirm that Woodstock's Rotron is the sole source of critical components for the Black Hawk helicopter and the Bradley M2A3 fighting vehicle.

 A December 2022 solicitation from the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Aviation department requests spare parts for the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter and its sister models, which are intensively used by Israel on Gaza and elsewhere as well as by the US in many theaters. 

More recently, this November, DLA Land solicited 43 circulating fans whose "end application" (in Pentagon-speak) is the M2A3. "This is a Sole Source procurement to Rotron Incorporated." 

Sometimes people ask: what useful, civilian products could Rotron produce when they finally decide to put their great skills to peaceful uses instead of war machines? Well, two contracts this year provide examples of constructive devices they already make -- part of the 20% of Rotron's business which is non-military. The Federal Aviation Administration ordered components for weather radar. And NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) ordered spare parts for its research vessels. Of course one wonders whether these laudable initiatives might fall victim to the Trump regime's war on climate science. In general, desperately needed climate research and the green energy revolution require many systems for electronics cooling which Ametek Rotron is well situated to provide.