US State Dept OKs potential sale of tactical missiles to Canada

FILE PHOTO: People enter the State Department building in Washington

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department approved a foreign military sale to Canada of tactical missiles and related support for $264.6 million, the Pentagon said on Friday.

The principal contractor for the AIM-9X Sidewinder Block II+ and Block II tactical missiles will be RTX Corp, the Pentagon said in a statement.

(Reporting by Kanishka Singh and Jasper Ward in Washington; editing by Diane Craft)