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1984
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DEFENCE Peru updates Mirage 5 systems LIMA The first four Peruvian Air Force Mirage 5s to be equip ped with a new nav-attack system have entered service one month ahead of schedule. The aircraft are fitted with an inertial navigation system, headup display, laser range- finder, and new radio- communications equipment. Dassault-Breguet was awarded the modernisation contract in March 1982, with delivery of the first four aircraft set for mid-December 1983. Dassault is delivering retrofit kits at the rate of about one a month for inte gration by Peruvian Air Force personnel under the direction of an on-site Dassault team. The number of aircraft to be retrofitted has not been disclosed. Since the aircraft entered service in 1969, Peru has received some 40 Mirage 5Ps and two-seat 5DPs, although ten aircraft were transferred to Argentina after the Falklands war. The modernisation pro gramme gives the Peruvian Mirage 5s the capability to carry Matra Magic heat- seeking air-to-air missiles. The inertial platform provides self-contained navigation, eliminating the need for external radio aids such as ADF. The laser increases delivery accuracy on low-level penetration missions. Most significantly, the nav- attack update introduces automatic weapon release, with several modes available for use with guns, rockets, low-drag and retarded bombs. Waypoints and targets are pre-programmed into the system's memory allowing low-level, high-speed, single- pass attacks on designated targets. Dassault says that it has already performed several similar modernisation pro grammes for Mirage cus tomers. More Soviet activity TOKYO Soviet air activity around Japan intensified in Novem ber and early December, with flights by 21 Tu-16 Badgers and 13 Tu-95 Bears. On November 15, 29, and Decem ber 2 flights of seven Badgers flew over the Sea of Japan and the Tsushima Strait; 12 went on to Vietnam while nine, believed to include tank ers, soon returned to Siberia. On November 14,15, 28, 29, and December 1 and 2 flights of two or three Bears flew circuits around Japan via the Sea of Japan, East China Sea, Okinawa, the Pacific Ocean, Kuril Islands, Sakhalin, then on to Siberia. On three of these occasions the Japan Air Self-Defence Force sent between 18 and 28 F-4s, F-104s, and F-ls to intercept the Bears, believed to be on navigation training exercises. General Dynamics' two F-16XL arrow-wing demonstrator aircraft have completed scheduled flight-testing, but continue customer demonstrations. The upper aircraft displays an interesting deceptive paint scheme • Foreign submarines are believed to have entered Swedish waters at least 16 times since the autumn. After one incident, the tracks of a mini-submarine were found on the sea floor close to a military installation. Sweden is buying passive sonobuoy processing equip ment with which to equip its anti-submarine helicopters. This equipment, supplied by Computing Devices of Canada, will enable the Swedes to locate and identify intruding submarines before forcing them to the surface using new torpedoes and depth charges scheduled to become operational early this year. Sea Harriers arrive in India GOA The Indian Navy's first three British Aerospace Sea Harrier FRS.51s have arrived at their Dabolim Airport base in Goa. The aircraft arrived via Malta, Luxor, and Dubai and were escorted into Indian airspace by a Navy Sea Hawk. The Sea Harriers are to take over from Sea Hawks on the Indian Navy's aircraft carrier INS Vikrant. The remaining five Sea Harriers and two Harrier T.60 trainers will arrive in India between February and May. A further order for ten Sea Harriers and one or two trainers is antici pated. Mitsubishi CCV delayed TOKYO Handover of the Mitsubishi T-2 control - configured vehicle (CCV) testbed has- been delayed, possibly to March, after the aircraft experienced a sudden, undemanded roll to the right while on a flight-test from Komaki airfield, Nagoya, in mid-October. Mitsubishi and the Japanese Defence Agency Technical Research and Development Agency are discussing a new CCV deliv ery date, having missed the November deadline. FLIGHT International, 7 January 1984
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