28 February 2012

News Story: Alenia Warns U.S. Over C-27J Sales

C-27J Spartan

By VAGO MURADIAN

Marcus Weisgerber in Washington and Tom Kington in Rome contributed to this report.

SINGAPORE — In what analysts see as an unprecedented move, Alenia Aermacchi, the Italian maker of the C-27J, is warning the U.S. government that it will refuse to support the aircraft it sold to the United States if the U.S. resells them to other nations.

The move caught some U.S. officials by surprise and threatens to undermine American efforts to resell the planes on the international market, most likely to Australia, Canada or Taiwan.

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