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Rapid Fire June 6, 2013: More Competition Coming to Medium Transport Aircraft Market?

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* CEO of Airbus Military Domingo Ureña-Raso said the company was mulling developing a 16-18t transport aircraft, below C-130s and roughly at Embraer’s level with its KC-390. * In the absence of having been proven guilty, AgustaWestland wants to be paid the funds held by India in the VVIP helicopter deal since the spring. * South and North Korea will hold talks for the first time in more than 2 years. * Regional assignments among NATO members in a post-2014 Afghanistan are starting to take shape, but how many US troops will stay there, if any, remains undetermined. * Russia does not want Finland or Sweden to join NATO. If they don’t want reverse Finlandization to happen, maybe they should stop testing their neighbors’ responses to surprise flights and exercises? * Venezuela will surely be glad that NATO will not expand all the way down to Colombia. * Mid-range missile systems are part of the wave of upgrades planned by Poland. * The CSIS US think tank organized several panels on the dialogue between Poland and Russia, such as it is. Video below of the 2nd panel on the impact of that relationship over the whole central/eastern European region:

* CEO of Airbus Military Domingo Ureña-Raso said the company was mulling developing a 16-18t transport aircraft, below C-130s and roughly at Embraer’s level with its KC-390.

* In the absence of having been proven guilty, AgustaWestland wants to be paid the funds held by India in the VVIP helicopter deal since the spring.

* South and North Korea will hold talks for the first time in more than 2 years.

* Regional assignments among NATO members in a post-2014 Afghanistan are starting to take shape, but how many US troops will stay there, if any, remains undetermined.

* Russia does not want Finland or Sweden to join NATO. If they don’t want reverse Finlandization to happen, maybe they should stop testing their neighbors’ responses to surprise flights and exercises?

* Venezuela will surely be glad that NATO will not expand all the way down to Colombia.

* Mid-range missile systems are part of the wave of upgrades planned by Poland.

* The CSIS US think tank organized several panels on the dialogue between Poland and Russia, such as it is. Video below of the 2nd panel on the impact of that relationship over the whole central/eastern European region:

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