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Iranian Bombcats
Iran's Isfahan aerospace facility has modified Northrop Grumman F-14 Tomcats for the air-to-ground role, according to the official Islamic Republic News Agency. The air superiority fighter's additional capability was tested during a major exercise in the north west of the country, in which 100 aircraft of various types flew 300 ...
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Algeria seeks maritime patrol aircraft
Stewart Penney/LONDON Algeria has an emerging requirement for up to 12 maritime surveillance aircraft. Political considerations mean the North African country could request bids only from European countries. The requirement could be met by a medium twin-turboprop, with ATR, British Aerospace and Casa among the likely bidders. Algeria - ...
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F-2 wing cracks delay development completion
Andrzej Jeziorski/SINGAPORE The Japan Defence Agency (JDA) has stretched development work on the Mitsubishi F-2 until the end of next March because of continued problems with wing cracking on the support fighter. The JDA says the development schedule has been reviewed, following the latest discovery of cracks by its ...
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South Africa ditches Hawk 100 multimode radar
South Africa has scrapped a requirement to fit its planned 24 British Aerospace Hawk 100 lead-in fighter trainers (foreground) with a multimode radar, in the face of prohibitively high integration costs and budget constraints. The South African Air Force has told competing radar suppliers Elta and FIAR that it is ...
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Norway threatens Nordic helicopter pact
Stewart Penney/LONDONA competition to supply Norway with air-defence warships could adversely affect the country's participation in the four-nation Nordic Standard Helicopter Programme (NSHP). Norway, with Denmark, Finland and Sweden, recently signed a memorandum of understanding covering the joint purchase of up to 90 helicopters. While Denmark, Finland and Sweden are, ...
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More delays expected on ISS
Tim Furniss/LONDON NASA is expected to announce further delays to the International Space Station (ISS) assembly schedule. The STS101 Atlantis mission to the ISS, which was due in December, is likely to be delayed until next year, and the major Shuttle assembly mission 3A is expected to be pushed ...
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Kamov is key to merger moves
Russian rotorcraft specialist Kamov is to form the basis of an integrated helicopter company, with its design bureau combined with production plants at Kumertau and Arsenyev, in accordance with a government directive. The move is likely to mean the demise of Kamov's alliance with VPK MAPO. The Kumertau factory produces ...
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Tree planting role planned for C-130
Paul Lewis/WASHINGTON DC Lockheed Martin Aeronautical Systems hopes to demonstrate a new environmentally friendly application for the C-130 military transport as a potential airborne reforestation platform. The US aerospace firm, with Boston-based Aerial Forestation (AFI), is researching development of a C-130 to drop large numbers of tree seedlings. ...
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Boeing jumps ahead in JSF demonstrator race
Boeing has completed structural assembly of the first X-32 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) concept demonstrator aircraft (CDA), stealing a lead on the competing Lockheed Martin X-35. Boeing now hopes to accelerate the start of flight testing. Pratt & Whitney has been asked to bring forward delivery of the first F119-614 ...
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Pentagon to draw up export rules for AEW&C technology
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC The US Department of Defense (DoD) has launched a review of airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) technology with the aim of establishing export guidelines. The move follows Flight International's report that the DoD is reviewing whether the information provided by Boeing to Australia as ...
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Taiwan may seek F-16 compensation
The Taiwanese air force says it could seek compensation for a series of crashes that has repeatedly grounded its fleet of Lockheed Martin F-16A/Bs. Air force deputy inspector-general Lee Guey-Fa says all of the wreckage from the most recent crash has been recovered. "If we can prove the cause ...
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Shaped to compete
Consolidation has shaped the US military aircraft industry for the challenges of the next decade Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DCReshaped by the consolidation of recent years, US military aircraft manufacturers are undergoing another transition as programmes that have sustained the industry for decades reach the end of their lives. With fewer new ...
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Network bid
Four companies have been chosen to bid to provide network services for the US Air Force's Distributed Mission Training (DMT) programme. CACI, Computer Sciences, Science Applications International and TRW have each won $1.1 million contracts to refine proposals for the 15-year, $500 million DMT operations and integration contract to link ...
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Yakovlev is close to Yak/AEM-130 funding
Yakovlev is close to securing finance from the Russian Government for the manufacture of four prototypes of the Yak/ AEM-130 advanced trainer/light fighter. The aircraft is being developed with Aermacchi of Italy. Nickolay Dolzhenkov, Yakovlev technical director and programme manager for the Yak/AEM-130, says an agreement between the Italian ...
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US-Israeli systems link
Cubic Defense Systems has demonstrated interoperability of US and Israeli rangeless air combat training systems for the first time during a joint US Air Force and Republic of Singapore Air Force exercise. The trial involved Singapore's Israeli-supplied pods and displays and the USAF's Cubic-developed Kadena Instrumented Training System. Source: Flight ...
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Reserve training
US Air Force Reserve aircrew have begun training on a Raytheon-built Lockheed Martin C-130H3 simulator at Dobbins AFB in Georgia. The simulator integrates a partial glass cockpit with flight test data, aerodynamic models and aircraft system models. The Level D-standard machine joins a similar Raytheon-built C-130H2 simulator delivered last November ...
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US carriers sign DoD MoU
The US Department of Defense (DoD) has moved to ensure that foreign airlines that codeshare with US carriers have equal standards of safety. Six major US carriers signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the DoD on 6 August agreeing that their codeshare partners will undergo an initial safety ...
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Skunk Works: responding to changing times
Things are no longer black and white for the Skunk Works. The still-secretive Lockheed Martin unit is having to adjust to the reality that much of its future business opportunities are in the commercial, and not the classified, arena. Not that the two worlds are so vastly different - both ...
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In the works
Tailless fighters, reusable space vehicles, blended wing body transports and hypersonic strike missiles are just some of the technologies on the drawing board at Boeing's Phantom Works Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Boeing's Phantom Works appears increasingly aptly named as it becomes a "virtual" organisation linking the aerospace giant's advanced development centres. ...