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Rolls-Royce Picks Up Pentagon Contract

Last updated on Saturday, September 29, 2007
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(INDIANAPOLIS) - Rolls-Royce has landed its second big Pentagon contract this week.

The company's Indianapolis factory will receive 700-million dollars over five years to build aircraft engines for the V-22 Osprey.

The Osprey takes off and lands like a helicopter, but can fly twice as fast with three times the payload.

The announcement follows a nearly 800-million-dollar contract to make spare parts for the C-130 Hercules cargo plane.


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