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Australians Could Accelerate Global Hawk Buy By Three Years

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Friday, June 24th, 2011

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Due to a growing operational demand to further secure its coastline borders, the Australian military may accelerate the timing of a potential RQ-4 Global Hawk buy by three years, possibly inking a deal by 2016, a senior industry official told Defense Daily. The long-term Australian defense spending blueprint, known as the Austrialian Defence Capability Plan, issued in 2009 discusses a "procurement profile" of seven Broad Area Maritime Surveillance [BAMS] aircraft and two ground control stations, the official said in a…

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