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Taiwan will develop 66 new XT-5 planes instead of buying M-346s by Leonardo

Rome, Italy - The Italian manufacturer loses the possibility of more than 1 billion euros' worth of orders

Sixty-six trainer planes for Taiwan will be developed by the National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology (CSIST), a research institute based in Taoyuan, in the North of the Asian Country. Therefore Leonardo could have lost the possibility to provide its Alenia Aermacchi M-346 Master airplanes, an order that could bring more than 1 billion euros. Anyway the decision of Taiwan will not affect...

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Rome, Italy, 02/10/2017 15:42
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