Basler Turbo Conversions has received a $7 million contract to supply Colombia with an additional AC-47T counter-insurgency aircraft by mid-2006. The modified Douglas DC-3 Dakota will join about seven AC-47s already in Colombian air force service.
Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control has won a $65 million contract to add a global positioning/inertial navigation system to 5,100 of the US Navy’s Paveway II laser-guided bombs (LGB) by April 2007. Future options under the dual-mode LGB programme could total a further $200 million.
US Special Operations Command Boeing MH-47 Chinook transport helicopters are to receive ITT Industries’ suite of integrated radio frequency countermeasures equipment by late 2008 under a $41.8 million upgrade.
CAE is to upgrade the Royal Australian Air Force’s two Lockheed Martin C-130H/J full flight simulators under an A$12 million ($8.8 million) deal. The trainers will be upgraded with CAE’s Medallion-S image generation system and a networked off-board instructor station. The company has also received a one-year contract to maintain and support 12 simulators installed at the German army’s helicopter training school at Bueckeburg.
The US Air Force has awarded Pratt & Whitney a $17.3 million contract to support the Lockheed Martin/Boeing F/A-22 Raptor’s F119 engines during flight tests at Edwards AFB, California, until December 2006.
The UK Ministry of Defence has awarded BAE Systems a $2 million contract to deliver a continuous-wave doppler radar system for installation at Qinetiq’s Aberporth test and evaluation range in Wales next year. L-3 Vertex Aerospace is to modify the electronic flight instruments of the US Air Force’s C-12J (Beech 1900) transports under a $7.3 million deal.
EADS Defence Electronics is to produce 364 digital map generators for the Eurofighter Typhoon and Germany’s Panavia Tornados for €50 million ($59 million).
Source: Flight International
