Monday, 6. January 2014
Topic: SECURITY - on January 6, 2014 at 2:13:00 PM CET
US BACKDOORED our satellites, claim UAE
A French contract to supply intelligence satellites to the United Arab Emirates could be cancelled, with the UAE claiming it's discovered backdoors in US-supplied components of the birds.
Defence News, which broke the story, claims that the $US930 million contract could be scrapped, according to high-level UAE sources, if the issue can't be resolved. That would be a blow for prime contractor Airbus Defence and Space, and payload maker Thales Alenia Space.
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