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Hunter near to delivery
THE FIRST TRW/Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) Hunter joint tactical unmanned air vehicle (JT-UAV) is scheduled to be handed over to the US Army by the end of April. Flight-testing of the Hunter continues in the USA and Israel to avoid further delays in delivering the system. By the ...
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Born-again Blackbird
The supersonic Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird is no longer a museum piece: no more is it a relic of the Cold War, gathering dust. The renaissance of the US Air Force spy plane, which flies at altitudes above 85,000ft (26,000m), is a result of Congressional concern about the Pentagon's ability to ...
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Phoenix gets a reprieve
THE MUCH-DELAYED GEC-Marconi Phoenix reconnaissance and targeting unmanned air vehicle has been given a one-year stay of execution by the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD). The MoD was forced to review the GEC-led £227 million programme because it was six years late, with several technical problems still ...
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Israel offers cruise missile for export
ISRAEL IS developing a conventional cruise missile derivative of a long-range unmanned air vehicle (UAV) aimed at the requirement of an unspecified Asian customer. Sources close to the project claim that TAAS (formerly Israel Military Industries) has a funded programme under way to adapt its Delilah decoy UAV ...
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French forces ponder Israeli Hunter purchase
THE FRENCH ARMY is in negotiations with Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) to purchase its Hunter short-range reconnaissance unmanned air vehicle (UAV) for evaluation. The French army has an immediate requirement for five short-range systems. The system could be deployed in Bosnia in support of French operations in the ...
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Westinghouse JAST Deal
The US Navy has awarded Westinghouse a $5 million contract to perform a concept study and demonstration of weapons-guidance and weapons-integration precision-targeting capabilities for the Joint Advanced Strike Technology (JAST) programme. The research effort will focus on critical strike-warfare targeting and target identification requirements. The Swiss Government is ...
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GEC-Marconi attacked on Phoenix performance
THE INDUSTRIAL competence of the UK's second-biggest defence manufacturer has been called into question during an extraordinary Parliamentary Defence Committee hearing on the problems of the Phoenix unmanned air vehicle (UAV). Cancellation of the £227 million GEC-Marconi Avionics-developed reconnaissance and targeting UAV programme is being "very seriously ...
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Crash mars resumption of Hunter UAV tests
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC FLIGHT TESTING of the TRW/IAI Hunter short-range unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has been marred by yet another crash. Meanwhile, the UAV project, which has been beset by a series of technical setbacks, faces an independent US Department of Defense review, which could affect future ...
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Significant achievement
The first NH Industries NH90 takes shape. Julian Moxon/PARIS At first sight, it might be difficult to appreciate the significance of the all-composite fuselage shell sitting on makeshift landing gear at Eurocopter France's Marseilles factory. It is, however, the visible evidence of progress on what is potentially ...
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German air force ready to cover Bosnian withdrawal
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH THE GERMAN air force is ready to add its strength to an operation to cover the withdrawal of UN Protection Forces (UNPROFOR) from war-torn Bosnia-Herzegovina if necessary, according to the Federal Ministry of Defence. The defence ministry says that, while a final go-ahead ...
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Kaman Cuts Loss
Kaman, more than halved its losses in 1994, to the end the year, with a $13.2 million deficit. Sales also edged up to $820 million, helped by the group's diversification into non-defence industrial-technology markets. Founding chairman Charles Kaman welcomes the Pentagon's initiative in urging the US forces to use commercially ...
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Israel arrows in on defence defence
Israel's main defence against ballistic-missile attack, the Arrow, is at a critical stage. Arie Egozi/TEL AVIV In Hebrew, the Israeli missile-defence organisation is called HOMA - meaning wall. Although it is the incidental result of Hebrew abbreviations, it has a special connotation to its main purpose ...
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Alliant and Martin to compete
ALLIANT TECHSYSTEMS and Martin Marietta have been selected by the US Air Force to compete for development and production of the wind-corrected munitions dispenser (WCMD) kits. The USAF awarded Alliant $21 million and Martin Marietta $9.5 million to begin engineering and manufacturing development work. Under the ...
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Israel chases Dutch deal on UAVs
A HIGH-RANKING Israeli delegation has visited the Netherlands in an attempt to clinch a contra deal covering the supply of unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) to the Dutch army, in exchange for the purchase of military trucks. Israel Aircraft Industries is offering the Dutch army a variant of its ...
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Recovery damage guided Phoenix review
DAMAGE TO the GEC-Marconi Phoenix unmanned air vehicle (UAV) during recovery is behind a UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) decision to undertake a review into the future of the programme (Flight International, 25-31 January). GEC admits that, on recovery, the UAV occasionally sustains more damage than is acceptable ...
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MDHS to offer EH101 to US Navy
McDONNELL DOUGLAS plans to offer the EH Industries EH101 to meet a US Navy requirement for a fleet-support helicopter. Other likely competitors include Sikorsky, with a cargo version of the Navy's SH-60 Seahawk anti-submarine helicopter, and possibly Kaman, with a military derivative of the K-MAX external-lift helicopter. McDonnell ...
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Recovery damage guided Phoenix review
DAMAGE TO the GEC-Marconi Phoenix unmanned air vehicle (UAV) during recovery is behind an UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) decision to undertake a review into the future of the programme (Flight International, 25-31 January). GEC admits that, on recovery, the UAV occasionally sustains more damage than is acceptable ...
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MDHS to offer EH101 to US Navy
McDONNELL DOUGLAS plans to offer the EH Industries EH101 to meet a US Navy requirement for a fleet-support helicopter. Other likely competitors include Sikorsky, with a cargo version of the Navy's SH-60 Seahawk anti-submarine helicopter, and possibly Kaman, with a military derivative of the K-MAX external-lift helicopter. McDonnell ...
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UK ministers will make decision on Phoenix UAV
THE FUTURE of the troubled GEC-Marconi Phoenix unmanned-air-vehicle programme will be determined at ministerial level. Submission of a critical report into the six-year-late project is expected in the next few months. The Phoenix reconnaissance and targeting system is under review, with several options being considered, including procuring an ...