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US Contractor Pleads Guilty to Helping China Build Attack Helicopter

Posted June 28th, 2012 at 7:30 pm (UTC-5)
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A subsidiary of U.S. defense contractor United Technologies Corporation, or UTC, pleaded guilty Thursday to criminal charges of selling China hardware to help it build a military attack helicopter. The Justice Department charged UTC’s Canadian subsidiary, Pratt & Whitney Canada, with selling China hardware for its Z-10 attack helicopter, violating the Arms Export Control Act. […]

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UN Congo Mission to Lose Indian Helicopters

Posted June 15th, 2011 at 11:10 am (UTC-5)
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India is getting set to withdraw its Mi-35 attack helicopters from the United Nations mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The expected departure of the four aircraft early next month has sparked fears the U.N. mission will be less well 1equipped to safeguard civilians, especially in remote and volatile areas of eastern Congo. Indian […]

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