Lockheed focused on South Korean jet re-tender

Lockheed Martin said it will continue with its bid to land a major South Korean jet fighter contract when the deal is re-tendered.

The deal, in which Seoul required a contractor to deliver 60 jets over five years beginning in 2017, was a race between the Boeing's F-15 Silent Eagle, Lockheed Martin's F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter and EADS' Eurofighter Typhoon.

Lockheed, ahead of EADS, was thought to have been nudged out of the deal by Boeing's Silent Eagle.

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