Boeing Exec: South Korea F-15 Win Came Just In Time

By John Liang / April 19, 2002 at 5:00 AM
South Korea's selection of Boeing's F-15 fighter came not a moment too soon, Boeing Military Aircraft and Missile Systems President and CEO Jerry Daniels said today. "From a morale standpoint, nothing could have been worse" if the company had lost the $4 billion competition to rival Dassault, Daniels said at a press conference from St. Louis, MO. The contract win, announced earlier today in Seoul, is key for Boeing in the wake of its loss of the Joint Strike Fighter...

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