Eurofighter acaba de anunciar que Omán acaba de adquirir un a docena de Eurofighter junto a ocho Hawk AJT.
Doce son los ejempalres del Eurofighter adquiridos por Omán así como ocho entrenadores BAE Systems Hawk AJT.
Las entregas de todos estos aviones, que montará BAE Systems en su factoría de Warton, comenzarán en 2017. Aunque ni desde Eurofighter ni Cassidian han dado cifras exáctas del contrato, este se etima supondrá unos ingresos de 2.000 millones de libras esterlinas a lo largo de los próximos 30 años.
Con Omán son ya siete los paises que han adquirido el Eurofighter (España, Alemania, Austria, Italia, Reino Unido y Arabai Saudí son los otros), Hasta la fecha se han enregado casi 350 unidades a estos seis países, con 719 comprometidos en contratos de adquisición, de los que se han adquirido en firme 571. 20 unidades lo operan en sus fuerzas aéreas y habiéndo acuumulado ya más de 160.000 horas de vuelo entre todas.
Many, many moons ago I got a job as a lowly leaflet boy for British Aerospace. I went to two arms fairs and haednd out leaflets to various passers-by extolling the virtues of the Rapier anti-aircraft missile system. I met several arms salesmen, and without wanting to sound dramatic, I thought the immorality of their trade had clearly entered their souls. They all drank heavily, and were morally dessicated – to my innocent eyes, selling weapons was clearly a Mephistophelean proposition. In a business which covers its immorality in a welter of euphemisms and produces nothing that adds to the sum total of the economic wealth of the planet (to put it crudely, a tank does nothing but be a drain on the state and the taxpayer during its time in service; A tractor produces many times more value than its cost of production over its lifetime) is it really surprising that corruption should lie at the very core of the way it does business? And should it surprise us, given the money to be made in this vastly immoral business, that the canker of this industry should infect the political process of the nations that sell weapons? As Eisenhower warned us, countries never civilianise the military-industrial complex. Rather, it militarises the state.
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