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State Department Approves Over $7 Billion In Helicopter Sales To Saudi Arabia And The UAE

Thursday, December 8th, 2016

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State Department Approves Over $7 Billion In Helicopter Sales To Saudi Arabia And The UAE

U. S. Army CH-47 Chinook D/F Photo: Boeing

The State Department approved two Foreign Military Sales (FMS) requests worth a total of $7 billion to Saudi Arabia for CH-47F Chinook Cargo Helicopters and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for Apache AH-64E Helicopters.The Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) notified Congress of the potential sales on Dec. 7.Saudi Arabia requested $3.51 billion in 48 CH-47F Chinook Cargo Helicopters, 112 T55-GA-714A engines (96 installed and 16 spares), 116 Embedded Global Positioning System (GPS) Inertial Navigation Systems (EGI) (96 installed and 20…

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