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If completed, the deal would include hundreds of rocket launchers and could increase Elbit's order backlog by about 20 percent, strengthening the Israel-based defense contractor's position in the European market

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The German government is advancing a deal to purchase rocket-launcher systems from Israel's Elbit Systems for more than five billion euros (about 5.4 billion dollars).