Category: Industry
Pentagon’s bid to use war funding to buy AH-64s, F-35s rejected
Lawmakers have rejected the Pentagon’s request to buy eight F-35s and 21 additional AH-64s by utilizing as much as $1.5 billion in war spending.
Obama administration could soon clear sale of P-3s to Vietnam
United States is moving closer to lifting an arms embargo on Vietnam and the P-3 maritime patrol aircraft is on the top of the list of things cleared for sale.
Pentagon’s offer to sell Apaches to Iraq has expired
U.S. Army Security Assistance Command spokeswoman Kim Gillespie told Defense News that a letter of offer to sell 24 AH-64s to Iraq has expired in August.
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Second-hand F-16s a challenge to CATIC
Ma Zhiping, the general manager of China National Aero-Technology Import & Export Corporation, said in an article in China Aviation News that as F-16s are being decommissioned world wide, refurbished Fighting Falcons could be sold to China’s traditional markets.
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