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Seahawk fires Penguin
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Kongsberg recently announced a signed contract from the Turkish Navy worth roughly MNOK 210 (about $41 million). In return, the Norwegian firm will provide an unspecified number of Penguin short-range anti-ship missiles for the Turkish Navy’s 17 new Sikorsky S-70 Seahawk helicopters. The contract is the culmination of negotiations on an option embodied in the Penguin missile contract signed with Turkey in 1999