The U.S. Navy on Monday said it had ordered 210 F/A-18E/F Super
Hornet attack jets worth $8.5 billion from BOEING CO. and would
pay Boeing $979 million to develop and demonstrate a new
variant, the EA-18G, with upgraded weapons. The Navy had
previously ordered 222 Super Hornets under a 5-year deal that
expires in 2004 and had been expected to buy a total of at
least 548 by 2010, according to Boeing's Web site. Deliveries
under the latest contract will run from 2007 through 2011 at an
average rate of 42 a year from Boeing's assembly line in St.
Louis. The Navy has an option to buy up to six more jets per
year.
(Reuters 06:26 PM ET 12/29/2003)

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