Sentences with phrase «purchase of some fighter jets»

«The matter did not even come up for discussion during the talks [with the Pakistani government],» Karunasena Hettiarachchi, Defence Secretary, told The Hindu, adding that his government was still considering the purchase of fighter jets.

The Muslim Rights Concern, MURIC, has warned the National Assembly to halt any plan to impeach President Muhammadu Buhari over the withdrawal of $ 462 million for the purchase of fighter jets from the United States, US.

Not exact matches

Canada announced earlier this month that it would scrap a $ 5.2 billion purchase of new fighter jets from Boeing and purchase Australian jets instead.

Once again this afternoon the New Democrats wondered when the government would hold an open competition to purchase a new fighter jet and, once again, it was Rona Ambrose's duty to stand and attempt to fashion an assurance of some kind.

'' It is also clear, as has been shown so far by the outcome of the panel probing past arms deals, that the purchase of substandard weapons apparently resulted from the massive corruption that enveloped the deals, the kind of horrifying graft that saw the purchase of refurbished choppers that lacked rotors, or fighter jets that could not be deployed to the theatre of war because they were not up to par.

Presidency source said Buhari used the avenue to explain why he gave approval for purchase of $ 496million worth fighter jets without budgetary allocation.

President Buhari was said to have arbitrarily approved the sum of $ 496 million for the purchase of Super Tucano fighter jets for the Nigerian Military without consent of the National Assembly.

The F - 35 was billed as a fighter jet that could do almost everything the U.S. military desired but has turned out to be one of the greatest boondoggles in recent military purchasing history

The company found itself in an awkward position this week after Bloomberg reported that Chief Executive Officer Dennis Muilenburg had listened in on a phone call last month between [teh Donald] and the Air Force general managing purchases of Lockheed Martin Corp.'s F - 35 fighter jets.