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Australia Announces Plans To Buy 12 Growlers

Defense Daily Staff

Monday, May 6th, 2013

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The Australian government said Friday 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. Growler in the foreground flying beside a Super Hornet. Photo by Boeing. “There are still risks associated with (the F-35) and we're not prepared to take…

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