Daily News | Local Boeing plant in line for German helicopter deal valued at over $5 billion: report
Tony Britt of Oxford exits the cockpit of a Chinook at Boeing in Ridley Park, which produces five Chinooks and three V-22 Ospreys each month.The German government plans to buy 60 new Chinook CH-47F military helicopters built at Boeing’s Ridley Park, Delaware County assembly plant for about 5 billion euros , according to news media in the European country.
The paper said the government of chancellor Olaf Scholz expects to formally present the purchase plan to the national parliament next week. Boeing spokesman Brett Anker said comments on the possible purchase would have to come from the German government, adding that “no formal announcement has been made.”NATO members that have sent weapons to Ukraine to resist a Russian invasion launched in February. Germany is among the countries that has aided Ukraine.
Defense minister Christine Lambrecht plans to formally present the Boeing purchase to the national parliament next week, Bild reported. Leaders of the prime minister’s Social Democratic party are supportive, and have noted the Chinooks also have non-wartime uses, such as carrying disaster relief supplies.
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