{"id":221019,"date":"2016-02-02T19:40:18","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T19:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=221019"},"modified":"2016-02-02T19:48:26","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T19:48:26","slug":"israeli-us-arms-companies-win-uk-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/israeli-us-arms-companies-win-uk-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli, US arms companies win UK contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: black;\">An Israeli arms company along with an American military contractor have won a $713 million contract to provide aircraft training for the UK military.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">Media reports say, Elbit Systems Ltd.<\/span><span style=\"color: #555555;\">\u00a0from Israel said in a statement <\/span><span style=\"color: #555555;\">that Affinity Flying Services Limited -its UK joint venture with Kellog, Brown and Root Limited (KBR)- has been awarded a fixed price contract for the support of Ascent Flight Training (Services) Ltd. from the UK Military Flight Training System (UKMFTS) program. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #555555;\">Each company holds a 50% stake in Affinity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #555555;\">The UKMFTS program is an innovative partnering agreement between UK Front Line Commands, the UK Ministry of Defense, Ascent and other leading industry partners to deliver aircrew training for the 21st century. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #555555;\">&#8220;This award attests to our position as a leading provider of systems and training infrastructure, as well as maintenance and logistics support service. The UK is one of Elbit Systems\u2019 primary markets. The award of the contract to deliver this key program for the UK\u2019s armed forces is a significant recognition of our proven ability to adapt and deliver innovative global solutions to meet the specific needs of the UK market and customer,\u201d Elbit Systems CEO and President Bezhalel Machlis said.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/02\/02\/448448\/Israeli-US-arms-companies-win-UK-contract\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Israeli arms company along with an American military contractor have won a $713 million contract to provide aircraft training for the UK military. Media reports say, Elbit Systems Ltd.\u00a0from Israel said in a statement that Affinity Flying Services Limited -its UK joint venture with Kellog, Brown and Root Limited (KBR)- has been awarded a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":221020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-221019","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}