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US military is open to overseas hopefuls
The perception that the American military is closed to foreign suppliers is wrong, says United States Col Randall Catts - and he's got a $30million-plus annual budget to prove his point. Catts is at the show - in the American Pavilion - to meet non-US equipment suppliers who ...
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Eurocopter notches up new sales
Norway-based operator Helicopter Services Group has ordered six Eurocopter AAS 365-N4 helicopters, the latest version of the Dauphin 2 family, with an option on another six machines. The first two are due for delivery in November and December 1998, followed by the others at regular intervals. ...
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F-16 'still good for another 20 years'
Contrary to suggestions from its competitors, the Lockheed Martin F-16 will be around at the Paris air show for many years to come, says a senior programme official. Responding to attacks by the SAAB/BAe Gripen team on Monday, F-16 programme vice-president Bob Elrod says the F-16 is to ...
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Flight does it in style
Whether it's haute couture or street chic, France has spent centuries as setting the style for the rest of the world. The UK and the US are hot on its high heels, say those in the know, but the big French names are still more familiar. ...
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Honeywell takes F-2 work to Japan
Honeywell Defense Avionics Systems has signed an $8million contract with Yokogawa Electric Corporation for the first year of production of its programmable display generator (PDG) for Japan's F-2 fighter, it was announced at the show. Shipset deliveries are expected to continue over the next 10 years, beginning with ...
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GE defuses Gripen engine rumours
Speculation in the Hungarian and British press that Gripen engine supplier GE favours the Swedish fighter's two competitors in a Hungarian air force competition are untrue. So says George Bolln, GE Aircraft Engines general manager, F404/F414 project. The F-16 and F-18 are also in the running ...
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N250 is a source of national pride, says Indonesian minister
Dr BJ Habibie took a quick stroll down memory lane during his press briefing yesterday. Indonesia's effervescent Minister for Research and Technology reflects on his first Paris air show 42 years ago when, as a poor student, lunch meant an apple with bread, and accommodation was strictly budget. ...
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Northrop Grumman picks up JSTARS contracts
Northrop Grumman has picked up two contracts for the Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS) worth a potential $132million. The JSTARS programme, which will run for 30 months, comprises a base $47million contract and a $58million increase for additional improvements. Under the base contract, Northrop Grumman will ...
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Korry turns the spotlight on switches
Throwing a bit of light on the matter - that is where Korry Electronics' expertise lies, as visitors to Hall 3/F3 will see. The firm manufactures illuminated push-button switches, indicators, integrated switch panels, and hard-wearing keyboards to name a few of its products. Korry's products can ...
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Question hangs over BAe's slice of the JSF cake
British Aerospace will get a larger share of the work in the US Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) project if it joins a team sooner rather than later. "The main challenge for BAe is selecting the team which will win," says David Wheaton, Lockheed Martin's JSF programme manager. "BAe ...
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Super Lynx flies on with orders, upgrades
The world's foremost small ships helicopter - GKN Westland's Super Lynx - continues to do well, with several new orders, potential orders and major upgrade programmes announced at Le Bourget. Having recently delivered the last of nine new Super Lynx aircraft to the Brazilian navy, GKN Westland Helicopters ...
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New concept in moving targets from Meggitt
Meggitt Target Systems, part of Meggitt plc, has announced a double development at the show. Yesterday it launched what it describes as a new concept in air-to-air and surface-to-air weapon training, the GT-400, and the next-generation aerial target, the Banshee 400. The new GT-400 should fill ...
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US to test UK's Broach warhead
Saddam Hussein, Colonel Gadaffi and other leaders around the world may be interested - or worried - to hear that the Pentagon has decided to test Britain's deep penetrating Broach missile warhead. The Broach is a high-technology warhead designed to blast through the layers of concrete of buried ...
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Canada to host new NATO fighter training programme in 1999
The skies over Saskatchewan and Alberta, Canada, will be the training zone for trainee fighter pilots from the UK, Norway and Denmark when the first intake of Nato Flying Training in Canada (NFTC) students get airborne in 1999. Following nearly two years of talk since NFTC announced its ...
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Thomson-CSF scores radar breakthrough in Japan
France's Thomson-CSF defence electronics manufacturer has made a breakthrough in Japan with the sale of three Ocean Master radars. The contract is for the Japanese Maritime Self Defence Force's Shinmaya US1A search-and-rescue amphibious aircraft upgrade programme, and coincides with the delivery of Japan's first Ocean Master radar, ordered ...
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US-French teaming for Hawkeye assemblies
Major US aviation group Northrop Grumman has selected French company Potez Aeronautique, from Aire-sur-l'Adour, to produce entire empennages for the E-2C Hawkeye airborne early warning command and control aircraft ordered by the French navy. Part of the US company's industrial benefits programme, the agreement is expected to bring ...
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Saab confident of continuing turboprop market
Saab remains confident that there will still be a strong market for turboprops well into the next century, despite the increasing number of orders for regional jets. Saab Aircraft president Gert Schyborger says the impact of the 50-seat regional jets has been to expand the market and create ...
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Sea Kings get new flight control system
Five GKN Westland Sea King helicopters of the Belgian air force are to be fitted with the new Smith's Newmark SN500 automatic flight control system over the next three years. The SN500 enhances the Sea King's operational capability and flight safety, while improving reliability and costs. ...
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Lockheed on target for satellite record
A record 70 satellites built by Lockheed Martin Missiles and Space will be launched this year, more than any other company in history, says Mike Henshaw, the division's president. Seven of the satellites are due for launch on a Russian Proton booster from Baikonur today. These are Iridium ...
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MoD orders more Starstreaks
Britain's defence ministry has ordered a further 1,000 Starstreak close air defence missiles from Shorts Missile Systems (SMS), bringing the total bought so far to 7,000. Roy McNulty, chairman of SMS, the joint venture between Britain's Short Brothers and France's Thomson-CSF, welcomed the news at Le Bourget yesterday: ...