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USAF could contract out F-22 training in bid to reduce costs
The US Air Force is considering handing over training for the Lockheed Martin/ Boeing F-22 to industry in a bid to reduce costs. A decision on whether to "contractorise totally" F-22 training will be taken during 1998, says Leo Rickmers, Boeing's manager for F-22 training devices. Boeing, which is ...
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Eurofighter aims for Singapore sale
Eurofighter is scheduled shortly to begin making formal presentations on the EF2000 to the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF), to meet the service's requirement for a Northrop F-5E/F replacement. Singapore is understood to have requested an EF2000 briefing as part of its preliminary evaluation of candidate next-generation fighters. ...
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Reflectone wins UKHawk school deal
Reflectone UK hopes to sign a contract by mid-December to build and operate a training school for the Royal Air Force's British Aerospace Hawk T1 trainers. The company has been selected as the preferred bidder for the contract, to be awarded under the UK Ministry of Defence's private-finance initiative. ...
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Malaysia reconsiders Rooivalk as Singapore seeks Apaches
Malaysia is indicating that it might revise an earlier decision to postpone ordering the Denel CSH-2 Rooivalk, as neighbouring Singapore moves towards finalising its own attack-helicopter selection by mid-1998. According to senior defence sources in Malaysia, the Government is once again showing interest in the South African helicopter after ...
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Singapore seeks fighter trainers
Singapore has requested proposals for a fighter-training system which will include simulators for the Lockheed Martin F-16, McDonnell Douglas A-4S and Northrop F-5E. Bids are due in by mid-December. Bidders could include CAE Electronics, Hughes Training, and Lockheed Martin with Thomson Training &Simulation. The Integrated Fighter Training (IFT) contract ...
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Lucas for JSF
Rolls-Royce-owned Allison Engine has selected Lucas Aerospace to supply the lift- fan drive shaft for Lockheed Martin's Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) concept development aircraft. Allison is supplying the lift fan for the aircraft. The value of the contract has not been disclosed. Lucas Aerospace is also supplying the lift-fan clutch-control ...
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Taiwan Turbo Tracker
Northrop Grumman has been awarded a $24 million foreign-military-sales contract from the US Navy to repair and refurbish a TW-3 aircraft operated by the Taiwanese air force. The TW-3 is Taiwan's designation for the Northrop Grumman E-2C Hawkeye airborne early-warning aircraft. The country purchased four E-2Cs in 1994 to provide ...
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Tornado forecast
The Royal Air Force's Panavia Tornado GR4 will form the core of its conventional strike capability until around 2020 Douglas Barrie/LONDON The Panavia Tornado GR4's progress from paper project to production has been far from smooth, the development path being littered with delays, the danger of cancellation and a critical ...
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Italians sign up for 18 C-130Js
Andrea Spinelli/GENOA The Italian air force has signed its long-awaited deal with Lockheed Martin for the delivery of 18 C-130J Hercules 2 transports. It is now considering a further order of C-130Js to meet an airborne-early-warning (AEW) requirement. At the same time, the US armed forces have ordered ...
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CH-60 completes first shipboard deployment
The Sikorsky Aircraft CH-60 fleet-combat-support helicopter has successfully completed its first shipboard deployment in the Atlantic as part of a US Navy test programme to demonstrate that it has enough performance for the required missions. The CH-60 combines features of the US Army's UH-60 Black Hawk and the USN's ...
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Lockheed Martin eyes USAF role for KTX-2
Lockheed Martin is helping Samsung Aerospace to design and develop the KTX-2 light combat aircraft/advanced trainer with a view to offering a version to the US Air Force to meet its future Bomber Fighter Training System (BFTS) requirement. The BFTS programme will provide the USAF with an eventual replacement ...
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Polish Gripen
Polish air force commander-in-chief Kazimierz Dziok has become the first Polish pilot to fly the Saab JAS 39 Gripen, one of the aircraft being considered for Poland's new fighter requirement. The flight - in a two-seat JAS39B - took place during a visit to Sweden shortly before the arrival of ...
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Comanche and Apache ride out together
The Boeing/Sikorsky RAH-66 Comanche, which resumed flight-testing with a new transmission in August at Sikorsky's West Palm Beach, Florida, test site has yet to undertake critical snap turns, but has reached a top airspeed of 171kt (316.4km/h). The single Comanche prototype (seen alongside the US Army's attack helicopter, the Boeing ...
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Phazotron offers China second alternative for its F-10 radar
Douglas Barrie/LONDON Russian radar design house Phazotron is offering China an electronically scanned phased-array radar for the Chengdu F-10 fighter aircraft alongside the mechanically steered variant of the Zhuk, or N-010, already on offer for the project. When Phazotron revealed its bid for the F-10 radar, it described ...
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Eagle Eye VTOL demonstrator gets airborne again
The Bell Helicopter Eagle Eye tiltrotor unmanned air vehicle (UAV) has resumed flying in preparation for the forthcoming US Navy vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) demonstration, which may lead to the fielding of an operational system. The USN's plans for a maritime VTOL UAV were shelved five years ago, ...
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Training in private
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Tomorrow's combat pilots could find themselves training in classrooms, in simulators, or even in aircraft bearing a plaque with the legend "Owned and operated by-". Whether the term is "contractise", "privatise" - or, some would complain, compromise - the commercial operation of military training is fast ...
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Turn off the TAP
Doug Cameron. For years TAP has had a public face only a mother could love. 'SAir didn't sign an alliance agreement with us because of our beautiful eyes,' admits Manuel Ferreira Lima, the airline's chairman. The challenge he faces is to convince the market that the changes he has pushed ...
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Snecma takes on GE in push to double CFM56 maintenance
Julian Moxon/PARIS Snecma is mounting a determined effort to double its share of the increasingly lucrative market for maintaining CFM56 engines, competing head-on with its CFM International partner General Electric. Through its Snecma Services division, formed in January, the French manufacturer says that it intends to ...
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Lockheed Martin offers ex-RAF C-130Ks
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Lockheed Martin Aeronautical Systems has begun reselling up to 25 C-130K Hercules due to be traded in by the Royal Air Force in part-exchange for new-build C-130Js. The US manufacturer plans to submit proposals to 13 different potential buyers in the next four to ...
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F-22 Raptor still suffers overweight problems
The Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22 Raptor advanced tactical fighter continues to exceed its target weight, but is meeting all of its performance specifications, says Paul Schlein, Lockheed Martin's F-22 deputy air-vehicle product manager. The weight is expected to increase slightly as the engineering and manufacturing development programme continues, but ...