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2nd Apr 2009, 17:03

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Ian Corrigible

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I wouldn't worry about the loss of business for our industry. Baghdad's current shopping list (funded by us) includes:

36 F-16s
36 AT-6B Texan IIs
20 T-6As
50 407s (up from the original 24)
140 M1 Abrams (rumored to be doubling to 280)
400 Strykers
565 120mm mortars
665 81mm mortars
$150M worth of M4/M16/M203s
Plus some LockMart (sorry, KAI) T-50s...

Still, on the bright side those 22 Mi-17s are being purchased at a unit cost of only $3.6M. So if we bought 28 for the POTUS, we'd save $12.9 Bn of the $13 Bn that the VH-71 Presidential Helicopter program is costing us...

I/C

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