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Royal Thai Army To Buy Lakota Helicopters To Be Built In Mississippi

/ June 14, 2013 at 10:55 PM
The Royal Thai Army plans to buy six LUH-72A Lakota helicopters that would be built on the same production line as the Army's Lakotas in Columbus, MS, marking the first foreign military sale of the aircraft, according to industry sources and a letter from the Pentagon acquisition chief to the Royal Thai Army's commander-in-chief. "I am pleased Thailand has selected the LUH-72A Lakota helicopter under the U.S. Government's foreign military sales program to meet its light utility helicopter requirement," Kendall...

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