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DEFENCE RAAF chooses refurbisher Australian Defence Indus tries has been selected as prime contractor for the refur bishment of the Royal Austra lian Air Force's (RAAF) air- defence ground network, fol lowing the award of an A$36 million ($25 million) contract by the Australian Department of Defence. Called Project Vigilante and designated Project Air 5333, the programme will entail re placing or upgrading compon ents of the existing system over a two-year period. The two major subcontrac tors will be AWA Defence In dustries, which will supply switching-system hardware and software, and Westinghouse, which will provide computing and radar hardware. The RAAF's current air- defence system has three con trol and reporting units (CRUs). The contract will allow the upgrade of Darwin's No 2 CRU and re-locate it to a new purpose-built site at RAAF Tindal, although the radar will remain at Darwin. The No 3 CRU, located at Williamtown, New South Wales, will also be refurbished with new equip ment and software. Computing hardware to be supplied under the contract comprises about 60 IBM RISC 6000 workstations. Plessey MkV displays will be replaced with Sony high-resolution 2,000 x 2,000-pixel large- screen displays manufactured by Tindal & Williamtown. The new system's surface sensors will include the current three Westinghouse TPS-43 mobile air-defence radars, the Austra lian Civil Aviation Authority's planned new integrated civil air-traffic control system and the Jindalee over-the-horizon radar network. Separately, the RAAF's Westinghouse TPS-34 F(V)1 air-defence radars, which reach the end of their lives in the mid-1990s, will later either be upgraded or replaced under Project Air 5375, for which a contract worth A$75-100 mil lion is expected to be awarded in 1995. • Work has started on the new RAAF "bare-base" site near Weipa on the remote Cape York peninsula, Queensland. To be named RAAF Scherger, the base will be fully opera tional by 1999 and will support Australian Defence Force oper ations in north-eastern Austra lia and the air-sea gap to the country's north. The base will have a 3,000m (10,000ft) main runway, paral lel taxiway and exit taxiways designed for aircraft up to Boe ing 707 size. Initial plans include ten air craft shelters and ordnance loading aprons for General Dy namics F-llls and McDonnell Douglas F-18s, with additional parking aprons for maritime and transport aircraft to be provided. • Loral to supply F-18 pods Loral Aeronutronic has won two contracts to talling $133 million from McDonnell Douglas for NITE Hawk forward-looking infra-red (FLIR) targeting pods to equip F-18s. The largest of the two contracts, worth $112 mil lion, covers the production of 40 pods equipped with laser targel-designator/rang- ers and laser-spot trackers for in-service F-18s. The second contract cov ers engineering and manu facturing development of five NITE Hawk pod aft-section sub-assemblies for F-18C/Ds. The production contract also contains an option for two additional pods for an unnamed foreign customer. As most non-US F-18 opera tors already have FLIR sys tems, it is believed that the laser-equipped pods are for aircraft ordered by Finland, Malaysia or Switzerland. • Loral Defense Systems- Akron has won a $5.3 mil lion US Customs Service contract to modify an ad vanced synthetic-aperture- radar system for installation on a Lockheed P-3 Orion maritime-patrol aircraft. • A Flight International Conference EASTERN EUROPE AND THE CIS: MAKING THE FUTURE HAPPEN An international forum that brings East and West together 18th and 19th November 1993 Prague This top-level Symposium is of vital significance to anyone with an interest in the future of aerospace in Eastern Europe, Russia and Ukraine over the coming decade - and beyond. Flight International invites you to meet with colleagues of the most senior level from both East and West and discuss the most likely course of future developments. Together, you will also hear speakers of the very highest calibre address the following key issues: • Doing profitable business in the region: - Sales and finance - Establishing joint ventures • The problems of certification - and how they can be overcome in the East and West • Does Eastern Europe provide a model for aerospace development in the CIS? • The Military-Industrial Complex of the former Soviet Union: - Restructuring and privatisation - The future of the design bureaux - Defence conversion projects • Can the aerospace industry of Eastern Europe and the.CIS compete on equal terms with the West in world markets? • Prospects for growth in air transport and aircraft demand in the region Send now for further details, plus a full Conference Programme. FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 1 - 7 September, 1993 Please send me more information on 'Aerospace in Eastern Europe and the CIS: Making the future happen.' Name Company Address Tel:. 3 ways to get more information: Fax: +44(71)490 3319 Tel: +44 (71) 490 3318 Mail: The Conference Desk First Europe Communications 43-45 St John Street London EC1M 4AN, England ..Country. ..Fax: INTERNATIONAL
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