Boeing optimistic on a Super Hornet sale to Middle East

A Boeing executive in charged of the Super Hornet and Growler program says his company is optimistic that a Middle East order for the carrier-borne fighter could come as early as the second quarter.

F-18Fs of VFA-11 in flight over the Red Sea in 2012
By U.S. Navy photo by Lt. Cmdr. Josh Hammond [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Dan Gillian added that Boeing will have to make a decision around June to decide whether to keep the production line opened after current orders run out at the end of 2017.

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