Mysterious Malfunction in Cold Weather
Finnish Defence Forces reported on 3 September 2012 that the United States has not delivered any of the AMRAAM anti-aircraft missiles they had ordered due to a mysterious engine malfunction in cold weather that the manufacturer, Raytheon, has not been able to determine the fault of. Colonel Kari Renko, an engineer at the Finnish Air Force, was quoted by Helsingin Sanomat as saying about this failure, "The problem involves the rocket engines which have been in use for decades" and that Finland first was told of the problems by the Americans about two years ago.
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