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Australia Announces Plans To Buy 12 Growlers

Gally Articola

Friday, May 10th, 2013

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The Australian government said that it will purchase 12 Boeing [BA]-built EA-18G Growlers electronic attack aircraft. Defense Minister Stephen Smith, in rolling out the country’s national security strategy, said the decision to buy the Growlers was in part based on accounting for any additional setbacks in the Pentagon’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program. “There are still risks associated with (the F-35) and we're not prepared to take the risk of a gap in our air combat capability or superiority,” Smith…

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