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Electronic leg-up
James Roche recasts aircraft maker Northrop Grummaninto 21st century electronics house. Ramon Lopez/BALTIMORE NORTHROP Grumman's $3 billion acquisition of Westinghouse's defence-electronics business unit earlier this year has given the US aerospace firm "the fourth leg of the stool" upon which Northrop Grumman intends to evolve into a premier ...
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Fighter duo
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has notified Dassault Aviation and Lockheed Martin that their Rafale and F-16, respectively, are the finalists in the country's competition for up to 80 new fighters. The McDonnell Douglas F-15 has been officially eliminated from the contest. Lockheed Martin, which is offering the UAE an ...
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AlliedSignal wins USAF GPS order
ALLIEDSIGNAL Avionics has been awarded a $2 million contract to supply the US Air Force with 1,685 global-positioning system (GPS) receivers. The equipment, an AlliedSignal Aerospace hand-held KLX 100 GPS receiver and a moving-map display will be used on USAF transports. The company must provide the equipment by ...
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MDC has designs on replacing Lockheed Martin's Hercules
McDONNELL Douglas's (MDC's) Phantom Works has begun design work on a replacement for the Lockheed Martin C-130 Hercules to meet the US Air Force's projected need for an Advanced Theater Transport beyond 2020. The tilt-wing design has emerged from the company's advanced transportation group at the Phantom Works ...
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USA remains confident of Indonesia F-16 deal
US OFFICIALS ARE confident that Indonesia will proceed with the planned purchase of nine Lockheed Martin F-16A/Bs, despite Washington's decision to postpone Congressional notification, until after the November US presidential election. "As soon as the election is over, this will move at a lightning pace," says a US ...
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UK and USA discuss JSF technology deal
THE UK AND US Governments will negotiate a memorandum of understanding (MoU) covering low-observable technologies for the Joint Strike Fighter after the award of two demonstrator contracts in November. The Government-to-Government agreement would cover the UK's access to "low-observable" requirements and capabilities. The agreement could form an annexe ...
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JPATS pilots
Two US military pilots - one Air Force and one Navy - have completed training and will participate in qualification, test and evaluation of the Raytheon Beech/Pilatus PC-9 MkII trainer under development for the Joint Primary Aircraft Training System (JPATS). Source: Flight International
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IAS
Custom-completions company International Aviation Services (IAS), of Fort Worth, Texas, has appointed Anthony Sanchez director of international sales. He has more than 20 years experience in aviation marketing. J R Jones is named director of sales. His background is in international maintenance and refurbishing for airlines, the military and VIPs/heads ...
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ML Aviation snaps up Frazer-Nash
ML AVIATION HAS acquired the product range of Frazer-Nash Defence Systems, a division of the UK's Airscrew Howden. The move is aimed at establishing the firm as "a world leader in the design, development and manufacture of airborne weapons carriage and release systems". ML Aviation, a subsidiary of ...
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Expansion helps Lockheed to more wins
LOCKHEED MARTIN'S win rate on competitions is now running at around 60%, as the group begins to take full advantage of the new scope and range of its merged operations says chief executive Norman Augustine. The rate, which is around double the US industry average, is already being ...
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Slow slow, quick quick, slow
The Sukhoi Su-37 made a spectacular impact. Alexander Velovich/MOSCOW SPECTACULAR EVIDENCE that the Russian aircraft industry is still alive came to the 1996 Farnborough air show with the international debut of Sukhoi's thrust-vectoring Su-37 Flanker. The aircraft is a further development of the Su-27/35 fighter series, ...
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Sukhoi plans to fly foreplane-equipped two-seat Su-30MK
Douglas Barrie/LONDON SUKHOI EXPECTS to fly a foreplane-equipped derivative, of its basic two-seat Su-30 in the next few months, according to senior managers at the Irkutsk manufacturing plant, where the prototype is being built. The canard design was first associated with the Su-27K and Su-27M. Sukhoi ...
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Swedish defence unit
THE SWEDISH DEFENCE Materiel Administration, FMV, has taken delivery of the first re-engined Saab 105 jet trainer. The aircraft, carrying the Swedish air force designation SK60, has new Williams Rolls FJ44 engines. A test aircraft, used by Saab Military Aircraft, has also been delivered to FMV for further ...
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Dassault raises stakes in Eastern Europe bids
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH FRANCE HAS RAISED the stakes in the competition to secure a string of fighter-aircraft contracts in Eastern Europe by offering to sell its latest air-to-air weapons as part of any deal. US rivals have not been cleared by their Government to go beyond technical ...
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MDC demonstrates F-15 with SEAD
McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) is flight-testing an F-15 equipped with a system to locate and identify enemy radars. Although the US Air Force has decided not to proceed with development of the precision direction-finding (PDF) system for the F-15, Congress has allocated funds to complete the demonstration/ validation phase now under ...
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Bell rings up sales for 427s during show
BELL HELICOPTER Textron won firm orders for 22 Model 427 light twin-turbine helicopters during the Farnborough air show. Orders for the eight-seat helicopter were placed by 11 Pacific Rim customers, seven European, three Middle Eastern and one from the USA. "These firm orders for a helicopter ...
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Cruise missiles miss Iraqi targets
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC NEARLY ONE QUARTER of the 44 Tomahawk land-attack cruise missiles (TLAMs) and Boeing AGM-86C conventional air-launched cruise missiles (CALCMs) launched at Iraqi targets during raids on 3 September failed to strike their intended targets, says the US Department of Defense. Thirty-one Tomahawks and ...
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US GAO fears tanker-aircraft shortfall
ALTHOUGH US military refuelling-aircraft meet current needs, satisfying future requirements may be difficult, concludes a recent US General Accounting Office (GAO) report. The US Department of Defense operates almost 900 tanker aircraft, including 550 Boeing KC-135s and 60 McDonnell Douglas KC-10s, which also have a cargo role. The ...
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MDC reveals KC-17 cargo/tanker details
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) has unveiled details of proposed KC-17 cargo/tanker versions of its C-17 transport, which could form the bulk of as many as 50 aircraft predicted as potential foreign military sales. Details of the aircraft configuration were given to senior British Army ...
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Crazy Hawk RC-7Bs go to South Korea
TWO HEAVILY MODIFIED US Army de Havilland RC-7B airborne reconnaissance aircraft have been deployed for operations in South Korea. The aircraft have been fitted with the Crazy Hawk ARL-M (airborne-radar low-multi-function) radar system derived from the Hughes-made HiSAR high-resolution ground-mapping radar. In conjunction with California Microwave, ...