Posted on 08/31/2002 7:19:39 PM PDT by knighthawk
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates- Kuwait will buy 16 attack helicopters from Boeing in a deal worth $886 million, the official Kuwaiti News Agency reported Saturday.
The deal was signed in Kuwait on Saturday by Defense Minister Sheik Jaber Mubarak Al Hamad and U.S. Ambassador Richard Jones, the agency said in a report posted on its Web site.
In April, the Pentagon announced plans to sell 16 AH-64D Apache attack helicopters to Kuwait. It said that dealt was valued at $2.1 billion, and was to include four spare engines, four Hellfire missile launchers, 288 Hellfire missiles and other missiles and equipment.
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"On Saturday, Sheik Jaber said the contract provides for the training in the United States of 48 Kuwaiti pilots and technicians, as well as the supply of spare parts and missiles."
My husband was a pilot in the Navy, circa Viet Nam. After his 2 tours in SE Asia, he had shore duty as an instructer pilot in Pensacola. He trained Kuwaiti pilots as well as training our guys. He enjoyed it, but the smell in the cockpit was unpleasant.;o)
I also want to thank you for the pings while I was away on vacation. It sure saved me a lot of precious time on the computer! ;o)
Boeing makes money which translates to jobs and taxes and Kuwait gets combat equipment that isn't a threat to us or anyone else for that matter.
Best of all Boeing will probably get a maintenance contract (large and profitable) and maybe the Kuwaitees will be able to firgure out what's wrong with the design so that we can develope an improved platform that actually works
I think the Palestinians were all tossed out after the Gulf War, after they displayed strong pro-Iraq feelings
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