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Rockwell Collins wins competition for Chinook partial glass cockpit
Boeing Helicopters has selected Rockwell Collins to develop and produce a partial glass cockpit for the US Army's CH-47 Improved Cargo Helicopter (ICH). Rockwell Collins, which previously provided advanced avionics for 11 MH-47D Chinook helicopters, was selected as Boeing's avionics subcontractor in preference to Honeywell and Canadian Marconi. Honeywell ...
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UK procurement chief outlines broad ambitions for UAVs
Ramon Lopez/Bristol UK chief of defence procurement, Sir Robert Walmsley, has spelled out the UK Ministry of Defence's increasing interest in use of unmanned air vehicles (UAVs). "UAVs are capable of providing support to the warfighter or even becoming a replacement for the warfighter and have gained the ...
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FAA voices fears over efforts to fix millennium software bug
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC The US Federal Aviation Administration is concerned that the international aviation community will not be ready in time for the Year 2000 (Y2K) date change, while it has speeded up efforts to put its own house in order to combat the millennium software bug. The ...
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Sema support
Lockheed Martin has teamed with France's Sema Group to design the logistic support for its Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) proposal. The US company says Sema provides access to European experience and expertise in logistics support and information systems, which, it hopes, will strengthen its JSF bid. Source: Flight International
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Russian air force revives efforts to find fifth generation fighter
Alexander Velovich/MOSCOW Despite parlous finances, the Russian air force is renewing its efforts to procure a fifth generation fighter. Air force test pilots are evaluating the Sukhoi S-37 and funding is being provided for the MIGMAPO 1.42 prototype. Lt Gen Yuriy Klishin, deputy commander in chief for acquisition, ...
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Greyhound variant chases USN slot
Northrop Grumman is studying a turbofan re-engined derivative of the C-2 Greyhound as a potential low cost candidate for the US Navy's Common Support Aircraft requirement to replace carrier-based C-2 onboard delivery, E-2 early warning and S-3 maritime patrol, electronic surveillance and tanker aircraft. The Greyhound 21 could be operational ...
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C-27J emerges as possible AEW platform
Lockheed Martin has looked at the feasibility of installing Ericsson's Erieye airborne early warning (AEW) radar on the upgraded C-27J transport, under development with Alenia. A version of the C-27J could be offered as a smaller alternative to the AEW variant of Lockheed Martin's C-130J Hercules 2. The C-130J ...
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Apache 'packs in'
The US Army has successfully completed a "dense pack" demonstration at Williams Gateway Airport, Arizona, in which six Boeing AH-64D Apache Longbow helicopters were loaded into a Lockheed Martin C-5A. Boeing says it took 2h for the Army to prepare each of the aircraft for loading, using 12 soldiers. Fire ...
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Italy talks defense
Italy is in talks with the US Department of Defense on taking a $40 million stake in the Joint Strike Fighter programme, according to Alenia aerospace division president Georgio Zappa. Source: Flight International
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USN plans test for T-45 engine surge solution
Flight testing of the US Navy's Boeing T-45 Goshawk jet trainer is planned for May in an effort to eliminate engine surges experienced at high angles of attack. Windtunnel testing of a model inlet and wing has been conducted at NASA Langley in a bid to isolate the problem, ...
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JSF requirement cap likely as rising costs force choices
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC The US Department of Defense (DoD) is likely to modify critical elements of the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) in an attempt to cap escalating costs. Industry believes that the next iteration of the JSF requirements document will incorporate changes intended to reduce the costs of the three ...
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F-22 model installed for systems testing
A full-scale model of the forward half of a Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22 has been installed on a tower at Fort Worth, Texas, to test the fighter's integrated communication, navigation and identification (CNI) system. The tests, at Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems, will use live signals from Dallas/Fort Worth Airport, NAS ...
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Elta profits
Elta, the electronic warfare arm of Israel Aircraft Industries, posted pre-tax profits of $8.2 million for 1997, as sales grew by 17% to $270 million. New orders were booked worth $620 million, taking the company's backlog to $850 million. Source: Flight International
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Strong US dollar helps to lift ST Aero's profits
Singapore Technologies Aerospace (ST Aero) has more than doubled its profits in 1997 as the strength of the US dollar helped push up margins in an already strong commercial and military overhaul business. Net profits for the aerospace business, now part of the ST Engineering grouping, came in at ...
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Germany fears cost of Tu-154 collision
The German Government could face claims for millions of dollars from dependents of those killed in a mid-air collision off the West African coast last September, following evidence that the German air force Tupolev Tu-154 was at the wrong altitude. Investigations have revealed that the pilot of the Tu-154 ...
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RAF tries to trade Tornados and Harriers to salvage Jaguar fleet
Douglas Barrie/London The Royal Air Force has told the UK Government that it will sacrifice Panavia Tornado GR1, Tornado F3, and British Aerospace Harrier GR7 aircraft to prevent the Sepecat Jaguar being axed. In arguing its corner within the ongoing Strategic Defence Review (SDR), the RAF is battling to keep ...
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France delivers blow to Trigat LRmissile
The French defence ministry has cut funding for the Trigat LR anti-tank missile, throwing the already embattled project further into doubt. The Trigat LR was intended to arm the Eurocopter Tiger attack helicopter. The Trigat cut was announced as part of the country's defence expenditure review, revealed on 9 ...
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Gripen EW
Ericsson Saab Avionics has beaten "severe international competition" to supply the integrated electronic warfare (EW) suite for the export version of the Saab/British Aerospace JAS39 Gripen fighter. The EWS 39 threat warning, jamming and chaff/ flare suite is based on the EW system already installed in Swedish air force Gripens. ...
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May deadline looms for South African helicopter contests
Douglas Barrie/London South Africa has set a May deadline for bids in its Light Utility Helicopter (LUH) contest to replace Aerospatiale Alouette IIIs and for maritime helicopters for its planned 3,000t corvettes. Eurocopter and GKN Westland are shortlisted for the six maritime helicopters, while Agusta, Bell Canada and ...
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Germany finances development of Taurus stand-off missile
GermanY's defence procurement office (BWB) has awarded Daimler-Benz Aerospace missile subsidiary LFK a contract for the development of the MAW Taurus modular stand-off missile. The missile, in its basic KEPD 350 version, is armed with a TDW Mephisto kinetic energy penetrator to allow attacks on hardened targets, and is ...