Boeing seeks UK decision on Wedgetail jet buy this year - executive

Boeing hopes Britain will decide this year on plans to buy E-7 Wedgetail early warning jets, an executive said, after talks last year sparked a row over competition in arms procurement.Britain said in October it was in exclusive discussions with Boeing and the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) about buying jets to replace its fleet of six ageing E-3D Sentry planes without holding a tender."We hope to have a decision this year," Scott Carpendale, Boeing Defence Australia's director of commercial