All Fixed-Wing news – Page 1392
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Championing United
After sweeping consolidation, where does UTC go next? Kevin O'Toole/LONDON George David shows a near faultless eye for detail as he skips between the United Technologies (UTC) business units summoning up market statistics and programme information. As president of a group, which spreads from aircraft ...
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Belgian air force completes testing of Carapace ECM
THE BELGIAN air force has completed pre-production testing of the Dassault-built Carapace threat-warning system. Delivery of the first sets for installation on Lockheed F-16A/Bs, starting with No 2 Wing at Florennes, will start by the second quarter of the year. In all, 100 aircraft are to be ...
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Backing down
Russian air attacks on Chechnya seem to have failed. Simon Elliott/LONDON Alexander Velovich/MOSCOW Russian president Boris Yeltsin's 4 January decree to end the bombing of Grozny, the capital of break-away republic Chechnya, brought to an end, however temporarily, what appears to have been a singularly unsuccessful operation. ...
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Malaysia plans to sell F-5E/Fs after MiG-29s enter service
MALAYSIA IS looking to find a buyer for up to 15 of its air force's Northrop Grumman F-5E/F fighters, which are due to be replaced by Mikoyan MiG-29s later this year. The F-5s, are planned to be withdrawn from service, by January 1996 and disposed of according to ...
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Italian air force faces tough 12 months as cash cuts bite
THE ITALIAN air force's first leased Royal Air Force Panavia Tornado F.3 Air Defence Variant (ADV) fighters will be deployed with the 36th wing at Gioia del Colle air base in June, marking one of the service's few high points over the next year as defence budget cuts bite harder. ...
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Boeing buys Litton Precision Gear
BOEING HAS PURCHASED Litton Precision Gear, the Chicago-based helicopter-transmission manufacturer, to "...ensure a reliable supply of high-quality gears" for its main helicopter lines. The former Litton Systems division employs 170 people and is the principal supplier of transmissions for Boeing CH-47 Chinook transport and McDonnell Douglas AH-64 Apache ...
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Taiwan deal signals SJ30 go-ahead
Ramon Lopez/MARTINSBURG SWEARINGEN SJ30 light business-jets will be rolled off the final assembly line at the Eastern West Virginia Regional Airport in the first quarter of 1997. Aircraft production was made possible by the recent formation of a venture between San Antonio, Texas-based Swearingen Aircraft ...
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Lockheed and Taiwan expect to seal F-16 deal
LOCKHEED EXPECTS soon to conclude the first co-production contract with Taiwan for the manufacture of F-16 fighter airframe components, as part of wider offset package attached to the 1992 sale of 150 aircraft. The contract, estimated to be worth up to $40 million, will cover the production of ...
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MIG training
Some 23 Royal Malaysian Air Force pilots have begun a four-and-a-half month Mikoyan MiG-29 training course at Russia's Krasnodar military pilots and technicians school. The pilots will accumulate 25 flight hours. An additional seven Malaysian officers, are now being trained at the Zhukovsky Military Engineering Academy, in Moscow. ...
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Long-Lead Longbow
Martin Marietta and Westinghouse have received $31 million from the US Army for long-lead production items for 15 Longbow fire-control radar. Options to the contract total an additional $10 million. The team is developing the millimetre-wave fire-control radar and fire-and-forget radar-guided Hellfire missile for use on the McDonnell Douglas Helicopter ...
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Horizons ventures into Malaysia
HORIZONS Technology (HTI) of San Diego, California, has formed a joint venture with Kuala Lumpur-based Zetro to provide aircraft-engineering, avionics-integration and software-development services in Malaysia and the Asia-Pacific region. The agreement to form Zetro Technologies follows the selection of HTI to supply mission-planning equipment for the Royal Malaysian ...
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S Africa offers to extend Singapore link
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE SOUTH AFRICA has offered Singapore the use of its training and test sites, as part of a move to strengthen defence ties and industrial co-operation, between the two countries. The offer was made during a five-day visit to South Africa in 1994, by Singapore ...
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Bell with bite
The AH-1W SuperCobra is the basis of the Bell/ GEC-Marconi Venom Cobra, a candidate for the British Army attack helicopter Peter Gray/DALLAS My first pull-up in to the hover in the Bell AH-1W SuperCobra combat helicopter was adequate, but not completely satisfactory, so I landed ...
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Dutch defer helicopter decision
THE NETHERLANDS Government has delayed its choice of a battlefield helicopter until the middle of this month in order to "clarify" the offset deals offered by McDonnell Douglas (MDC) for its AH-64 Apache, and Eurocopter for the Tiger. At stake is an order for 32 helicopters worth up ...
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London firefighters assess helicopters
THE LONDON Fire Brigade (LFB) in the UK is considering whether to use helicopters in emergency operations. Tenders are being invited for a study contract to evaluate whether a helicopter could be useful. Depending on the results, an operational trial may follow. The Brigade says that ...
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Herculean support
Providing back-up for the world's Lockheed C-130 Hercules is a big and growing business Graham Warwick/ATLANTA With more than 1,800 Lockheed C-130 Hercules transports in service with 68 countries, supporting the popular transport is big business - and not just for its manufacturer. Independent companies ...
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Indonesia earmarks more cash for military build-up
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE INDONESIA is planning the procurement of over $2 billion worth of military equipment over the next five years, including more fighter and trainer aircraft, helicopters, missiles and radar. The future purchases are contained in the country's 1994-9 strategic plan, which is subject to ...
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Rafael picks Northrop for Litening partner
NORTHROP HAS been selected by Israel's Rafael as its US partner for marketing the Litening navigation and targeting pod. The US Company will market the pod to the US Air Force and other air forces, operating US-built fighters. Martin Marietta had also offered to market the ...
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New C-130J deals due soon
LOCKHEED EXPECTS to receive a contract for the first two US Air Force C-130J Hercules IIs in February. At about the same time, the company should receive a request for proposals from Australia for 12 stretched C-130J-30s. Canada is also "very interested" in the aircraft, Lockheed says, ...
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Pentagon presses for approval of Singapore DC-10 tanker
THE US DEPARTMENT of State is being pressed, by the Pentagon and McDonnell Douglas (MDC) to approve the sale of two converted DC-10-30 tankers to Singapore, to support its fleet of Lockheed F-16 fighters. The Singapore air force has a requirement for up to three tanker aircraft, ...