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Jordan gets U.S. Black Hawk helicopters to bolster defenses
Source: Reuters
World | Thu Mar 3, 2016 11:49am EST
Jordan gets U.S. Black Hawk helicopters to bolster defenses
AMMAN | BY SULEIMAN AL-KHALIDI
The United States delivered eight Black Hawk helicopters to Jordan on Thursday to help its regional ally defend itself against the threat of Islamic State militants, Jordanian and U.S. officials said.
They said another eight Black Hawks would begin arriving next year under a military aid deal worth about $200 million.
The helicopters are central to a U.S.-funded "Quick Reaction Force" set up by Jordan to counter Islamic State, which controls large swathes of territory in neighboring Iraq and Syria.
In a handover ceremony at Marka military airforce base, U.S. ambassador to Jordan Alice G. Wells said Washington had supplied "millions of rounds of small arms ammunition, hundreds of bombs" and other equipment to Jordan since February last year.
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Jordan gets U.S. Black Hawk helicopters to bolster defenses
AMMAN | BY SULEIMAN AL-KHALIDI
The United States delivered eight Black Hawk helicopters to Jordan on Thursday to help its regional ally defend itself against the threat of Islamic State militants, Jordanian and U.S. officials said.
They said another eight Black Hawks would begin arriving next year under a military aid deal worth about $200 million.
The helicopters are central to a U.S.-funded "Quick Reaction Force" set up by Jordan to counter Islamic State, which controls large swathes of territory in neighboring Iraq and Syria.
In a handover ceremony at Marka military airforce base, U.S. ambassador to Jordan Alice G. Wells said Washington had supplied "millions of rounds of small arms ammunition, hundreds of bombs" and other equipment to Jordan since February last year.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-jordan-usa-idUSKCN0W5230
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