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UK backs the Eurofighter
THE UK GOVERNMENT has committed "in principle" to the production phase of the Eurofighter EF2000 just weeks before two German Government committees sit to deliberate a critical funding decision for the fighter. The German budget and defence committees are due to sit later this month to consider the ...
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US about-turn on MoU signing threatens launch of KTX-II
THE US DEPARTMENT of Defense (DoD) has at the last minute withdrawn a memorandum of understanding (MoU) which was to have been signed by South Korea. The move threatens the Samsung KTX-II advanced trainer/light combat aircraft launch. According to informed US sources, the DoD's Defence Security Assistance Agency ...
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Boeing offers B-52 update
BOEING IS TO submit a revised proposal to the US Air Force by the end of this month to re-engine B-52H bombers with leased Rolls-Royce RB.211-535E4 turbofans and struts. An unsolicited proposal was submitted in July, but Boeing Defense &Space president Jerry King confirms: "We are in the ...
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US DoD extends European JSF briefing
THE US DEPARTMENT of Defense (DoD) has briefed seven European nations, including Eurofighter partners Germany, Italy and Spain, as well as Australia and Canada on its Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) project. The UK is the only foreign partner in the JSF programme. The DoD's JSF programme office provided ...
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BAe briefs Germany on Storm Shadow
BRITISH AEROSPACE has briefed the German defence ministry on its Storm Shadow derivative of the Matra Apache stand-off missile in the wake of its victory in the Royal Air Force's conventional stand-off missile (CASOM) programme. BAe officials visited Bonn in August. Germany has a similar requirement to the ...
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Snakes alive! What will they lose next?
The Exhibition police station, manned by the Ministry of Defence Police, is the repository for Lost and Found Property during the Show. Normally they re-unite owners with their wallets, passes, cameras and mobile phones - including one which was left on the roof of the owner's car as he ...
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Portillo calls for foreign tie-ups
UK Defence Secretary Michael Portillo underlined the need for international collaboration in the aerospace industry during his visit to Farnborough yesterday. Portillo says the British industry must find more and new ways of collaborating in Europe and the US to capitalise on its strengths. "The way of the ...
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Radar footprint
The mystery of the radar-evading capabilities of the super-secret Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit bomber intensified yesterday when Farnborough air traffic controllers reported they had tracked the aircraft during its brief appearance at Farnborough on Monday. A National ATC spokesman says the Siemens Plessy Watchman radar on the show site ...
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Hawkeye in bid for radar paltform role
Northrop Grumman's E-2C Hawkeye is to continue with its sales offensive in southern Europe in spite of the company's link-up with Lockheed Martin, announced this week at Farnborough, to market alternative airborne early warning (AEW) platforms. "The Hawkeye is going to Madrid, Ankara and Athens after Farnborough," says Robert ...
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US fighter hopefuls see role for BAe
British Aerospace looks likely to take part in the new US Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) programme whoever wins this plum contract, says Boeing's defence and space chief Jerry King. Speaking at Farnborough, King was full of praise for the role BAe could play in the next generation of US ...
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CJ-130J on Show - by satellite
Original plans by Lockheed Martin to bring the C-130J Hercules 2 to Farnborough had to be scrapped because the programme is behind schedule - but the company has shown the aircraft at the flight-test base in Marietta, Georgia, via a live satellite hook-up. Lockheed Martin is saying only that ...
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Dowty fuels a SAAB deal
Dowty Aerospace of the UK has signed a contract worth approximately £7.5 million ($11.7 million) with Saab Military Aircraft for a health monitoring system on the Gripen. The new system improves survival, should inflight damage occur to the fuel system, by constantly monitoring the aircraft's fuel flow and automatically ...
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Training on onteractive system
Canadian training systems manufacturer CAE Electronics brings its Interactive Tactical Environmental Management System (ITEMS) to Farnborough. Military training requires ever more realistic interactive environments. Recent demand has been for improved joint exercise scenarios. ITEMS aims to push trainees to the limits with a range of features which, ...
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Boeing, R-R in bid to re-engine USAF B-52s
A "revolutionary deal" to equip the USAF's fleet of B-52 strategic bombers with at least $1 billion worth of leased Rolls-Royce engines is looking good, says Jerry King, president of Boeing Defense and Space. "The USAF is very enthusiastic," he said on Wednesday at Farnborough. Under the deal, ...
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Lockheed - Alenia JV targets airlifter market
Lockheed Martin has now signed a joint venture agreement with Alenia to develop and market a tactical airlifter based on the Italian company's G222. The new aircraft model, called the C-27J, will take the cockpit and advanced systems of the Lockheed Martin C-130J Hercules, now in flight-test, and integrate ...
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Gripen partners eye foreign sales potential
The most likely export customers for the Gripen fighter remain eastern/central Europe, South America and both the Middle and Far East, say joint venture partners Saab and British Aerospace. Following the signing of a memorandum of understanding, the Hungarian air force was thought to be the most likely candidate ...
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Growth areas
The overhaul and repair of components has become a major growth area for Electron Beam Process (H3/B17). The company provides an electron beam welding service to the aircraft and defence industries and has expanded its expertise from general prime production to include the overhaul side of the business. ...
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Jernas pokes hole in the Stealth's cloak of secrecy
RAF Regiment Jernas missile crews had America's super-secret B-2 Stealth bomber firmly in their sights on Monday during the aircraft's brief appearance over Farnborough, perhaps revealing cracks in it's protective cloak. Using the BAe Jernas thermal optical tracking system, they acquired and targeted the Northrop Grumman Spirit at a ...
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Canada set to welcome Nato flying trainees
Brig Gen Clark Little of the Canadian Forces Air Command reckons that a go-ahead decision on the proposed Nato Flying Training in Canada (NFTC) programme is a mere 60 days away. A joint project between the Canadian Forces, Bombardier, British Aerospace and Embraer, NFTC plans to put the abundant ...
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Koreans on the lookout for sales force to market trainer
Daewoo Heavy Industries has just begun basic design on the fifth prototype of the KTX-1 trainer and is gearing up for the full scale production necessary to meet planned delivery deadlines at the turn of the century. Duck-Joo Ra, managing director at the company's Aerospace R&D Centre, says the ...