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SEOUL — Three companies have submitted bids for a contract worth $6.9 billion to supply 60 fighter aircraft to South Korea, the country’s arms procurement agency said June 18.
Boeing's F-15 Silent Eagle, Lockheed Martin's F-35 Lightning II and the Eurofighter Typhoon will vie for the order, the Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) said in a statement on its website.
June 18 was the bidding deadline, with the winner to be selected in October. The contract is worth 8 trillion won ($6.9 billion).
DAPA also plans to spend some 1.8 trillion won on 36 attack helicopters, with Boeing's Apache, Eurocopter's Tiger and Turkey's T129 thought to be in competition.
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