All Fixed-wing articles – Page 226
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AnalysisANALYSIS: How Elbit plans to expand its UK activities
Not content merely with being Israel's largest private defence contractor, Elbit Systems has also long been focused on building its global footprint, by establishing local subsidiaries, acquiring complementary companies or forming joint ventures.
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US Army Europe calls for more CH-47 blade folding kits
The US Army needs more blade folding kits to help deploy its Boeing CH-47 Chinooks, the service’s deputy chief of staff for NATO operations says this week.
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Sikorsky suggests MH-60 crossdeck
As the US Navy looks to add more capabilities onto its MH-60R, Sikorsky could keep the Seahawk’s avionics while lightening the aircraft’s load with a new composite cabin airframe.
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Army maintains priority for light FVL variant
The US Army is holding steady on its need for a light, armed reconnaissance helicopter in the Future Vertical Lift programme, despite limited funding and a joint requirement across the services that calls for a medium-lift aircraft.
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ANALYSIS: How LightningStrike is challenging convention
A year after taking on one of the US Defense Advanced Projects Agency’s (DARPA) more challenging assignments, Aurora Flight Sciences has frozen the design of the vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) X-plane, which is now designated as the XV-24A LightningStrike.
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NewsGripen tops shortlist for Bulgarian fighter deal
Bulgaria's government has announced the Saab Gripen C/D as the preferred candidate in the country’s new combat aircraft competition.
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Fury ramps up flight tests ahead of LRIP
Lockheed Martin is ramping up long-range endurance tests on its Fury UAV ahead of its low-rate production later this year, clocking in more than 200 flight hours since May 2016.
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NewsT-X competitive field could expand, Saab suggests
The Boeing/Saab team which is vying to win the US Air Force's T-X advanced jet trainer recapitalisation contest is on track to accumulate all required information by the end of this quarter, according to the Swedish manufacturer.
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NewsSaab CEO confirms order for third GlobalEye aircraft
Saab's early 2017 order for an airborne early warning and control system aircraft involves an additional example of its GlobalEye product, company chief executive Håkan Buskhe has revealed.
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F-35 will not attend Paris Air Show
The Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter will not make another trip across the pond this summer for the Paris air show, the joint programme office confirmed this week.
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Israel seeks automatic collision avoidance for F-16s
Israel's air force is negotiating the purchase of Lockheed Martin's automatic ground collision avoidance system for its F-16 fleet.
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NewsMeteor integration gets boost for UK F-35s
MBDA has been awarded a £41 million ($52.6 million) contract to begin preparing its Meteor beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile for integration with Lockheed Martin's F-35B for the UK.
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US Navy launches review of pilot oxygen supply
A top US Navy admiral and former F/A-18 fighter pilot will lead a comprehensive review of recent reports of pilots suffering oxygen deprivation or cockpit pressurisation issues on Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornets and T-45 Goshawk trainers.
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PoziDrone spins up quadcopter testing
Aeronautics Defense Systems' PoziDrone subsidiary is conducting flight tests using a trio of quadcopter designs, having opted to develop such systems to fulfil military and civilian applications.
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ANALYSIS: US Army builds a Black Hawk bridge to Future Vertical Lift
The US Army's Future Vertical Lift programme is bold - but costly and distant; meanwhile, an upgrade of the venerable UH-60 Black Hawk is under way
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NewsBoeing/Saab fly second T-X test aircraft
The second T-X aircraft built by Boeing and Saab has completed a 1h first flight, one month after at least three bidding teams submitted proposals for the US Air Force’s Northrop T-38 trainer replacement contract.
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GAO warns of one-year, $1.7 billion delay for F-35
Development testing of the Lockheed Martin F-35 could be delayed by 12 months and cost another $1.7 billion, the US Government Accountability Office (GA0) warns in a new report published on 24 April.
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NewsIsrael welcomes latest trio of F-35s
Three additional Lockheed Martin F-35s landed at Nevatim air base in Israel on 23 April, taking the number of fifth-generation fighters to arrive in the nation to five.
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ANALYSIS: For Army tiltrotor challenge, Bell has Valor
With first flight approaching, Bell Helicopter is waging a full-on marketing blitz to support its V-280 Valor military tiltrotor
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Defiant's first flight falls behind
Sikorsky-Boeing’s SB-1 Defiant has fallen months behind its scheduled first flight in the US Army’s Joint Multi-Role Technology Demonstration (JMR-TD), even as Bell Helicopter’s V-280 Valor marches toward its first flight in September.