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Textron To Build Armored Military Vehicles For Iraq

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Friday, June 4th, 2010

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Textron's [TXT] Marine & Land Systems said it will build 80 armored military vehicles for the Iraqi Ministry of the Interior for the Iraqi Federal Police under an approximately $94 million U.S. Foreign Military Sales program. Seventy-two of the 80 vehicles will be configured as Armored Personnel Carriers (APC), while the remaining eight will be in the standard U. S. Army M1117 Armored Security Vehicle (ASV) configuration employed as command and control vehicles. All of the vehicles to be delivered…

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