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US Army goes on Christmas spending spree
Christmas has come early for the US Army as the service announced several contracts for key programmes on 21 December, totalling billions of dollars.
The pre-Christmas spending spree included contracts for hundreds of new generation M1A2 Abrams tanks, more Patriot missiles and modernised ‘Paladin’ self-propelled artillery systems.
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