It is good news that this contract will provide work for some British manufacturers and their workforce.
The whole arms-trade business is not always conducted in the clearest of waters, and can be questioned on any number of moral or ethical levels. In many areas where such trade is carried out, it must be extremely difficult to stay on the right side of every moral and ethical business benchmark. But we need our factories and people to have work, and the defence industry is one of our biggest foreign earners. In a nice world you might choose to do things differently. In this one, well you have to do what you have to do. Always the case, and an even more stark reality right now.
Long may the Hawk continue to survive and prosper. A win in the US would be a real boost. The competition is certainly hotting up though.