IDEX ends on a high as UAE orders more C-17s

The deal, worth an estimated $618 million was one of the last to be announced at the biennial event, where the UAE military – the world’s fourth largest purchaser of arms - signed total deals worth almost $5 billion dollars with local and international companies, according to Obaid al-Ketbi, chairman of IDEX.
Boeing is closing down production of the military plane developed for the U.S. Air Force amid dwindling demand and is in the process of selling the last of the C-17 jets it built. The company last month said it had seven more of the planes to sell.
The U.A.E. has used its six long-range C-17 transport planes in humanitarian missions as part of a more assertive foreign policy adopted by the country. The country bought the first batch of C-17 planes in 2010. The last of those was delivered in June 2012.