Yemen has ordered more RSK MiG-29 Fulcrum fighters and has also expressed an interest in acquiring Kamov-built helicopters, with the Ka-29,Ka-32 and Ka-60 utility machines and Ka-50 attack helicopters reportedly candidates. Switzerland has ordered 24 Lockheed Martin portable search and target acquisition radars for use with Stinger short-range air-defence missiles. The trailer-deployed, mast-mounted, extended-range radars will be delivered next year. The US Air Force has exercised options for 46 additional Adacel MaxSim tower simulators, worth $23.7 million, under the contract won last year to supply up to 94 systems worth $72.5 million. BAE Systems/Rockwell Collins company Data Link Solutions is to supply 40 Link 16 fighter datalink terminals for South Korean Boeing F-15Ks under a $14 million contract. Environmental Tectonics has sold a Gyro-IPT-II spatial disorientation trainer to the Royal Australian Air Force's aeromedical centre and a GAT-II general aviation trainer to the Chilean air force's flight training school. Northrop Grumman is to supply 34 replacement centre-fuselage barrels for Canadian Forces Boeing CF-18s under a $17.5 million contract. Raytheon has received a $10.3 million US Army contract to produce the fifth suite of reconfigurable simulators under the Aviation Combined Arms Tactical Trainer programme. Quantum3D is to provide AAlchemy image generators for Maverick missile training at Lockheed Martin's F-16 mission training centres operational at two USAir Force bases. Rockwell Collins' Kaiser Electroprecision business is to develop and produce new horizontal stabiliser trim actuators for 60 Boeing C-17s, with options for 40 additional shipsets. Innovative Solutions & Support is to supply replacement central air-data computers for 370 US Air Force Fairchild A-10s, to increase reliability. Boeing has selected Honeywell as exterior visible and covert lighting systems integrator for the 767 tanker/transport.
Source: Flight International
