{"id":434196,"date":"2025-09-18T18:20:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T18:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/434196\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T18:20:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T18:20:14","slug":"up-to-150-jobs-created-in-birmingham-through-us-military-aircraft-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/434196\/","title":{"rendered":"Up to 150 jobs created in Birmingham through US military aircraft deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As part of the contract, two existing Boeing 737 passenger aircraft will be significantly overhauled and upgraded, the MoD said, to create two highly advanced prototype early-warning surveillance aircraft. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The UK has already ordered three state-of-the-art Boeing E-7 Wedgetail early-warning aircraft, scheduled to enter service with the Royal Air Force in 2026, which the MoD said already supported 190 jobs in the UK, 130 of them in Birmingham.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;As Boeing expands its production line, [those in] the new 150 jobs in the UK will modify two prototype E-7A Wedgetail aircraft using the airframe from new commercial aircraft which will be the first E-7A models received by the US,&#8221; the MoD said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The UK E-7 programme has more than 40 UK-based suppliers involved, including the construction of two new engineering facilities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The contract announcement coincides with US president Trump&#8217;s second UK state visit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Commenting on the contract, Healy added: &#8220;This deal is a vote of confidence in Britain&#8217;s world-leading defence industry and delivers on the commitments set out in our Strategic Defence Review and Defence Industrial Strategy, making us secure at home and strong abroad.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As part of the contract, two existing Boeing 737 passenger aircraft will be significantly overhauled and upgraded, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-434196","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115226687747638600","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}