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Canada approves SAR purchase
The Canadian Government has approved a C$600 million ($446 million) programme to acquire or lease 15 new search-and-rescue (SAR) helicopters to replace its fleet of 13 CH-113 Labrador Helicopters. Defence minister David Collenette says that a separate decision on the purchase of up to 32 naval helicopters is ...
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Positive action
THE FRENCH AEROSPACE industry may see little cause to thank defence minister Charles Millon for proposals to make swingeing cuts in the country's military spending. Yet if the budget cuts at last succeed in provoking the industry into a long-overdue bout of restructuring, then Millon will have ...
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Budget cuts strike at French defence industry
Julian Moxon/PARIS THE FRENCH Government has admitted that the country's defence industry is facing a "critical situation" because of unavoidable budget cuts needed to reduce the national deficit. Defence minister Charles Millon revealed during a debate on the defence budget on 8 November that he ...
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AlliedSignal
John Hamilton has become vice-president and general manager of environmental-control systems at AlliedSignal Aerospace, of Torrance, California. He was previously director of repair and overhaul at South Bend, Indiana. Tig Krekel becomes vice-president and general manager for military customer support in marketing sales and service, having been vice-president of military ...
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Lockheed simulation
Lockheed Martin has won a five-year $146 million contract to support US Air Force special-operations training at Kirtland AFB, New Mexico. The company has also won a US Army contract, potentially worth $500 million over five years, to develop distributed simulation technology. Under the USAF Mission Training Support ...
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CL-415 launched on 180-day world tour
BOMBARDIER HAS launched a 180-day, 21-country sales tour with the Canadair CL-415 amphibian. The Quebec Government-owned aircraft was despatched on 23 October from the Rome Ciampino Airport base of Alitalia subsidiary SISAM, which operates four CL-415 waterbombers, and which will assist with operations and maintenance during the tour. ...
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Better control for aircraft instability unstable aircraft
Andrew Doyle/LONDON ADVANCED, INHERENTLY unstable delta-canard combat aircraft could be easier to control and have a longer structural fatigue life than conventional designs through the use of active-structural-mode-control (AcSMC) technology, according to a study carried out by Lancaster University in the UK. The British Aerospace Military ...
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Virtual combat
Sophisticated simulation technology is being used to train US Air Force crews for covert operations. Graham Warwick/ATLANTA ALBUQUERQUE, NEW Mexico - this year's venue for the annual convocation of the simulation industry - is home to probably the world's most advanced flight-simulation centre. The 58th Special Operations Wing ...
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Invisible HALO
Douglas Barrie/LONDON LIKE MOST OF its equivalents, the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) likes to flatly deny the existence of sensitive programmes - rather appositely in the case of stealth projects Nevertheless, the inadvertent disclosure of its High Agility Low Observability (HALO) programme during an unclassified ...
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Sri Lanka close to Kfir purchase
SRI LANKA and Israel are finalising the $50 million purchase of eight former Israeli air force Kfir C2 fighter aircraft. The sale of the Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI)-built fighter has been approved by the US administration - clearance was required because the aircraft are fitted with the General ...
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Military simulator directory
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS has provided a lifeline to military-simulator manufacturers over the past 12 months as individual domestic opportunities have failed to materialise as expected. Delays in programme starts and contract awards have continued to plague the industry, making planning and forecasting difficult. Industry consolidation ...
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Lithuania seeks L-39 financing
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH THE LITHUANIAN air force is pushing for funding to buy eight new L-39 Albatros jet trainers from Czech manufacturer Aero Vodochody. According to Aero Vodochody president and chief executive Zdenek Chalupnik, the company is now making efforts to find a financing package to allow ...
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Germany gives go-ahead to research helicopter
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH THE GERMAN Government has confirmed that it will fund a new Eurocopter EC 135-based helicopter technology demonstrator, to fly by the end of 1998. The aircraft, called Helicopter Simulator for Technology, Operations and Research (HeSTOR), will replace the Eurocopter BO 105-based Advanced Technology Testing ...
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US firm tries to resurrect Turkish F-5 project
Guy Norris/SAN ANTONIO HOPES OF REVIVING the long-delayed Turkish Northrop Grumman F-5 upgrade programme have been renewed with the involvement of a US-based investment company bidding to fund and manage the stalled modernisation effort. Washington DC-based Triton Systems is soliciting immediate bids from all the major ...
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Serb jet breaches NATO defences
A SERBIAN LEARJET succeeded in crossing NATO airspace from Belgrade to Belgium without clearance and landed at London Heathrow after two Belgian air force Lockheed F-16A Fighting Falcons scrambled by NATO air defence failed to intercept the aircraft. The incident happened on 28 October. The two F-16s were ...
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Talon claws Korean deal from Hawk
SOUTH KOREA is on the brink of leasing Northrop Grumman T-38 Talon trainers rather than purchasing new-build British Aerospace Hawks, and will use the savings to launch the KTX-II light fighter/trainer-aircraft programme. The South Korean air force is understood to be negotiating an agreement, worth $100 million, to ...
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Sudan considers Hind
An evaluation of the Mil Mi-24 Hind attack helicopter is now taking place in Sudan. In late October, a single aircraft was delivered from surplus stocks held by the Republic of Kyrgyztan. The helicopter was ferried to the Sudan together with a team of flight and technical instructors. ...
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Israel rejects Beechcraft
THE ISRAELI air force has ruled out the Beechcraft MK-2 from its trainer procurement, despite its winning the US Joint Primary Aircraft Training System (JPATS) competition. The British Aerospace Hawk is now its preferred solution. A senior Israeli air force source says that the MK-2 turboprop trainer "...is ...
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Eurofighter delay forces RAF to rethink upgrades
Douglas Barrie/LONDON THE FIRST Eurofighter 2000 will not enter front-line squadron service with the Royal Air Force until 2005-6, with the aircraft's introduction in the ground-attack role being delayed considerably beyond this date. Whitehall and industry sources confirm that the RAF's planning date for fielding an ...
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Aermacchi to lead trainer joint venture
Andrea Spinelli/GENOA THE LONG-RUNNING battle to create a single Italian trainer-manufacturer is close to being resolved, with Aermacchi and Finmeccanica involved in negotiations over setting up a new merged company. The rivalry between Aermacchi and Siai Marchetti, which is now within the Finmeccanica group, has long ...