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FARA Offering by AVX/L3 Made to Satisfy Requirements from Get Go, L3 Says

FARA Offering by AVX/L3 Made to Satisfy Requirements from Get Go, L3 Says
Artist rendering of the AVX/L3 coaxial compound helicopter design. (AVX/L3 photo)

PARIS AIR SHOW--Now the president of L3 Technologies' [LLL] surveillance and strike systems sector, Luke Savoie said that he remembers an Army OH-58 Kiowa Warrior crew member firing an M4 carbine out of the window of the aircraft during U.S. operations in Iraq more than a decade ago--a decision made to avoid possible collateral damage from the helicopter's Hydra-70, 2.75 inch diameter rockets, he said. Savoie said that he was then an Air Force Special Operations Command AC-130 aircraft commander and…

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