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For a couple of years, Italy has been leasing a Gulfstream III configured for SIGINT duties from Lockheed Martin. Defense News reported that a new lease will be in force till spring of 2016.
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Canada is to terminate a contract with Thales Canada for two Ground Master 400 air defense radars. Documents show costs had risen to more than $78 million by 2013 and both sides decided in February to end the deal.
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Lockheed Martin believes Britain’s C-130Js could get a second-role as maritime patrol aircraft after undergoing conversion into SC-130Js.
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United Technologies Corp has shortlisted Lockheed Martin and Textron as potential bidders for Sikorsky Aircraft.
By Photographer’s Mate Airman Lowell Whitman (https://navcms.news.navy.mil/) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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The two new KC-30s ordered by the Royal Australian Air Force will not be new aircraft, instead two A330s from Qantas will be converted.
By Paul Spijkers [GFDL or GFDL], via Wikimedia Commons
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