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The UAE Navy has selected IPTN of Indonesia as the winner in its competition for the supply of four maritime patrol and ASW aircraft. The official announcement was made during the recent TRIDEX '98 Defence Exhibition in Abu Dhabi - which ironically enough IPTN had decided not to attend, almost certainly in view of Indonesia's current severe financial and economic troubles. It would appear that these troubles, and the resulting uncertainties as regards IPTN's own future, were...