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German Tornado ECRs head for Bosnia
THE GERMAN AIR FORCE is about to deploy Panavia Tornado Electronic Combat and Reconnaissance (ECR) aircraft to Piacenza air base in Italy, to support UN operations in Bosnia. The aircraft, from Aufkl„rungsgescwhader 51, have been given a mid-grey camouflage scheme in preparation for their use in support of Operation Deny ...
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Apache wins UK helicopter battle
Douglas Barrie/LONDON AFTER A TWO-and-a-half-year battle, the Westland/McDonnell Douglas WAH-64D Apache Longbow has won the British Army's attack-helicopter requirement. The UK Government announced its decision on 13 July. The winner secures a deal worth some £2.5 billion ($4 billion), while the losers - GEC/Bell, with the ...
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UK will abandon LR Trigat project
THE UK MINISTRY of Defence has signalled its intent to abandon the collaborative Long Range (LR) Trigat anti-tank missile programme at the end of the development phase, and writing off the better part of some £220 million ($350 million). The future of the Long Range Trigat was intimately ...
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NASA plans to test forward-looking helicopter radar
NASA WILL flight-test Honeywell's HG9500-based multi-function radar in its Sikorsky UH-60 helicopter testbed in late 1995, to demonstrate the unit's terrain- and obstacle-warning capabilities. The UH-60 Rotorcraft Aircrew Systems Concepts Airborne Laboratory will carry the radar as part of the NASA Ames Research Center's automated nap-of-the Earth (ANOE) ...
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Planar Advance wins first contract for new colour display
US DISPLAY manufacturer Planar Advance has received its first contract for a colour display using field-sequential device (FSD) technology. The contract is for a 75mm monitor to be incorporated into a gunnery and missile simulator being developed by Thomson Training and Simulation France and Alcatel STR Switzerland for the Swiss ...
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Thomson comes back to low-cost market with helicopter trainer
Julian Moxon/PARIS THOMSON TRAINING & Simulation (TTS) has re-entered the low-cost helicopter-trainer market with a fixed-base device primarily aimed at military customers. The device is dedicated to visual flight-rules/instrument flight-rules ab initio training. TTS France military programmes director Emanuel d'Ayguesveves says that it will meet what ...
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Sights on expansion
Israeli company EL-OP is one manufacturer content to remain in the defence market. Arie Egozi/TEL AVIV WHEN THE FIRST photographs from the Offeq 3, Israel's intelligence satellite, were transmitted to the ground in April, the experts were more than surprised. The small, lightweight, satellite offers only a limited ...
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Fighting chance
Despite opposition, there is strong support in the UK for air-combat- tactics training for helicopter pilots. Douglas Barrie/LONDON TRAINING FOR rotary-wing air-combat tactics (ACT) is a contentious issue: some argue that the dangers outweigh the rewards. Those critical of ACT should try explaining their ...
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Lockheed Martin takes on Argentinian service depot
LOCKHEED MARTIN formally assumed management for the former Argentinian Government-run Area De Material Cordoba aircraft factory and maintenance depot on 1 July, as part of its agreement to upgrade 36 McDonnell Douglas A-4M Skyhawks. Eighteen A-4Ms will be upgraded in Cordoba by the new company, LAASA (Lockheed Aircraft ...
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Westland plans to replace Lynx blade-assembly part
Douglas Barrie/LONDON A CRITICAL PART of the Westland Lynx main-rotor- blade assembly is being replaced on a precautionary basis, with the UK manufacturer admitting to being "confused" over the underlying cause of a fatal Lynx accident in September 1994. The loss of a British Army Air ...
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U-2 offer revived for RAF
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES LOCKHEED MARTIN is to hold exploratory talks with the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) later this month over the possible sale of the U-2 reconnaissance aircraft to the Royal Air Force. The talks are thought to be unrelated to briefings which Lockheed Martin ...
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CAE will supply MiG-29 trainers to Malaysia
CAE ELECTRONICS has been awarded a C$48 million ($35 million) contract to supply two Mikoyan MiG-29 simulators to Malaysia. The contract, placed by Malaysian prime contractor Sapura Holdings, is for one operational flight-trainer and one full-mission simulator for the Malaysian air force's MiG-29M fighters. Each trainer will have ...
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F-22 derivatives study under way
LOCKHEED MARTIN AND BOEING have begun studying derivatives of the F-22 air-superiority fighter under a 24-month, $9.5 million, US Air Force contract (Flight International, 15-21 March). Missions under study are strategic attack/interdiction; lethal and non-lethal suppression of enemy air-defences; reconnaissance; and surveillance. The study is in two phases. The first, ...
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JAST avionics competition to be launched in August
A REQUEST FOR proposals covering the first avionics for the US Joint Advanced Strike Technology (JAST) aircraft programme is expected to be issued around mid-August. The JAST programme office says that the design, research and technology maturation contracts will probably be awarded on 10 November. The effort covers ...
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Thailand poll jeopardisesair force's fighter plans
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE THE ROYAL THAI Air Force's (RTAF) plans to purchase new fighter aircraft are under threat with the election of a new coalition civilian Government, and a possible shake-up of Thailand's military leadership. Thailand's main opposition party, Chart Thai, defeated the Democrat Government of ...
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Matra stealth missile unveiled
Douglas Barrie/LONDON Gilbert Sedbon/PARIS MATRA HAS BEGUN design and development work on a stealthy next-generation hypersonic attack missile, with wind tunnel models of the design having already been tested. The ramjet-powered missile has a highly chinned fore-section, with the nose section blending into a ...
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USN wants jammer in Bosnian F-18s
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA THE US NAVY IS seeking approval to install the cancelled ITT/Westinghouse ALQ-165 airborne self-protection jammer (ASPJ) in 12 US Marine Corps McDonnell Douglas F-18s in operation over Bosnia. The move follows the shooting down on 2 June of a US Air Force Lockheed Martin F-16 ...
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French firms face fight over defence cuts
FRANCE'S DEFENCE aerospace industry is bracing itself for a bruising battle with the new government over what may amount to swingeing cuts in defence expenditure over the next five years. Programmes in the firing line include the multi-national Future Large Aircraft, the NH90 military utility helicopter, the M5 ...
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Taking over
As the US military moves out of the Philippines, so FedEx moves in. Paul Lewis/SUBIC BAY WHEN THE US NAVY pulled out of the Subic Bay naval base in the Philippines in November 1992, the local Olongapo City authorities inherited an $8 billion military base ...
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Taking over
As the US military moves out of the Philippines, so FedEx moves in. Paul Lewis/SUBIC BAY WHEN THE US NAVY pulled out of the Subic Bay naval base in the Philippines in November 1992, the local Olongapo City authorities inherited an $8 billion military base ...