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1975
1975 - 0920.PDF
826 FLIGHT International. 22 May /975 mini DEFENCE to reach the Secretary for the Air Force, Mr John C. McLucas, by May 20. There is claimed still to have been no in-flight failure of any F100 rotating part. UAE to merge forces The seven member states of the United Arab Emirates agreed in prin ciple on May 12 to merge their mili tary forces and call in experts from neighbouring Arab states to advise on unification (see Flight for March 13, page 431, for details of proposed amalgamation). The advisers will also draw up recommendations to ensure that the federal government has sole responsibility for importing weapons and other military equipment. Airborne Tow equipment delivered Hughes' Electro-Optical and Data Systems Group has delivered the first production XM65 airborne Tow system on schedule to Bell Helicopter for installation in a US Army AH-1Q (see Flight for May 8, pages 767 and 776, for details of plans to arm attack helicopters with the missile). More than 300 XM65s, worth over $100 million, will be manufactured between now and early 1977, delivery rate exceeding 20 per month by next January. T-38 target conversion Sperry Flight Systems has been awarded a $300,000 contract to sup ply equipment for prototype QT-38A remotely piloted targets. The com pany will provide attitude and head ing reference sets, flight-control electronics, and control-surface and throttle actuators for the stability- augmentation system. The equipment is similar to that supplied for 31 QF-86H targets, which have made more than 15 unmanned flights. The QT-38As will be used as targets for air-to-air missiles at the US Naval Weapons Centre, China Lake, and the Naval Weapons Test Centre, Pt Mugu. The aircraft will be "flown" by a con troller-pilot in a fully instrumented ground-based procedures trainer which will be equipped with a tele vision display, a camera being mounted in the target. Aerojet submits Asalm bid Aerojet Solid Propulsion submitted its bid to develop and demonstrate Weapon trials with the "Pegasus," the first Patrol Hydrofoil Missile PHM) for the US Navy, are due to be carried out throughout the summer. Operational USN PHMs will carry two banks of four Harpoon launchers each, but "Pegasus" has been fitted with a single trials launch canister on the port side m^^mn k>»« «t£«. fe ttle Advanced Strategic Air-Launched Missile (Asalm) to the USAF Rocket Propulsion Laboratory on May 5. Asalm, designed to destroy defences in the path of B-52s and B-ls, will employ ramjet propulsion. The other competitors for the development con tract, expected to be awarded next month, are Rocketdyne, UTC and Thiokol's Huntsville Division. Crete firing range continues Northrop has been awarded a second 18-month extension, worth $3 • 1 million, to the contract under which it supplies range services and Chukar II target drones for the Nato Missile Firing Installation (Namfi) on Crete. The range, which became operational in 1968, is used by the US, Belgium, Germany, Holland and Greece. France denies Plutons for Germany French officials have denied allega tions by Communist Party leader Georges Marchais that the French Army intends to base some of its Pluton battlefield-support missiles in The Shin Meiwa SS-2A (US-1) amphibian is officially classified as a search-and-rescue aircraft and thereby escapes the Japanese Government's embargo on exports of military aircraft. The Maritime Self-Defence Force, however, plans to use the aircraft for anti submarine-warfare trials, off either Hawaii or the Bahamas Germany. Confusion is understood to have arisen because three regiments of the weapon will be controlled from Baden-Baden, although the units themselves will remain on French territory. Portuguese Air Force CoS removed Gen Narciso Mendes Dias, Chief of Staff of the Portuguese Air Force, was removed from office on May 15 by the country's president. The new CoS is Gen Morais da Silva, who has described his intention of creating a "revolutionary air force." This step is regarded as being the final stage in purging the air force, the most con servative wing of the armed forces, after the abortive coup on March 11. y,;..HPPll WPjWIMi? '. —»'.»*"
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