EADS tanker contract blow

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Series Details 11.9.08
Publication Date 11/09/2008
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Article reports that EADS suffered a fresh setback on the 10 September 2008 in its bid to break into the lucrative US defence market after the Pentagon delayed a $35bn refuelling tanker contract the European group had been awarded earlier in 2008
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ESO: Background information: US to reopen EADS tanker contract http://www.europeansources.info/record/us-to-reopen-eads-tanker-contract/
US: Department of Defense: News Article, 10.9.08: Gates Cancels Air-Refueling Solicitation http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=51099
BBC News, 10.9.08: US cancels air tanker competition http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7608930.stm
France24, 10.9.08: Pentagon calls off tanker competition http://www.france24.com/en/20080910-pentagon-robert-gates-cancels-tanker-competition-usa-airbus-boeing-aerospace&navi=ECONOMIE
Deutsche Welle, 11.9.08: EADS Distressed by Pentagon's Contract About-Face http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,3636971,00.html
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