■ Australia has finalised contracts for its Boeing C-17 Globemaster III and Lockheed Martin AGM-158 Joint Air to Surface Stand-off (JASSM) missile acquisitions. The four-aircraft C-17 deal is worth $780 million, with the first aircraft to be delivered in November. Australia has also signed an $80.7 million support contract to link the aircraft's service support to the USAF's Globemaster III sustainment partnership programme. The JASSM order is worth $87.4 million. Deliveries are due to be completed by December 2011 to equip its upgraded Boeing F/A-18A/B Hornet fighters.
■ Poland wants to buy two AAI RQ-7B Shadow 200 unmanned air vehicle systems for intelligence gathering under a proposed $73 million deal notified to US Congress on 27 July. The purchase would include 10 air vehicles (eight with electro-optic payloads and two as spares), four ground control stations, two portable ground data terminals, two catapult launchers, communications equipment and 14 unarmoured ground vehicles.
■ The US Congress has been notified of the potential $400 million remanufacture of 12 Saudi Arabian Boeing AH-64As to the AH-64D Apache Longbow standard.
Source: Flight International
