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Military aircraft of the world
Flight International provides the latest data on the world's military aircraft. Douglas Barrie/Jennifer Pite/ Martin Fendt/LONDON Flight International's 1995 military-aircraft directory provides details on the major military fixed-wing aircraft now in service or underdevelopment. To provide a comprehensive guide in one volume, turbine-powered military ...
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Smiths looks to expand aerospace
SMITHS INDUSTRIES is looking for opportunities to expand its aerospace division, as the business begins to re-emerge from recession with stronger profits and cash. The growing confidence comes, as the aerospace unit turned in another solid performance, over the group's 1994/5 financial year to the end of September. ...
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France in talks with Pakistan over Mirages
Pakistan is looking to France to meet its future fighter needs, following the decision by senior US lawmakers to once again block the release of Lockheed Martin F-16s to the country. The Pakistani Prime Minister, Benazir Bhutto, disclosed on 25 October that discussions were under way with President ...
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UK launches stealth demonstrator project
Douglas Barrie Andrew Doyle/LONDON THE UK MINISTRY of Defence (MoD) has launched a highly sensitive programme to develop a third-generation stealth strike aircraft, under the High Agility Low Observable (HALO) project, which should produce a full-scale flying demonstrator by 2000. The HALO project is already ...
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Overhead protector
Political change highlights Israel's use of sophisticated UAVs Arie Egozi/TEL AVIV THE POSSIBLE Israeli withdrawal from the Golan Heights as part of a peace deal with Syria has put unmanned platforms high on the list of substitutes for the ground-based intelligence sensors, which Israel now operates along ...
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Alenia G222 hopes ride on C-130J deal
Andrea Spinelli/GENOA ITALIAN AIRCRAFT manufacturer Alenia is trying to launch a new variant of its G222 military transport on the back of the Italian air force's proposed purchase of the Lockheed Martin C-130J Hercules II. The company wants development of the G222J, as the derivative is ...
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Key location
Russia's Ahktubinsk flight-test centre is crucial to its testing capability. Alexander Velovich/MOSCOW ONE OF RUSSIA'S most sensitive air bases celebrated its 75th anniversary in September, against a background of economic turmoil and serious doubts about many of the programmes in development at the Ahktubinsk State Flight ...
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Meggitt displays Gulfstream deal
Andrew Doyle/FAREHAM GULFSTREAM HAS selected Meggitt Aerospace's secondary flight-display system as an option for its GIV and GV business jets, following the completion of flight trials earlier this year. The deal follows Cessna's recent decision to include the system in the Citation X business jet. The ...
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USAF tackles F-16 yaw problem
A US AIR FORCE TEST team at Edwards AFB, California, is investigating unusually high yaw rates on some Lantirn-equipped Block 40 versions of the Lockheed Martin F-16C. The F-16 Combined Test Force (CTF) is now into the second phase of an investigation which began when aircraft fitted with ...
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Germany begins MiG-29 maintenance work
THE RUSSO-GERMAN MIG AIRCRAFT Product Support (MAPS) joint venture has received the first Mikoyan MiG-29 fighter for maintenance work at its site in Manching, southern Germany. The aircraft delivered on 16 October, belongs to the German air force's 73 fighter squadron and is one of 24 MiG-29s in German service, ...
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F-22 cockpit passes USAF evaluation
PILOTS FROM US Air Force Air Combat Command have completed a "highly successful" evaluation of the cockpit design for the Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22. The seven-pilot cockpit-evaluation team consists of a customer review board established to ensure that the design meets USAF requirements. The part-task simulation test, the fifth ...
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French industry warns of crisis as budget cuts bite
THE FRENCH aerospace industry has launched a concerted campaign to head off the threat of further cuts in the country's defence budget, warning that a round of massive job cuts and plant closures will follow. The campaign comes in response to growing fears that the Chirac Government is ...
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Kuwaiti UH-60L purchase falters
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC Graham Warwick/ATLANTA SIKORSKY'S EFFORT to sell an armed version of its UH-60L Black Hawk to Kuwait is being blocked by the US Department of Defense (DoD), which is reluctant to release laser-designator systems for export to the Gulf state, say sources close ...
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Hunter becomes the hunted
THE US DEPARTMENT of Defense is deciding whether to follow a Joint Requirements Oversight Council's recommendation to terminate the $4 billion Hunter Joint Tactical unmanned air-vehicle (UAV) programme. The view of the influential Pentagon advisory body could be the final nail in the Hunter's coffin. The programme was ...
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Thais want F-18s with AMRAAM
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE THAILAND HAS ISSUED a formal letter of request (LoR) for an initial eight McDonnell Douglas (MDC) F-18C/Ds, with the proviso that the deal includes the Hughes AIM-120 advanced medium-range air-to-air missile (AMRAAM). The US Navy's foreign-military sales (FMS) office is now understood to ...
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Saudis open talks for 70 C-130Js
SAUDI ARABIA HAS opened talks with Lockheed Martin on the possible purchase of up to 70 C-130J Hercules 2 transports over ten years. The Saudi fleet of more than 40 C-130E/Hs would be replaced and additional KC-130 aerial-refuelling tankers acquired. Lockheed Martin rolled out the C-130J on 18 ...
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1.42 grounded by cash crisis
Douglas Barrie/LONDONAlexander Velovich/MOSCOW A CASH CRISIS is keeping Mikoyan's next-generation fighter, designated Object 1.42, from flying, according to Anatoly Belosvet, deputy general designer at MAPO-MiG. The funding problems are seriously jeopardising the programme's future, he says. Belosvet says that delays to the first flight are for ...
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Vehicle shortage delays Hunter/Predator fly-off
A COMPETITIVE fly-off between the TRW/Israel Aircraft Industries Hunter short-range unmanned air-vehicle (UAV) and the General Atomics Tier II Predator UAV scheduled for October has slipped into early 1996 because of the unavailability of flight-test vehicles. The Hunter is under fire from US Navy opponents who instead favour ...
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France urged to delay Rafale
THE INITIAL version of the Dassault Rafale fighter should be abandoned in favour of an advanced variant to be deployed a decade later than originally planned, according to French air force chief of staff, Gen Jean Rannou. With the defence budget under extreme pressure, Rannou has told the ...
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