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Darwin is unique among Australia’s capital cities, it is the smallest, northernmost, wettest and warmest of them all and one of its biggest fans is the city’s Greek-born Lord Mayor Kon Vatskalis who will be putting himself up for re-election in August.
“Many people realise living in big cities has its advantages until things go wrong,” Cr Vatskalis told Neos Kosmos. One of the things that has gone wrong over the past year has, of course, been the COVID-19 pandemic, which Darwin has so far managed to handle with better results than in the south-eastern end of the nation.
By Garrett Reim2021-03-13T00:22:00+00:00
The US Department of State has approved a possible Foreign Military Sale of five Boeing P-8A maritime patrol aircraft to Germany for an estimated cost of $1.77 billion.
The US Congress was notified of the possible sale on 12 March, the US Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA).
Source: Boeing
Australian P-8 Poseidon with anti-ship missiles
In addition to five P-8A aircraft, Berlin requested tactical open mission software, L3Harris Wescam MX-20HD electro-optical/infrared sensors, Raytheon APY-10 maritime, littoral and overland surveillance radar, Deagel ALQ-240 electronic support measures and BAE Systems ALE-47 countermeasures dispensing systems, among other subsystems, support equipment, maintenance equipment, training devices and spare parts.