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NewsMaiden flight for M-345 trainer
Leonardo performed a 30min maiden flight of its Aermacchi M-345 trainer on 29 December from its Venegono Superiore facility in northern Italy.
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NewsMexico receives special mission Citations
Bird Aerosystems has supplied the Mexican air force with an undisclosed number of airborne surveillance intelligence and observation (ASIO) systems based on Cessna Citation aircraft.
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NewsLeonardo acquires full ownership of SD-150 Hero UAV
Leonardo has acquired the remaining shares of Sistemi Dinamici from IDS of Italy, providing it with full ownership of the SD-150 Hero unmanned helicopter programme.
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NewsIsrael retires F-16A fleet
The Israeli air force (IAF) has officially retired its Lockheed Martin F-16A Netz.
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FORECASTS: What's in store for 2017?
As the old saying goes, anybody who can tell the future should keep quiet about it and quietly get rich on the stock market. Here at Flightglobal, we are naturally quite confident of our forecasting ability but instinctively generous with our opinions. Herewith our best horizon-scanning guestimates for 2017:
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OpinionOPINION: Trump's unfriendly fire threatens F-35
In regular instalments of 144 characters or less, the incoming US president appears committed to publicly renegotiating the terms of major defence contracts.
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USAF solicits final bids for $6.9 billion JSTARS deal
The US Air Force has launched the bidding phase in a $6.9 billion competition to select a replacement the Northrop Grumman E-8C JSTARS ground surveillance fleet with a business jet-class aircraft.
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Russian military identifies crashed Tu-154B
Russia’s defence ministry has identified the military Tupolev Tu-154 which came down in the Black Sea after departing Sochi.
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Over 90 on board crashed Russian military Tu-154
Ninety-one personnel are on board a Russian Tupolev Tu-154 which crashed while en route to Syria.
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NewsPICTURE: First production-standard Scorpion gets airborne
Textron AirLand has completed the debut flight of its first production-conforming Scorpion, with the multi-mission platform having received numerous enhancements over its earlier prototype.
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China’s second FC-31 takes flight
Chinese defence websites have published footage of what is apparently the second AVIC FC-31 Gyrfalcon fighter aircraft.
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Trump calls Boeing to price Super Hornet against F-35
President elect Donald Trump has hit the F-35 programme once again, this time courting Lockheed Martin competitor Boeing for the Joint Strike Fighter mission.
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Pentagon prioritises EP-3 role for Triton
When the US Navy’s Triton achieves initial operational capability in 2018, it will mark a soft debut for the maritime UAV, which will reach its full potential three years later.
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NewsPICTURE: Long-range test success for Norwegian JSM
Kongsberg and Raytheon have carried out a long-range flight test of the Joint Strike Missile (JSM) from a Lockheed Martin F-16, as the developmental weapon continues its qualification campaign.
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Trump vows to slash F-35 costs after CEO meeting
Incoming US president Donald Trump called the Lockheed Martin F-35 “very expensive” and vowed to bring down the stealth fighter’s costs after a 21 December meeting with the chief executives of Lockheed Martin and Boeing.
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US approves P-8 sale to Norway
The US State Department has approved the possible sale of five Boeing P-8 Poseidon aircraft, paving the way for Norway’s P-3 and DA-20 replacement fleet.
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NewsBlueBird wins Israeli target UAV contract
BlueBird has won a contract to supply a target variant of an unmanned air vehicle to the Israeli air force (IAF), to enable it to train its air defence units.
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Boeing and Saab complete first T-X flight
Boeing and Saab’s bid for the US Air Force trainer competition took flight from St. Louis, Missouri, demonstrating the clean-sheet design jet’s performance for the first time.
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Loose bracket caused F-35B fire
A fire aboard a US Marine Corps F-35B was traced back to a loose bracket designed to hold together electrical wires in the aircraft’s weapons bay, F-35 programme executive officer Lt Gen Chris Bogdan says.
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Antonov rolls out An-132 demonstrator
Antonov rolled out the new An-132D multipurpose turboprop transport on 20 December in Kiev, Ukraine, as the Saudia Arabia-backed project prepares to enter the flight test phase.