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Aviation History
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1996 - 3141.PDF
MILITARY SIMULATORS %fiE*4j European nations use Hughes' unit-level training devices Business sense The military-aircraft simulation industry worldwide continues to rely on international business as domestic programmes face yet more delays. GRAHAM WARWICK/ATLANTA INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS continues to be vital to the military-aircraft simulation industry, as domestic programmes face fur ther delays. In Europe, progress on training systems for new combat aircraft such as the Euro fighter EF2000 and Eurocopter Tiger has been hampered by the uncertainties still sur rounding the timing and scale of production. In the USA, work continues on a new gener ation of combat aircraft, represented by the Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22, McDonnell Douglas F-18E/F and the Boeing/Sikorsky RAH-66 helicopter, but none of these aircraft will enter service before the turn of the century, and their importance to the simulation industry still lies some years ahead. Into the breach has stepped the international market, fuelled large ly, but not exclusively, by a new round of com bat-aircraft sales as countries strive to re-equip their forces for the new century. The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) has proved a major player in the past few months, placing contracts for Sikorsky S-70A Black Hawk, Boeing 707 and Lockheed Martin C- 130J simulators —-."all with CAE Electronics. More simulation work will accompany the RAAF's selection* of the British Aerospace Hawk as its lead-in fighter trainer, and its pend ing choice of airborne early-warning aircraft. Europe has not been idle. Germany awarded CAE a major contract earlier in 1996 to • FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 27 November - 3 December 1996 33
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