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Two more Ilyushin Il-76MFs will be tested
A further two Ilyushin Il-76MFs (upgrades of the basic Il-76 Candid military transport) are expected to join the flight-test programme in the first quarter of this year, with the manufacturer hopeful that the Russian air force will place an early order for at least another ten aircraft. The ...
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South Korea seeks funding for Black Hawk production
SOUTH Korea's armed forces are seeking funding in fiscal year 1998 to further extend licence-manufacturing of the Sikorsky UH-60P Black Hawk helicopter at Korean Air's Aerospace division. The Army is understood to be discussing ordering a third batch of between 60 and 80 UH-60 utility machines from Korean ...
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SAAF C-130 upgrade
Denel and Marshall Aero-space of the UK are teaming to upgrade South African Air Force (SAAF) Lockheed C-130 Hercules airlifters, including five aircraft being provided to the SAAF by the US Department of Defense. The first two US aircraft are ex-US Navy C-130Fs; the other three are ex-USAF C-130Bs. The ...
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Chinese Flankers
Pictured above are People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker fighter aircraft stationed at Wuhu, Anhui, in central China. The aircraft have been supplied with Vympel R-73 (AA-11 Archer) infra-red dogfight air-to-air missiles (AAMs) and the Vympel R-27R (AA10 Alamo ) semi-active-radar-guided beyond-visual-range AAMs. Also visible is a ...
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Defence
Some things never seem to change in European defence. Another 12 months have passed, and still the production investment (PI) go-ahead for the Eurofighter EF2000 has to be approved by the four nations participating in the programme. Germany once again is at the heart of the delay. Problems ...
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F-22 production restructured as overruns slow development
THE US AIR Force is to restructure the Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22 programme because of a development-cost overrun of more than $2 billion. Four pre-production verification (PPV) F-22s have been eliminated, and production ramp-up has been slowed to provide the $2.16 billion in extra funding required to complete the $18.7 billion ...
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The various claims for EF2000
Sir - I was interested to read the article "Terminal velocity" (Flight International, 13-19 November, P33) and in particular the reported Royal Air Force simulations with the Eurofighter EF2000/AIM-120B and its "poor exchange ratio" against Sukhoi Su-27 and Flanker Plus derivatives. This is at variance with claims made ...
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Goodnight MDC
BOEING'S $13.3 billion McDonnell Douglas (MDC) acquisition will make the company the world's largest manufacturer of military, as well as commercial, aircraft. While Lockheed Martin will remain the number one US defence contractor, Boeing will take up and expand MDC's mantle as the leading producer of combat aircraft. The merger ...
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Goodnight MDC
Combined, Boeing and McDonnell Douglas will become the world's largest manufacturer of combat and commercial aircraft.MDC expertise will lift Boeing's JSF hopes The main product line-up for the new Boeing BoeingMDC Civil business Airframes737MD-80 747MD-90 757MD-95 767MD-11 777 HelicoptersMD 500 Explorer BB609 (with Bell)MD 600 SpaceSpace StationDelta launcher US ...
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F-22 protege
A small US firm has been approved to produce composite parts for the Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22 fighter, under a "mentor-protegé" programme initiated by the Pentagon. Philadelphia-based C A Spalding, has been qualified to produce forward-fuselage components using resin-transfer moulding (RTM). F-22 prime-contractor Lockheed Martin and Dow-UT, which is producing RTM ...
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C-5 life-extension is 'affordable'
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA LOCKHEED MARTIN HAS completed a study commissioned by the USAir Force into upgrading the C-5 Galaxy transport to extend its service life until at least 2030. The company says that an upgrade costing $35 million or less per aircraft would reduce the C-5's operating cost per ...
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Details of JSF initial production are revealed
First details of the proposed initial production run of the US/UK Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) show that a sharp build-up is being planned, with more than 240 aircraft either due to be built, or to be under assembly, within six years of the first flight of development test aircraft. ...
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Kamov reveals Ka-52 MMW radar
Kamov has shown its Ka-52 two-seat derivative of the Ka-50 Hokum attack helicopter fitted with a mast-mounted "rotodome" intended to house a millimetre/centimetre-wave (MMW) radar. Although the development of the radar has previously been associated with St Petersburg-based Leninetz, Kamov says that the company responsible for the installation is Phazotron. ...
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Slovakian hokum
Slovakia is in the final stages of negotiating a deal with Russian state arms agency Rosvoorouzhenie, to purchase six Kamov Ka-50 Hokum attack helicopters. Some aircraft remain at the Progress production plant in Arseneyev. These were originally intended for the Russian armed forces, but have not been completed because of ...
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India to receive Krypton for its Sukhoi Su-30MKIs
The Indian air force will receive the Zvezda Kh-31A (AS-17 Krypton) supersonic anti-ship missile as part of the weapons package for its 40 Sukhoi Su-30MKI aircraft now on order. A model of the Indian air force aircraft displayed at the Aero India '96 show in Bangalore earlier this month showed ...
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Germany defers Helios II entry
Andrjez Jeziorski/MUNICH Germany has pushed back its entry into the joint Helios II/Horus reconnaissance-satellite programme with France by at least a year, but has committed to production of the Eurocopter Tiger and NH Industries NH90 military helicopters. The decisions were announced at the meeting of the ...
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Bell Boeing considers civil tilt-rotor as V-22 trainer
BELL BOEING PLANS to offer its Model 609 civil tilt-rotor to the US military as a trainer for crews destined to fly the V-22 tilt-rotor transport. Development of the nine-passenger 609 was launched in November, with a first flight planned for mid-1999 (Flight International, 27 November-3 December, ...
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History
The Tu-144 programme was started only in 1963, when the Soviet Government had told Tupolev that, although the equivalent Aerospatiale/ British Aerospace Concorde programme had started earlier, the Soviet aircraft should be the first to be flown - and it was. To speed things up, the design team ...
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Teledyne Ryan plans first engine runs of Global Hawk reconnaissance UAV
The Global Hawk Tier II Plus high-altitude reconnaissance platform was expected to have its first engine runs in the week beginning 16 December, as part of final preparations for completion in January and roll-out in early February 1997. The Global Hawk, with its 35.4m wingspan, was originally scheduled ...
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Derco Aerospace becomes virtual-propeller warehouse for the Pentagon
DERCO AEROSPACE is to provide "just-in-time" delivery of propeller parts to the US services. As the major subcontractor to Hamilton Standard on a "virtual prime-vendor" (VPV) contract awarded by the US Department of Defense under its Lean Logistics initiative the company will introduce commercial practices to military procurement. ...