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State Department Approves $889 Million In Military Equipment To Morocco and Qatar

Thursday, December 8th, 2016

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The State Department approved three Foreign Military Sales (FMS) requests worth a total of $889 million to Morocco for Tow 2A missiles and Qatar for C-17 spare engines and continued logistics support services.The Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) notified Congress of the potential sales on Dec. 7.Morocco requested $108 million in 1,200 TOW 2A Radio Frequency (RF) missiles (BGM-71-4B-RF) and 14 TOW 2A RF missiles (Fly-to-Buy Lot Acceptance Missiles), U.S. government and contractor engineering, technical and logistics support services; and…

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