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•&£j*2rtS& CONTRACTS ++ Israel has signed a letter of offer and acceptance for the remanufac- ture of 12 Boeing AH-64A attack helicopters to radar-equipped AH-64D Apache Longbows. A con tract should be signed by April, with deliveries due in 2003. ++ Derco Aerospace has won a contract from the Botswana Defence Force to recover a Lockheed Martin C-130B Hercules from storage in the USA and perform a series of avionics upgrades on it and two sim ilar aircraft already in service. ++ The UK Royal Navy (RN) has placed a £378 million ($603 mil lion) contract for Matra BAe Dynamics Seawolf short-range surface-to-air missiles. ++ The Royal Australian Air Force has selected Etta to meet an interim requirement for electronic- warfare pods for its General Dynamics F-llls. Elta and its Australian subcontractor Vision Abell will supply EL/L-8222 pods worth $30 million. ++ The Lockheed Martin/ Northrop Grum man joint venture Longbow has received a $25.9 million contract to fit APG-78 Longbow radars to Republic of Singapore Air Force Boeing AH-64D Apache helicopters. Deliveries are due in 2002, along side deliveries of the eight Apaches ordered by Singapore. ++ Boeing has received a $162 million con tract to supply over 8,000 Joint Direct Attack Munitions to the US Air Force and US Navy. Production will begin in March next year. ++ Raytheon Aircraft has re ceived an $11.4 million US Army contract to produce two Beech King Air B200s. designated C-12R/APs, for an unidentified export customer. The aircraft will be delivered next year and used for aerial mapping and photography missions. ++ Racal Avionics has won con tracts worth £60 million ($95 mil lion) to supply Saturn V/UHF radios for RN GKN Westland Lynx and nav igation systems for UK Royal Air Force Boeing Chinook HC2/2As. ++ BAE Systems North America has won a €27 million ($26.4 mil lion) contract for three trajectory tracking radars from the French Ministry of Defence. Sikorsky creates heavier Seahawk for Asia-Pacific SIKORSKY IS adapting the S-70/SH-60 Seahawk to use the external stores support system (ESSS) normally employed on UH-60 utility machines. At last month's Asian Aerospace show, a model was displayed of a helicopter with the additional fuse lage stores pylons as well as the US Navy's SH-60R sensor suite, including a nose-mounted for ward-looking infrared and Tele- phonics APS-143 radar. Other changes could include the Sikorsky S-92's more powerful dynamic system and uprated General Electric CT7/T700 engines. The ESSS is used to earn,' fuel tanks and weapons-including AGM-114 Hellfire missiles, for which die SH-60R has a laser- guidance capability. Sikorsky says the development is driven by requests from Asia- Pacific customers and it could raise the Seahawk's maximum take-off weight to 11,300kg (25,OOOlb). Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore have shipborne heli copter requirements. The former needs around 12 machines for anti submarine warfare (ASW) opera tions and, increasingly, for economic exclusion zone patrol. Candidates are the GKN Westland Lynx, the Kaman SH-2 Super SeaSprite, the NH Industries NH90 and the SH-60. Industry sources say manufac turers have begun to brief the Indonesian navy, anticipating diat the country's pre-economic crisis requirement to replace Westland Wasps will be revived. Malaysia ordered six Super Lynx last year and is expected to move forward with its competition for 12 machines to equip offshore patrol vessels. The decks can accommo date Malaysia's Sikorsky S-61 Nuris and, as a result, will fit the same four contenders as the Indonesian competition. Singapore has long had a mar itime helicopter requirement that is expected to become more focused once an imminent order for six destroyers is placed. J Sikorsky has added the ESSS stores system to an SH-60R type configuration Australia-USA to expand link with EW threat data transfer AUSTRALIA AND the USA are to develop a framework allowing die transfer of electronic- warfare (EW) direat data as part of a proposed expansion of interoper ability arrangements between die two countries. The proposed arrangement fol lows Australian criticism of US State Department restrictions im posed last year on access to EW technologies for the Royal Aus tralian Air Force's now-suspended Echidna integrated self-protection requirement. The new framework proposal emerged from talks between EW officials from both countries at a meeting of the Australia-USA Ministerial Acquisition Council in Canberra last month. Shireane McKinnie, director-general of EW and radar systems at the Australian Department of Defence (DoD), confirms that "interoper ability and electronic warfare were major issues on the agenda". McKinnie says: "It was agreed that we should work towards a joint memorandum of understanding for the exchange of EW direat data and develop a plan to improve co operation on electronic warfare." The Australian DoD is expected this month to release to industry initial details of its proposed restructuring of the Echidna pro ject, suspended in January. Q RFP limits R-R options in C-5 competition THE Rolls-Royce RB211-535-E4D powerplant has been dropped from the competition to re-engine 126 Lockheed Martin C-5 A/B transports after the release of a request for proposals (REP). Lockheed Martin, armed with a preliminary Si5 million contract, has been tasked with selecting a new powerplant for the C-5. Its REP gives General Electric, Pratt & Whitney and R-R until 24 April to submit proposals. Lockheed Martin seeks a flat rated 50,0001b-thrust (220kN) engine, ruling out the 43,0001b- thrust RB21L Instead, R-R is proposing the Trent 500. The other contenders are derated ver sions of the GE CE6-80C2 and P&WPW4650. • 20 FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 7 - 13 March 2000
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