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...half of Bundeswehr procurement now benefits German firms. Germany's once huge aircraft industry has been pulled together into two big "North" and "South" industrial units, composed of such famous firms as Heinkel, Messerschmitt and Dornier. The government has already awarded them contracts to make 200 F-104s and other foreign planes under license. A Krupp subsidiary, "Weser" Flugzeugbau, has been commissioned to design a medium-range transport. In March, Strauss's Defense Ministry parceled out $520 million in military spending, five times the average of any preceding month...
...regular commercial service. The TU-104 looks like a Victorian Pullman car with ornate chandeliers, overstuffed seats, brass serving trays and old-time chain-flush toilets. But overnight it has changed Aeroflot from a lowly regarded, primarily domestic line into a major international threat. Aeroflot has about 50 TU-104s, flies them regularly to East Berlin, Prague, Sofia and distant cities within the U.S.S.R., cuts the eight-day Moscow-to-Peking rail trip to just nine hours...
...take up the slack. Lockheed, too, may see some slowdown in orders for its sizzling (upwards of 1,300 m.p.h.) F-104 Starfighter. The Pentagon plans to close out several wings in the Air Defense Command and Tactical Air Command, some of which were to be equipped with F-104s. Yet Lockheed denies any cuts in planned F-104 production, reportedly has firm orders for hundreds of planes. Lockheed's commercial backlog is also fat with orders for Constellations and its new turboprop Electra airliner...