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Bomber roadshow
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC The USAF is pushing its bombers to the forefront of the expeditionary air force concept. But how long can they last? Deployment side by side of Northrop Grumman B-2s and Boeing B-52s is set to become commonplace as the US Air Force seeks to ...
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Northrop offers partnership in pitch for Wedgetail
Northrop Grumman plans to create an Australian subsidiary, which will be known as Hawkeye Mission Systems Australia. The new company would form part of its joint bid with Lockheed Martin for the Royal Australian Air Force's Project Wedgetail airborne early warning and control requirement. The new subsidiary would ...
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Boeing bids for more modification work
Boeing is seeking to take a larger share of the market for modification of its airliners. It is forming a business unit to provide conversion, upgrade and engineering services to airlines and maintenance centres. The new Boeing Airplane Services unit is built around the company's Wichita, Kansas-based 747 passenger-to-freighter conversion ...
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KAI companies set June merger target
Andrzej Jeziorski/SINGAPORE South Korea's Daewoo Heavy Industries, Hyundai Space and Aircraft and Samsung Aerospace Industries have set a deadline of the end of June to complete their long-awaited merger. The companies are initiating an asset valuation programme before forming a new company, to be called Korean Aerospace Industries (KAI). ...
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Merger lifts Westland/Agusta into world league
GKN Westland Helicopters of the UK and Italy's Agusta are to merge, giving the as-yet unnamed venture the critical mass to compete with its bigger rivals in Europe and the USA. The merged company could be the second largest rotorcraft manufacturer in the world by the time the deal ...
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Russian/US tussle over UAE air defence system intensifies
Russia and the USA have stepped up their politicised battle to supply the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with a new long- range air defence system. This is despite widening speculation at the show that the programme had been put on hold pending resolution of the UAE's Lockheed Martin F-16D Block ...
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Gulf states go shopping - but there's no big deal
As US and UK warplanes continued to bombard neighbouring Iraq , defence officials and military representatives from Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states went shopping. Their marketplace: the 4th International Defence Exhibition and Conference, or IDEX 99, in the United Arab Emirates capital, Abu Dhabi. About 850 exhibitors from 41 ...
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Boeing clinches USAF C-17 weapons deal
Boeing is to supply six more flight simulators for the C-17 transport under a USAir Force contract potentially worth $124 million. The first of the new weapon system trainers (WSTs) - to be built by FlightSafety International (FSI) - will be delivered in January 2002. The C-17 aircrew training ...
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CAE puts one roof over UK operations
CAE Electronics has opened a £13 million ($21 million) facility at Burgess Hill in the UK, bringing under one roof operations that had been spread over several UK sites. The move allows CAE's UK arm, best known for military land systems simulation work, to grow, particularly in flight simulation ...
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Swedish air force gets second Gripen FMS
Lockheed Martin has delivered the second of two Saab JAS 39 Gripen full mission simulators (FMS) to the Swedish air force. The final two of five lower-fidelity multi-mission trainers (MMT) will be delivered later this year. The FMS combines an actual JAS39 cockpit with a dome visual display incorporating ...
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Elbit and IAI to discuss rescue for Thai F-5 upgrade
Elbit Systems is seeking a deal with Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) to kick-start an upgrade programme for the Thai air force's Northrop F-5s which has been hit by budget cuts. Talks between the Israeli companies are expected soon in an effort to assemble a finance package. Elbit had earlier won ...
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US Air Force command to evaluate Litening pod
The US Air Force's Air Combat Command (ACC) is to evaluate the Rafael Litening targeting and navigation system as part of its planned procurement of up to 500 night attack systems to replace the two-pod Lockheed Martin Lantirn. The US Air National Guard (ANG) and Reserve command have already ...
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Bombardier wins Australian UAV lease competition
Peter La Franchi/CANBERRA Bombardier Defence Systems has won an Australian Department of Defence competition for the short-term lease of a tactical unmanned air vehicle (TUAV), with its Guardian CL-327 vertical take-off and landing system. A contract is expected to be signed in the next two to three weeks. Bombardier ...
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Australia draws up shortlist for scout helicopter competition
The Australian Department of Defence is expected to release a shortlist for its armed reconnaissance helicopter project by the end of this month. Industry sources are widely tipping the Agusta Scorpion variant of the A129 (above), Eurocopter's Tiger and the Boeing AH-64 Apache as the final contenders. The project is ...
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USN picks Lockheed Martin for P-3C service life assessment
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC Lockheed Martin Aeronautical Systems (LMSA) believes that the company's selection by the US Navy to conduct a P-3C Orion Service Life Assessment Programme (SLAP) will lead to a major airframe modification effort to keep the USN's long-range maritime-patrol aircraft flying until 2015. With 200 USN P-3Cs ...
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Sweden tests Viggen upgrade
The Swedish air force has begun flight testing an enhanced tactical situation display for the Saab JA37 Viggen interceptor as part of the aircraft's Mod D upgrade programme. Five aircraft will take part in flight tests. A decision on series production is expected in the next few weeks, says Ericsson ...
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Fuzzy logic
Letting like-minded states have your sophisticated defence technology and seeing them line up with you politically tend to go hand in hand. Not so for the USA. Just as soon as America realised the political and commercial benefits of defence exporting - it can simultaneously offset the costs of developing ...
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Czech Republic gets ready to issue RFI for fighter equipment
Andrew Doyle/MUNICH The Czech Republic is expected to issue its long-awaited request for information (RFI) covering the acquisition of Western fighters by 1 April, according to sources close to the Czech Government. The RFI will call for proposals based on the purchase or lease of 36 aircraft required ...
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Pakistani pilot deal linked to US block on UAE technology release
Plans by the United Arab Emirates air force to contract up to 200 Pakistan air force fighter pilots to fly F-16D Block 60 fighters it has ordered from Lockheed Martin are at the heart of the US Government's decision to block the release of sensitive technology to the Gulf state, ...