IOMAX holds emergency talks with Egypt to sell armed turboprop aircrafts

Signals intelligence and airborne system solutions provider IOMAX has held “emergency” talks with Egypt’s Defense Ministry “to safeguard an expected sale of armed turboprop aircraft from being poached by its Air Tractor and L3 Technologies competitors,” IHS Jane’s 360 reported. IOMAX has for some months reportedly been in negotiations with Egypt “to support and upgrade 12 AT-802s that have been gifted by the United Arab Emirates (UAE), at the same time as looking to sell the country 10 of its latest Archangel Block 2 Border Patrol Aircraft (BPA).” Jane’s says IOMAX has held emergency talks after discovering “L3 was trying to use the US government to have Egypt buy the AT-802L that it has developed with Air Tractor instead.”