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Monday, October 08, 2007

New Australian fighters to get top U.S. weapons

The Bush administration has proposed to sell Australia a weapons package valued at up to $617 million for a new fleet of 24 Boeing Co F/A-18E/F Super Hornet aircraft.

Notification of the proposed deal was sent to Congress Thursday by the Pentagon's Defense Security Cooperation Agency, which handles U.S. government-to-government arms sales.

Australia is seeking 43 Raytheon Co. -built AIM-9X Sidewinder air combat missiles, 50 AGM-154 air-to-surface Joint Standoff Weapons and 18 AN/ASQ-228 Advanced Targeting Forward-Looking Infrared pods, the announcement said.

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