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Pakistan receives first of eight free US military aircraft
Jan 18, 2007, 14:55 GMT
Islamabad - The first of eight P3-C Orion reconnaissance planes being supplied free of charge by the United States to Pakistan landed Thursday at a base in Karachi, the navy said.
The four-engine all-weather aircraft is designed to support anti- submarine and anti-ship operations and can carry a Harpoon missile capable of sinking vessels.
The consignment worth an estimated one billion US dollars is expected to secure the entire length of Pakistan's coastal border on the Arabian Sea.
One more plane is due to arrive in February and the rest will follow during the next three years, a naval spokesman told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.
© 2007 dpa - Deutsche Presse-AgenturCOMMENT
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