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126 FLIGHT International, 17 January 1981 US Navy finds Mount St Helens hot spots UNITED STATES Navy crews have used the A-6 Intruder's target recog nition and attack multisensor (Tram) to survey the Mount St Helens vol cano. The Tram sortie was flown by a TG-4C Academe, a Grumman Gulf- stream I modified to train A-6 bombardier/navigators. Tram's turret;- mounted infrared picked out hot spots on the volcano's north slope. An Oregon National Guard OV-1 Mohawk assisted in the survey, using its side-looking radar to penetrate the ash clouds shrouding the mountain. The resulting imagery revealed that nearly a cubic mile of the mountain had been blown out. The crater measures 2-2X1-1 miles. Improved IMato Hawk control THE Pentagon has offered the Nato Hawk surface-to-air missile (Sam) pro duction organisation a co-production deal for 29 AN/TSQ-73 Air Defence Command and Control systems, known as "Missile Minder." The esti- mated cost of the package is $120 million. The system improves missile response times and multi-target track ing. Missile Minder can be used with both the Hawk and Nike-Hercules Sams in the Nato inventory. Tracer.-. Tracer... Mitsubishi has delivered the second prototype "mini-jet" engine, designed to power the proposed XSSM surface- launched anti-ship missile, to the Japanese Technical Research and Development Institute. The first pro totype was delivered last September and has been tested successfully. XSSM is a derivative of the Mitsubi shi ASM-1 air-launched anti-ship missile. Kawasaki has received a $245,000 contract to begin a five-year pro gramme to develop a composite, sur- vivable helicopter rotor system. A team of Indian Air Foice test pilots has visited France to evaluate the Dassault-Breguet Mirage 2000. France has renewed its offer to sell the air craft to India after the Mirage F.l was rejected in favour of the Sepecat Jaguar International. India has received an unspecified number of Mi-8 Hip helicopters. This latest delivery adds to the 35 Mi-8s acquired by the Indian Air Force over the past nine years. The US Navy has bought 108 sets of McDonnell Douglas Harpoon anti-ship missile launch equipment for Lock heed P-3 Onions and plans to buy 29 more in 1981. About 30 P-3Cs are now equipped to carry Harpoon and the first P-3B able to fire the missile is operational. Integration of Harpoon with the Grumman A-6E Intruder con tinues. Initially 50 A-6Es will be modi fied with eventual plans for all Intruders to be Harpoon carriers. West Germany is to increase defence spending by 6-2 per cent, taking the 1981 budget to £9,000 million. This represents a real increase of around 2 per cent instead of the 3 per cent sought by Nato. Additional sums likely to be made available over the year will increase spending. Funding in 1980 is likely to run out at a 2-8 per cent real increase. India is considering local manufac ture of a light transport aircraft to meet Indian coast guard require ments for some 30 to 40 aircraft. A committee has suggested that the Pilatus Britten - Norman Islander would be a suitable candidate. Israel has cut its 1981 defence budget by 25 per cent, limiting spending to £900 million compared with last year's £1,200 million. Major projects, including the Lavi fighter, will go ahead, the Defence Ministry says, although new priorities might be established. Japan's Ground Self-Defence Force is testing a new mine which could be dropped from UH-1H helicopters for rapid mine-laying. A dispenser sys tem will be tested later this year and the Service plans to perform opera tional tests in 1982 and to introduce the weapon in 1983. Japan plans to increase defence spending by 6-6 per cent in 1981, less than the 9-7 per cent requested by the Defence Agency and less than the minimum rise sought by the United States. tt.Otr. PAULWABEL. USNaw. SHARED THE HUNTER TRDFW j0H^^L/OSUeN,«W/; BEST STUDENT. (46are right) WOM THE MekENMA TROPHY, THE.FftTUXEftT SHIELD AND SHARED THE HUMTERTROFW. HOST HlCKL, <^ftrtafl4**rTorjx, TBOPHy M r tl PHlUPJ.<2>NlfY /&*&lt;* Officer " (amtnaiMt UStf WINNER OF THE COFHAMTISOFHY E*i**<dsAHi. %NMHA.ffM Ti^rE^Kr., %U>(Pf) WINNER OF TXMOPTKOFHY (AUDKEB/AdGlBl) ~lHEfACUnY:^fo-<^e.teSSlE SPIERS <3«««M&^ Ag-A.Ef., (<&*£$ aw/ <?>.(2pt. WED flZlW,.S*»fc RlgfcTZ&W&TiflirUmY/e/B oftbrvoalllvis&tejo wkoislowingJbf&fa <tesk*t-MpD. m He EMPIRE TEST TlLOK'SCWOl McKENNA DINNER B°SCo»<beDown DECEMBER. II, mo Ma39FlXEt>WlMS COURSE Ho.ieKmi/vM& COURSE EWSlNEEKS'OXfcSE. (SUEST OF HONOUR- /Ummi/Slfi HEMRY LEAcH,-W£w£W THE ORGANISERS Ht.Lt. JOH DlCtfENS, QUI, C/efit) AMP Sfir-Ur. pfeTEK DUNSTAN .Wfl&i'tt), Men Aftuuoef, ATTENDED ACMIBARY TO THE (ft/ElL-BBNB OF THE.ASSEVIS-Y E>AVe WlLSONl Smyices.AsAEE.
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