09/04/2002 (Agence Europe) - The Pentagon reportedly has the intention this week during a meeting in Colorado Springs with the heads of defence procurement from the UK, France, Germany and Italy, to convince Europeans to abandon the Airbus programme to build a military carrier plane A400M in favour of US aircraft of the same kind, states The Financial Times. Pentagon's Head of Acquisitions Pet Aldridge thus presented his European counterparts with an alternative offer by Boeing and Lockheed...