"Larry Dighera" wrote in message
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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.

So the original 526 already have adds.

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)

Mo

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