Boeing gets $4 bn US Army helicopter deal: US aerospace giant Boeing announced Tuesday it has received a multi-year $4 billion order from the US Army for 177 more CH-47F Chinook helicopters.
The five-year deal includes an option for the army to buy 38 additional Chinooks, a multi-mission, twin-engine transport helicopter, Boeing said in a statement.
"This order would eventually bring the Army's CH-47F total procurement close to its target of 464 aircraft, including 24 to replace peacetime attrition aircraft," the Chicago-based company said, noting the army currently has 241 of the F-model aircraft.
Deliveries are to begin in 2015.
