Eurocopter is offering Telephonics maritime surveillance- and-search radars as standard on its aircraft. The four-year deal covers the APS-143B(V)3 imaging radar and RDR-1400/1500/ 1600/1700 surveillance radars. Lockheed Martin has received US Air Force contracts totalling $2.68 billion for the second low-rate initial production batch of 13 F-22s, and other work on the stealthy air-superiority fighter. Raytheon is to produce 100AIM-120C5 air-to-air missiles for Greece under a $41.6 million contract. A second $34.3 million deal covers 206 AGM-65GMaverick air-to-surface missiles plus training rounds for South Korea, Spain and the United Arab Emirates. Environmental Tectonics (ETC) has sold a GAT-II low-cost simulator to the Tunisian ministry of defence's aeromedical school for flight and spatial disorientation training. The device will support training for a single-turboprop aircraft and generic light-utility helicopter. ETC has won a $2 million contract from an unidentified South American air force to upgrade an aeromedical centre with equipment including a Gyro-IPT physiological trainer. France's defence procurement agency, the DGA, has awarded Alcatel Space and Thales Communications contracts worth €170 million ($146million) to develop and produce the SHF-band Modem XXI high-speed modem for the Syracuse III military satellite communication system and for research into EHF-band links for secure tactical terminals. Vosper Thorny- croft's VTAerospace and the UK Ministry of Defence's Equipment Support (Air) arm have signed a £12 million ($17 million) a year contract to provide maintenance and logistics support for the Royal Air Force's Shorts Tucano basic trainer fleet. The contract will run until the Tucano is retired. Poland will pay a token €1 for the 23 RSK MiG-29s it will receive from Germany in a $28.8 million deal for 128 Leopard II battle tanks (Flight International, 5-11 February). Polish deputy defence minister Janusz Zemke says the first 13 aircraft arrive this year.
Source: Flight International
