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Northrop Grumman and BAe to make US commercial airplanes safer

Washington, USA - They will have to show a concrete project to provide American carriers' planes of anti-missile self-protection systems by 18 months

US Government would have selected the aerospace companies to be entrusted the development and the testing of a new self-protection system, to be devoted to national airlines’ commercial airplanes in order to face the threat of MANPADS (Man Portable Air Defence Systems). It deals with BAe and Northrop Grumman, which would have recently signed agreements with a value of about USD 45m, in order to show c...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 102246
Rome, Italy, 08/26/2004 13:49
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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