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Mergers
Boeing is planning to sell its Information Services subsidiary, a provider of information and systems integration services to the US Government. The Seattle giant says it expects to announce a buyer for the Virginia-based business later this quarter. Sweden's Saab group is to acquire Nyge Aero, a military and commercial ...
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EJ200 engine proposed for AMX
Guy Norris/MUNICH AMX International is studying the re-engining of the AMX combat aircraft with a non-afterburning version of the Eurojet EJ200. A decision is expected as early as June and, if sanctioned, could lead to the development of a flight demonstration aircraft in 2000. AMX International, an Italian-Brazilian joint ...
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Lockheed Martin favours German cannon for JSF
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC Lockheed Martin, which is competing against Boeing for the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), has baselined Germany's Mauser 27mm cannon for its bid, but is also considering the General Dynamics GAU-12 25mm three-barrel Gatling gun, with either weapon to be mounted in the aircraft's weapons bay. ...
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First Zulu Huey assembly begins
Paul Lewis/WASHINGTON DC The US Marine Corps' Bell AH-1Z/UH-1Y helicopter upgrade programme is picking up momentum with assembly of the first prototype airframe beginning this month. Twelve months of drive system bench testing will follow, starting in May. To date, 85% of drawings have been released and design ...
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US Navy is considering upgrade options for 'Future Hawkeye'
Paul Lewis/WASHINGTON DC The US Navy is evaluating a range of sensor and avionic enhancements to further extend the Northrop Grumman E-2C Hawkeye's operational life, as plans for a replacement Common Support Aircraft (CSA) remain stalled. "Future Hawkeye" is a follow-on package of proposed improvements to the latest Hawkeye ...
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France copes with greatest air traffic levels as delays creep up
Average flight delays in France increased by a minute, to 16.1min, last year, as the country experienced the biggest jump in air traffic for 10 years, according to its civil aviation authority, the DGAC. Compared with 9.4% a year earlier, 10.1% of flights were delayed during the year by more ...
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Malaysia pact
Russia and Malaysia have signed a bilateral defence co-operation agreement, which includes training and manufacture of unspecified Russian-designed military equipment. The agreement, signed in Kuala Lumpur on 6 April by Malaysian and Russian defence ministers, follows a similar agreement, signed when Malaysia purchased 18 MiG-29 fighters in 1994. Source: Flight ...
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Singapore T-700
Singapore has selected the General Electric T-700-701C turboshaft, over the Rolls Royce RTM 322, to power its planned eight Boeing AH-64D Apache helicopters. The weapons package ordered includes three Lockheed Martin Longbow millimetre wave radars. Singapore has to decide shortly between basing the machines for training at its existing Grand ...
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Kosovo air campaign intensifies
Howard Gethin/RAF MILDENHALL NATO has sharply stepped up its air campaign against Yugoslavia, with over 80 separate targets attacked in the four days from 3 April, of 190 made since the outbreak of hostilities. NATO aircraft flew 438 sorties against 28 targets on 5 April alone. "We've increased the ...
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Looking forward
Chile's economic downturn has not derailed plans to grow the country's aerospace industry Alfonso Tobar/SANTIAGO Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DCSantiago's bi-annual FIDAE airshow is as much a showcase for Chile's aviation industry as it is a marketplace for the world's manufacturers. A year ago, the centrepiece of FIDAE '98 was a display ...
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Apache market
Boeing is forecasting an international market for at least 600 AH-64D Apache Longbows, plus 518 more for the US Army, over the next 15 years. The company delivered the 1,000th AH-64 on 30 March. The former McDonnell Douglas plant at Mesa, Arizona, produced 937 AH-64As and is under contract to ...
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Sanders JSF EW
Lockheed Martin has selected a team led by its subsidiary Sanders to supply the electronic warfare system for its proposed JointStrike Fighter. As system integrator, Sanders will design affordable low-observable apertures and advanced infrared and radio-frequency countermeasures, while teammate Litton Amecom will supply low-cost electronic support measures. Source: Flight ...
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Maintenance drive
Max Kingsley-Jones/ABU DHABI GAMCO is offering customers more capacity and more choices as it strives to be a major maintenance force Gulf Aircraft Maintenance (GAMCO) is driving ahead to become a major force in the world aircraft maintenance market as it begins to expand capacity and offer more ...
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Yugoslav conflict forces airspace rethink
The conflict in Yugoslavia has forced Eurocontrol to conduct a major re-organisation of airspace in the region, with large areas of Balkan airspace closed to civil air traffic. On 24 March, Eurocontrol's Central Flow Management Unit (CFMU), which monitors traffic flows and airspace use in Europe, closed the airspace ...
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Conflict of cost
With air superiority at the heart of NATO's current - and future - military doctrine, the cost debate over the alliance's next generation strike fighter has become critical to say the least. The issue becomes all the more poignant as the world watches some of the most advanced air ...
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US forces to push forward AIM-9XL flight tests
The US Navy and US Air Force are planning an aggressive 34-month flight-test programme for the Raytheon AIM-9X Evolved Sidewinder air-to-air missile following its first firing. Funding is being sought at the same time for initial low rate production of 150 missiles. About 16 separation firings and more than ...
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Proposals requested for F/A-18E/F active array
Boeing has issued a draft request for proposals for an active-array radar for the F/A-18E/FSuper Hornet. It is awaiting the US Navy's go-ahead to launch a competition between Raytheon and Northrop Grumman to develop the active electronically scanned array (AESA). A winner is expected to be named in the fourth ...
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DGA reforms yield results for French defence projects
France's weapons procurement agency, the DGA, has completed two years of intense reforms and bought the major overbudget defence programmes back on track, according to the organisation's chief, Jean-Yves Helmer. The DGA handles around 70% of France's total defence budget, and has been forced into tough decisions in response ...
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Global Hawk is destroyed in China Lake crash
A Teledyne Ryan Global Hawk unmanned air vehicle (UAV) was destroyed in a crash during a test flight at the NAS China Lake test centre on 29 March, just 20min after taking off from Edwards AFB in California. "We don't know what caused the crash, or any of the ...
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Boeing JSF improvements will meet payload shortfall 'four times over'
The Boeing Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) programme team claims to have identified a range of installed thrust improvement and weight reduction options for the US Marine Corps and Royal Navy version of the X-32 demonstrator. The team says the improvements more than address the projected payload performance shortfall in the ...