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Greece to buy 12 helicopters from Boeing and 40 from NH industries

Athens, Greece - The decision has been voted yesterday by the parliament

It has been ratified by the Greek parliament the will of Athens' government to reinforce its own aerial defense with the massive purchase of helicopters from the American Boeing and the European consortium NHI. As already AVIONEWS had anticipated the last week Greece has had to postpone after the 2004 the order for 60 Eurofighter Typhoon because of problems in allocating the huge sum (approximately...

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Rome, Italy, 11/26/2002 17:41
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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