The US Navy has signed a contract to buy 32 low-time Northrop F-5Es from Switzerland for $18.6 million, as one- for-one replacements for US Navy Reserve F-5E adversary aircraft.
The Royal Thai Air Force has selected Northrop Grumman's LTN-92 navigation system for retrofit to Lockheed Martin C-130 Hercules.
Smiths Aerospace has won a $2 million contract from Thales Avionics to supply the situation monitoring analysis and reporting tablet to equip some UK Royal Air Force Boeing Chinook helicopters.
Raytheon has received a US Air Force contract, potentially worth up to $2 billion, for Paveway II kits for GBU-10, -12 and -16 laser-guided bombs.
The UK Ministry of Defence has signed a series of engine support deals with Rolls-Royce and Turbomeca. R-R has won a £60 million ($97 million), five-year contract to support the Gnome turboshaft powering Royal Air Force and Royal Navy Westland Sea King helicopters. Turbomeca has signed a similar deal covering the Astazou turboprop in RAF and RN BAe Jetstream T1 multi-engine and T2 observer trainers. R-R says it has signed two support contracts worth more than $150 million with undisclosed military customers.
Textron Systems is to produce 350 CBU-105B/B cluster bomb units and 300 sensor-fuzed weapon retrofits under a $117 million USAir Force contract.
Cessna is to deliver an additional UC-35D (Citation Encore) to the US Army under a $7.4 million contract.
Boeing is to integrate an anti-spoofing GPS receiver and low-cost anti-jam antenna into the JDAM GPS-guided bomb under a $33.7 million USAir Force contract.
Innovative Scientific Solutions is to study components for high-speed air breathing engines under a US Air Force Research Laboratory contract.
BAE Systems has won a £441 million UK Ministry of Defence contract for Sting Ray Mod 1 lightweight torpedoes to equip surface ships, AgustaWestland Merlin helicopters and BAE Nimrod maritime patrol aircraft. Deliveries will begin in 2006.
Source: Flight International
