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Air Force

Tanker Overturn Would Be Disaster, Advocates of European Cooperation Say

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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

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By Emelie Rutherford If the Air Force's contested tanker contract with Northrop Grumman [NOC] and a European partner is overturned, it will be a "disaster" for efforts to accelerate cooperation between the United States and Europe on defense technologies, a British proponent of enhanced ties predicted yesterday. "If the tanker deal were to be torpedoed by Boeing, [BA] the response here was that would be a disaster," said Giles Merritt of the Security and Defence Agenda, a Brussels-based security and…

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