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Kuwait to Buy 16 Attack Helicoptors
published 07:17 PM - AUGUST 31, 2002 Eastern Time
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) _ Kuwait will buy 16 attack helicopters from Boeing in a deal worth $886 million, the official Kuwaiti News Agency reported Saturday.
The deal was signed in Kuwait on Saturday by Defense Minister Sheik Jaber Mubarak Al Hamad and U.S. Ambassador Richard Jones, the agency said in a report posted on its Web site.
In April, the Pentagon announced plans to sell 16 AH-64D Apache attack helicopters to Kuwait. It said that dealt was valued at $2.1 billion, and was to include four spare engines, four Hellfire missile launchers, 288 Hellfire missiles and other missiles and equipment.
On Saturday, Sheik Jaber said the contract provides for the training in the United States of 48 Kuwaiti pilots and technicians, as well as the supply of spare parts and missiles.
Kuwait will receive the first delivery of helicopters in early 2005, Sheik Jaber said.
The helicopters will contribute significantly to Kuwait's ability to defend itself, the agency quoted Jones as saying.
Kuwait was invaded by Iraq and occupied for seven months in 1990-91. After a U.S.-led coalition of forces liberated the country, its government signed mutual defense pacts with the United States, Britain and Russia
Everyone gettin ready to fight looks like.. ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
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