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State Dept.
Approves Pakistan
Arms Request.
By
DOUG CAMERON
April 6, 2015 6:12 p.m. ET
The State Department has approved Pakistan's
request to buy almost $1 billion in U.S.-made
attack helicopters, missiles and other
equipment aimed at fighting insurgents in the
country's mountainous north and west
regions.
U.S. defense companies are engaged in a
three-way tussle with Russia and China to sell
weapons to Pakistan, complicated by the need
to avoid upsetting neighbor India and its even
larger arms' import market.
The Pentagon said Monday that Pakistan had
requested 15 AH-1Z Viper helicopters made by
the Bell arm of Textron Inc., as well as 1,000
Hellfire missiles produced by Lockheed Martin
Corp. and a host of other communications and
training equipment with a total value of $952
million, according to a notification to Congress,
which needs to approve any sale.
Any deal would be structured as a foreign
military sale between the two governments.
"This proposed sale of helicopters and weapon
systems will provide Pakistan with military
capabilities in support of its counterterrorism
and counterinsurgency operations in South
Asia," said the Defense Security Cooperation
Agency, which oversees U.S. military exports.
Write to Doug Cameron at
[email protected]
State Dept. Approves Pakistan Arms Request - WSJ
Approves Pakistan
Arms Request.
By
DOUG CAMERON
April 6, 2015 6:12 p.m. ET
The State Department has approved Pakistan's
request to buy almost $1 billion in U.S.-made
attack helicopters, missiles and other
equipment aimed at fighting insurgents in the
country's mountainous north and west
regions.
U.S. defense companies are engaged in a
three-way tussle with Russia and China to sell
weapons to Pakistan, complicated by the need
to avoid upsetting neighbor India and its even
larger arms' import market.
The Pentagon said Monday that Pakistan had
requested 15 AH-1Z Viper helicopters made by
the Bell arm of Textron Inc., as well as 1,000
Hellfire missiles produced by Lockheed Martin
Corp. and a host of other communications and
training equipment with a total value of $952
million, according to a notification to Congress,
which needs to approve any sale.
Any deal would be structured as a foreign
military sale between the two governments.
"This proposed sale of helicopters and weapon
systems will provide Pakistan with military
capabilities in support of its counterterrorism
and counterinsurgency operations in South
Asia," said the Defense Security Cooperation
Agency, which oversees U.S. military exports.
Write to Doug Cameron at
[email protected]
State Dept. Approves Pakistan Arms Request - WSJ
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