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Support group makes 'smart business'
THE UK C-130J Industrial Support Group (ISG) which started life six years ago with an informal membership of just two companies, has received a significant shot in the arm with the announcement that a further 10 British aerospace firms are to join, swelling its ranks to 45. The ...
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Face the facts with... John Weston
Europe's defence industry is described by British Aerospace defence chief John Weston as a "crazy football match". Commenting on the fractured state of moves to integrate the continent's defence and aerospace industries, Weston says some players can't even find the pitch, and others are shooting at different goals: "There is ...
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Russians confident of MiG MAPO future
The newly-elected chairman of the giant Russian military/industrial conglomerate MiG MAPO says the long-term future of the grouping - which is less than a year old - is secure. "With 60,000 employees in a dozen companies, it's not surprising that the Group is taking some time to 'mature'," ...
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Eurocopter eyes Tiger production contract at Show
Eurocopter officials expect a contract for setting up production lines for the Tiger combat helicopter to be signed at Le Bourget on Friday. Jean-Francois Bigay, Eurocopter chairman and chief executive officer, says the signature ceremony is expected to take place at the French Defence Ministry's pavilion. ...
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Mica on target
Dassault Aviation's Rafale B01, naval version of the fourth generation multirole combat aircraft, has for the first time successfully fired, by ejection release, a Matra BAe Dynamics Mica missile, with inertial guidance, at a supersonic target. The firing, carried out on 26 May at the Centre d'essais des ...
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Le Bourget filled to capacity - again!
The "Complet" sign is up on the Paris International Air Show - with more than 1,700 exhibitors from 43 countries, the 42nd edition of this venerable exposition is sold out. Organisers are expecting about 300,000 visitors over the eight days of the show at Le Bourget. ...
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September flight on the cards for Renault-powered Socata
Gleaming white, and proudly sporting its Renault Sport compression ignition turbocharged diesel engine, Socata's new generation Trinidad TB 20 trainer hopes to capture a share of contracts for light aircraft of 180hp to 300hp class. Flight tests begin in late summer or early autumn at Tarbes, south-west France, ...
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Face the facts with.. Colin Green
Colin Green, Managing Director, Rolls-Royce Aerospace, comes to the show looking to a future where his company has an equal market share in the civil powerplant field with its two US competitors. He talks to Alan Dron. Q Do you foresee the recent change of government in Britain, ...
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Single trainers show potential
The world's first independent market intelligence study on single-engined military piston trainer aircraft suggests a potential $2.7 billion market over the next ten years. However, despite the potential it warns Western aircraft manufacturers not to be complacent. The report* was launched yesterday at the show, and ...
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SOIM trainer leading way
Romania's newly upgraded IAR-99 SOIM trainer is on show at Paris for the first time after making its maiden flight only three weeks ago. The jet powered SOIM is intended as a lead-in trainer for advanced fast jets such as the F-16 Fighting Falcon and F/A-18 Hornet, according ...
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Russian sales to hit $5billion in 1997
Russia's aircraft industry comes to Paris with new-found vigour after defence exports continued to recover during the past year, with experts predicting sales of $5 billion during 1997. This represents a doubling of sales over the last five years, since they were rocked when the Soviet Union collapsed ...
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Chance for unmanned flights at Paris in 1999
Unmanned, uninhabited or remotely piloted vehicles are rising high on the agenda of many nations and a conference in the Paris Meridien Hotel last week to review thelatest developments attracted some 500 delegates. Maj Gen Kenneth Israel, the Pentagon's Director of Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office, was the keynote speaker at ...
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Doctored signal makes radar reading suspect
Electronic warfare could be revolutionised when new Drone Radar Electronic Enhancement Mechanism (DREEM) tech-nology is in widespread use on manned aircraft, towed decoys and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). Details of DREEM technology to be deployed on the Bristol Aerospace Hokum-X and Vampire test targets to deceive enemy air ...
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Flying the flag at Le Bourget
While the exhibitors are putting the finishing touches to their stands and exhibitions, it is yet another day in the office for the pilots in the flying display. The couple of days leading up to the official opening are for rehearsals...when the pilots from all over the world ...
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UAVs attract renewed US attention
America's revolutionary high-altitude endurance unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) programmes are back on track after a series of setbacks, say Pentagon officials in Paris. USAF Maj Gen Kenneth Israel, Director of the Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office, says it has been a "great year for us". The recent ...
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Australian shortlist
British Aerospace Australia, an Elta/Elisra team, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon E-Systems and Rockwell-ASTA Defence (now part of Boeing) have been shortlisted to supply electric-warfare equipment for a range of Australian Defence Force aircraft. A request for tenders to supply self-protection systems for the General Dynamics F-111, Lockheed Martin C-130J, ...
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CAE eyes military boom
CAE president John Caldwell says that the group is preparing to take a leading position in Europe's military-simulator sector as sales boom over the next five years, and will also consider re-entering the USA once an exclusion agreement signed with Hughes Electronics expires. Europe's military-simulator market is expected ...
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Fokker's SABCA share to be sold
Receivers at FOKKER Aircraft have decided to put the bankrupt company's 48.8%share in Belgian aerospace manufacturer SABCA up for sale. It is not yet clear whether the shares will be floated on the stock market or placed directly with an investor. SABCA says that there are "several" prospective ...
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Lockheed Martin to fly all-electric F-16
LOCKHEEDMARTIN has been cleared to proceed with modification of an F-16 to demonstrate the all-electric flight controls planned for the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF). The Advanced Fighter Technology Integration (AFTI)/ F-16 will be modified in 1998 for flight tests starting in January 1999. The six-month, 60-flight demonstration, under ...
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Airbus will offer RAF early VC10 replacement option
Airbus Industrie is to offer to replace the Royal Air Force's Vickers VC10 tanker/ transport fleet as early as the turn of the century, more than a decade before the service originally planned to retire the aircraft. The consortium is preparing to submit an unsolicited proposal to the ...