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Northrop Grumman wins USN UAV contest
Northrop Grumman's Ryan Aeronautical Center has been picked to supply the US Navy's next tactical vertical take-off and landing unmanned air vehicle. The system will replace AAI/Israel Aircraft Industry Pioneer fixed-wing UAVs. The Programme Executive Office, Cruise Missiles and UAVs, has awarded Northrop Grumman a $94 million engineering and manufacturing ...
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AEW on the attack
After solving a sensitive technology transfer issue to clinch Australia's Wedgetail programme, Boeing/Northrop Grumman has Asia in sight Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC On Northrop Grumman's map of prospective customers for airborne warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft, only one country is marked as conquered - Australia. Next to fall, the company ...
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Defence renaissance
The world's defence manufacturers are again identifying the Asia-Pacific as a major market Stewart Penney/LONDONBy common consensus, the worst effects of the Asian economic crisis have passed and the nations around the Pacific are again considering their defence needs. At the 1998 Asian Aerospace show, the economic crisis generated pessimistic ...
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Reality bites
Opportunities are looming large, but Asia's aerospace industry is in poor shape Chris Jasper/LONDONAsia's battered aerospace sector is finally getting to grips with the new realities thrust upon it by the region's patchwork economic collapse of a few years ago - although it has taken its time. Before currencies nose-dived ...
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Sikorsky picks new avionics suite
Sikorsky has selected Rockwell Collins Pro Line 21 equipment as the baseline avionics suite for its new S-92 medium helicopter. Sikorsky selected the avionics after dropping plans to develop a Honeywell-based cockpit. Late last month Canada's Cougar Helicopters signed a letter of intent to be the first launch customer for ...
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US majors feel the squeeze, but profit from the sale of assets
Chris Jasper/LONDON On first sight, recently published financial figures for the USA's major airlines appear to point to a successful year in 1999. Most of the top 10 reported healthy net profits and exhibited increases in passengers boarded and group turnover. All this indicates that the air transport market they ...
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Ministers propose single sky for Europe
Julian Moxon/BRUSSELS A "single European sky" is on the political agenda after a 28 January meeting of transport ministers from the 38 European Civil Aviation Conference (ECAC) states. The ministers called for a high-level working group to study how to reduce air traffic delays in Europe. The International Air Transport ...
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Australia looks at private funding for F/A-18 simulators
The Australian Defence Acquisition Organisation (DAO) is exploring the use of private finance to overcome budget problems facing the replacement of the Royal Australian Air Force's (RAAF) Boeing F/A-18 Hornet flight simulators. A competitive tender for the replacement, involving two new-generation dome simulators and associated infrastructure, is to be ...
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FY2001 US defence budget preview
The US Department of Defense's (DoD) Fiscal Year 2001 budget request was delivered to US lawmakers on 7 February. It includes significant funding for the proposed National Missile Defense (NMD) system, while sustaining production of the Northrop Grumman E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS). Other priorities ...
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Lockheed Martin ready for C-5 engine RFI
Paul Lewis/WASHINGTON DC Lockheed Martin expects by mid-February to issue competing powerplant manufacturers with a request for proposals (RFP) for over 500 new engines for the US Air Force's C-5A/B Galaxy heavylift transports, following final approval of an acquisition strategy for the planned Reliability Enhancement and Re-engining Programme (RERP). ...
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Denmark advances in hunt for Hercules replacement
Stewart Penney/LONDON Denmark has moved closer to replacing its four Lockheed Martin C-130H Hercules. It is evaluating bids from Airtruck with the An-7X - a Westernised Antonov An-70 - and from Lockheed Martin, offering its C-130J. Airtruck and Lockheed Martin responded to a request for quotations at the ...
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Italian air force may have to take MB339s
The Italian air force is close to submitting to pressure from the industry ministry and manufacturer Aermacchi to agree to the acquisition of a second batch of MB339CD advanced trainers. An estimated 90 first-generation MB339As are operated by the air force alongside 14 MB339CDs, used as lead-in fighter trainers. ...
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US Navy struggles with helicopter decision
The US Navy is re-evaluating plans to slim down its helicopter inventory to just two types as the result of concerns that the fleet will lose its heavylift vertical onboard delivery (VOD) capability with the eventual retirement of the Sikorsky MH-53E Sea Dragon. Under the US Navy's helicopter master ...
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Soyuz RD-1700 engines for MiG-AT expected this year
MAPO plans to install Soyuz RD-1700 engines in the MiG-AT advanced trainer by early next year. The two MiG-ATs involved in the flight test programme are powered by French-built Snecma/Turboméca Larzac 04R20 turbofans. The MiG-AT is competing with the Yak/Aermacchi Yak-130 to replace around a thousand Russian air force ...
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EADS woos Alenia with fighter plan
Andy Nativi/GENOA Andrew Doyle/MUNICH European Aeronautic, Defense and Space (EADS) is proposing the creation of a new European military aircraft company (EMAC). The strategy is part of a bid to outflank BAE Systems to land a merger deal with Alenia Aerospazio, the largest European aerospace concern not yet committed to ...
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Hyundai move sets back BAE's Korean Aerospace ambitions
Andrzej Jeziorski/SINGAPORE A BAE Systems plan to take a stake in Korean Aerospace Industries (KAI) by acquiring one of the companies involved in the merger appears to have been thwarted. South Korean car manufacturer Hyundai Motor is poised to acquire Hyundai Space & Aircraft's one-third stake in the newly created ...
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Roman legion
If Rome's rule once galvanised the European continent and gave it a sense of purpose, culture and identity, the Italian capital's role in determining the futures of Europe's two emerging aerospace and defence empires is also likely to be a central one. For Rome is being courted by Europe's two ...
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Eurocopter delays EC145 sales effort
Eurocopter has put back commercial sales of its EC145 medium-twin utility helicopter for around 12 months, until the production backlog, totalling 40 machines for the French security forces, has been cleared. Advertising and promotion of the Turboméca Arriel 2E1-powered machine has also been delayed temporarily. Eurocopter president Siegfried Sobotta ...
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Helipro unveils hot-and-high Huey development
Helipro Completions has unveiled a new low-cost Bell UH-1H helicopter upgrade aimed at civil and military operators looking for enhanced hot-and-high performance. The Huey 703 has been developed as a joint venture between Airwork of New Zealand, which owns 50% of Helipro, and Global Helicopter Technology. It uses the ...
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US distributor first to order Socata TB GT
Julian Moxon/TARBES Socata has launched its TB Generation Two (TB GT) range of light aircraft with a major US order for 79 aircraft. The deal, signed with recently appointed West Coast distributor New Avex, includes up to 10 TBM700 single-engined turboprops. The Aerospatiale Matra general aviation subsidiary has also ...