Showing posts with label eurofighter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label eurofighter. Show all posts
Monday, August 3, 2009
U.K. To Stop Eurofighter Typhoon Orders
From ELP Defens(c)e Blog:
The U.K. has stated it will stop ordering Eurofighter Typhoons. Part of the deal drawn up years ago was that all country partners were to buy a set number. The U.K. is stopping now before its set order number. There are statements from the other partners that the U.K. must honor the deal. However, what is one to do?
The U.K. hardly has enough cash for airlift, helicopters and navy ships. The Army, which does most of the work in the war, is underfunded. This is probably the end of the discussion on the Eurofighter Typhoon. There just is no money.
Gordon Brown repeatedly tried to pull out of the Eurofighter deal while he was chancellor but Britain itself insisted when the contract was negotiated in the early 1990s that each country must pay for all the aircraft it had committed to, regardless of whether or not it took delivery of them.
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My Comment: ELP Defens(c)e blog puts it bluntly .... "There just is no money".
Friday, July 31, 2009
Eurofighter Deal To Be Inked: Sources
A Eurofighter takes part in an airshow in Vigo, northwestern Spain. The four partner countries in the Eurofighter consortium were on Friday due to sign a contract on production of the first part of the third tranche of the aircraft, sources said Thursday. (AFP/File/Miguel Riopa)From Yahoo News/AFP:
MILAN (AFP) – The four partner countries in the Eurofighter consortium were on Friday due to sign a contract on production of the first part of the third tranche of the aircraft, sources said Thursday.
"The contract will be signed tomorrow (Friday) in Germany," said an Italian defence ministry source.
"It will be signed at the Eurofighter consortium headquarters at Hallbergmoos, near Munich," an industry source added.
The contract, worth about eight billion euros (11.2 billion dollars), was for 112 of the 236 planes in the third tranche, the source added.
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More News On The Eurofighter
Eurofighter deal to be signed Friday -- Reuters
BAE puts faith in fighter planes -- The Telegraph
RAF Chief: 'Govt To Halve Warplane Order' -- Sky News
UK to sign up for new Eurofighters -- Financial Times
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