Britain will buy 22 Chinook helicopters from Boeing Co. as part of $1.5 billion investment in new equipment for troops in Afghanistan, the government announced Tuesday.
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Defense Secretary Bob Ainsworth said the three-year investment plan will be funded by cutting other parts of the military budget. He said the refocused spending will provide troops in Afghanistan with more body armor, tactical radios and night vision goggles, better funding for gathering intelligence, and superior training and equipment for pinpointing roadside bombs.
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Britain currently has 48 heavy-lift, twin-propeller Chinooks. The first 10 of the new orders are expected to be deployed to Afghanistan by 2013.
xwizard wrote:Good stuff indeed for those on the ground in Afganistan and other major hotspots in the future.
But WTF from the Seattle times - a newspaper in one of the world's top aviation regions who have no doubt covered a few aviation stories in their time....."twin propeller"?!?!?!
I didn't even see that before!
BCA wrote:xwizard wrote:Good stuff indeed for those on the ground in Afganistan and other major hotspots in the future.
But WTF from the Seattle times - a newspaper in one of the world's top aviation regions who have no doubt covered a few aviation stories in their time....."twin propeller"?!?!?!
