
The State Department has cleared the Czech Republic to buy more than $1 billion in Bell [TXT] AH-1Z attack helicopters and Sikorsky [LMT] UH-60 Black Hawks. Larger of the two separate authorizations, announced May 6 by the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, is for $800 million. That will buy the Czech government 12 Sikorsky UH-60M Black Hawk’s — the most up-to-date version of the ubiquitous utility helicopter — eight General Electric [GE] T700 engines and a laundry list of associated sensors,…