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Mirage shot down during NATO air strikes
A FRENCH AIR force Dassault Mirage 2000 was shot down near Pale during a series of extensive air strikes launched by NATO against Bosnian Serb positions beginning 30 August. Targets attacked included radar sites and surface-to-air-missile batteries, ammunition dumps and communications infrastructure. According to NATO, the air strikes ...
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Economic warfare
THE TERRITORIES of the former Warsaw Pact are threatening to become a battlefield once again. This time however, it is going to be a dog fight for market share, rather than a Cold War confrontation. US and European combat-aircraft manufacturers, are excited by new market prospects, in the ...
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Israel/Turkey agree on F-4 improvement
ISRAEL AND TURKEY have finally signed a framework agreement covering a $600 million upgrade programme for the latter's McDonnell Douglas F-4E Phantoms. The upgrade programme will be led by Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) and covers the upgrade of 54 Turkish air force F-4s. The agreement was signed in ...
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USA tempts Poles and Czechs with F-16 upgrade work offer
Douglas Barrie/LONDON THE USA WILL offer the Czech Republic and Poland industrial participation in Lockheed Martin F-16 mid-life update (MLU) projects to try to deflect criticism that buying the US fighter could be damaging to the domestic-aerospace industries of the two eastern European countries. According to ...
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AAR
Ran Ronen has joined AAR of Elk Grove Village, Illinois, as senior consultant, representing the company with governments in the Middle East, Europe and the Far East. Ronen spent 27 years with the Israeli Air Force, where he retired with the rank of Brigadier General, and, for three years until ...
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France may offer Clemenceau to foreign navies
FRANCE IS holding preliminary talks with several governments, including those of Argentina, China and India, about selling its ageing aircraft carrier, the Clemenceau, after it is withdrawn from French navy service. The Clemenceau, is scheduled to be replaced by the nuclear-powered Charles de Gaulle, equipped with Dassault Rafale ...
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Four companies invited to bid for NFTC turboprop trainers
Graham Warwick/Atlanta BOMBARDIER WILL brief manufacturers in the early part of September on the turboprop-trainer requirements for the proposed industry-run NATO Flying Training in Canada (NFTC) programme. Four companies have been invited to the bidders' conference: Aerospatiale, Embraer, Pilatus and Raytheon. Aircraft being considered are ...
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MDC joins with Rockwell to offer Goshawk to the RAAF
MCDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) has teamed with Rockwell Australia to offer the T-45A Goshawk for the Royal Australian Air Force's (RAAF) Lead-In Fighter (LIF) trainer programme. The T-45 is one of three aircraft still in the running to replace the RAAF's Aermacchi MB.326H trainers; the others are the Aermacchi MB.339FD and ...
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Bosnian battleground
The British Army's Airmobile Brigade deploys on its first operational outing, in Croatia. Tim Ripley/PLOCE A senior 24 Airmobile Brigade officer explains the rationale for dispatching the British Army brigade to reinforce the United Nat ions Protection Force (UNPROFOR) in the former Yugoslavia, saying: "We give ...
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Still kicking
Upgraded with a powerful engine, the Pacific Aerospace CT4 trainer is enjoying remarkable longevity Once aboard, the student is exposed to a military-cockpit ambience Paul Phelan/HAMILTON BUILT FOR THE FLOURISHING flying-school market of the early 1960s, Australia's successful Victa Airtourer and Air cruiser trainer aircraft ...
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Lockheed wins $12 million image contract from FSI
Lockheed Martin has won a contract worth more than $12 million from FlightSafety International (FSI) to supply seven Compu-Scene SE2000 Plus image generators to upgrade CAE-built Lockheed C-5 Galaxy simulators used by the US Air Force (Flight International, 9-15 August, P21). Deliveries will begin in May 1996 and the first ...
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Mil unveils all-weather Havoc
MIL EXPECTS to fly the Mi-28N millimetre-wave (MMW)-radar-equipped all-weather attack variant of its Mi-28 Havoc helicopter before the end of 1995. The aircraft, displayed for the first time at MosAero, showed numerous external differences, the most notable of which is the mast-mounted MMW-radar housing. The sensor ...
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RAAF C-130S Get APN-241
Westinghouse will install APN-241 advanced weather and navigation radar on 12 Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) C-130 transports under a $5 million contract which also includes spares. Delivery will be completed in January. Plans call for retrofit on C-130Hs and use on the new C-130J, which the RAAF says it ...
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Pemco
Gen Thomas Richards (US Air Force, retired) has been elected to the board of maintenance and modifying company Precision Standard in Birmingham, Alabama. He replaces Adm Wesley McDonald who retired in May. Richards is also an international aviation and defence consultant and holds corporate directorships. John Zubeckis becomes president and ...
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Jayhawk first
US Navy pilots have begun training on the US Air Force's Raytheon T-1A Jayhawk multi-engine trainers. The joint airlift/tank/maritime training aircraft is a forerunner to joint primary training, which will begin once the Joint Primary Aircraft Training System (JPATS) enters service. The Raytheon Beech MkII has been selected as the ...
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Northrop Grumman details IDECM bid
Northrop Grumman has revealed details of its proposal for the joint US Navy/Air Force integrated defensive electronic-countermeasures (IDECM) requirement. The company is one of four bidders for the contract to develop a jamming system for the USN's McDonnell Douglas F-18E/F and various USAF aircraft, including the McDonnell Douglas ...
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Loral recorder gains double approval
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA LORAL DATA Systems has received US and European certification for its Fairchild A200S solid-state cockpit-voice recorder (CVR). The Sarasota, Florida-based company believes the A200S to be the first 2h-capacity CVR to meet the latest Eurocae ED-56A certification standard. The ED-56A sets new requirements for ...
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Mighty Moose
It has been a testing time for the C-17, but the military transporter is winning new friends. Guy Norris/MILDENHALL THE McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) C-17 military transport has earned the nickname "The Moose" because of its impressive size and large, antler-like winglets. After years of doubt, it also seems ...
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AIDC seeks Taiwanese air force support for IDF trainer variant
Paul Lewis/TAIWAN TAIWAN'S Aero Industry Development Centre (AIDC) is pressing the air force to support the development of an advanced trainer variant of the Ching-Kuo Indigenous Defence Fighter (IDF). AIDC is proposing a "downgraded" tandem-seat version of the IDF to meet the Taiwanese air force's requirement ...
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Lockheed Martin makes final offer to RAAF
LOCKHEED MARTIN has presented its final proposal to replace Royal Australian Air Force C-130s with the new C-130J Hercules and announced its first offset agreements. The proposal is for 12 aircraft to replace RAAF C-130Es, with options taking the potential total to 36, including five aircraft to replace Royal New ...