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Boeing May Lose Canada’s Super Hornet Order, Yet Jet’s Outlook is Bright
Two U.S. Navy F/A-18E Super Hornet participate in an air power demonstration in the Pacific Ocean on April 24, 2013.

    By Marcus Weisgerber

December 5, 2017


The past year has brought a trade dispute with Ottawa, a big deal with the U.S. Navy, and improved prospects elsewhere.

If Canada scraps its planned $5.2 billion purchase of new F/A-18E/F Super Hornets and buys used Australian fighter jets instead, it will be a blow to Boeing and the Trump administration. Yet the outlook for the American-made warplane has brightened this year.

http://www.defenseone.com/business/2017/12/boeing-may-lose-canadas-super-hornet-order-yet-jets-outlook-bright/144329/?oref=d-river