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South Korea selects the Popeye
Rafael and Lockheed Martin have emerged as the victors in a battle with Rockwell to provide the South Korean air force with a stand-off missile for its Lockheed Martin F-16 and McDonnell Douglas F-4Phantom aircraft. Following a two-year evaluation, the air force has selected the AGM-142 variant of ...
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USAF chooses Warner
Warner Robins Air Logistics Center has been selected over Boeing and Lockheed Martin to provide depot maintenance for the US Air Force's Lockheed Martin C-5A/B Galaxy transport aircraft. The decision shifts heavy-cargo-aircraft overhaul from the San Antonio Air Logistics Center at Kelly AFB, Texas, due to close in ...
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Hughes UK wins order to supply RAF reconnaisance pods
Hughes UK has won a £55 million ($90 million) order from the UK Ministry of Defence to provide the Royal Air Force with reconnaissance pods for its Panavia Tornados. The Reconnaissance Airborne Pod for Tornado programme requires Hughes UK and Hughes Danbury Optical Systems to deliver eight pods and two ...
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Russian air force faces cuts to save projects
Alexander Velovich/MOSCOW Senior Russian defence-ministry officials are advocating cutting the vast majority of combat-aircraft and helicopter development projects now under way in Russia, in an attempt to protect a handful of core programmes. In early September, defence-ministry acquisition chief Col Gen Anatoly Sitnov told a special ...
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Greek fighter force
Rene van Woezik/Athens While recent Greek interest in the Boeing F-15 Eagle and Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker may have caught the eye, the core of its air force's combat fleet into the first decade of the next century will be built around the Lockheed Martin F-16C/D, deliveries of which ...
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Delay forces F-22 flight-test changes
Graham Warwick/Atlanta Initial flight-testing of the Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22 Raptor has been revised to accommodate the delayed first flight of the air-superiority fighter. Plans to fly the F-22 from Lockheed Martin's final-assembly plant in Marietta, Georgia, to the flight-test centre at the US Air Force's Edwards AFB, California, ...
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Lockheed Martin offers Boeing support
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Lockheed Martin is talking to Boeing about a partnership under which it would support the latter's commercial aircraft at its maintenance centres around the world. Aeronautics sector president Micky Blackwell says that Lockheed Martin wants to expand on soon-to-be-acquired Northrop Grumman's role as ...
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Qatar takes first Mirage 2000s
Julian Moxon/Paris Dassault Aviation has delivered the first three of 12 Mirage 2000-5 fighters to Qatar from its factory in Merignac, Bordeaux, as it continues to battle to win a major order for up to 80 aircraft from the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The versions delivered ...
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JSF Alliant ducts
Alliant Techsystems of the USA has been awarded a $6.2 million contract to manufacture the composite inlet ducts for the Lockheed Martin Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) demonstrator aircraft. Source: Flight International
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GEC steps up Il-76 AEW efforts
Paul Lewis/BEIJING GEC-Marconi is stepping up efforts to obtain an Ilyushin Il-76 transport from Russia to modify as an airborne-early-warning (AEW) aircraft for China in the face of Israel Aircraft Industries' (IAI's) recent success in acquiring a similar platform for its rival Phalcon radar. It is ...
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Racal-Thorn wins Lockheed Martin decoy work
Martin Streetly/LONDON Lockheed Martin has awarded Racal-Thorn Defence a contract worth more than £10 million ($16.6 million) to develop and fabricate a radio-frequency countermeasures-techniques generator for use with a Raytheon E-Systems fibre-optic towed decoy to be carried by the UK's British Aerospace Nimrod 2000 maritime-patrol aircraft. ...
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Kuwait is cleared to buy Longbow Apache
Kuwait is hoping to buy Boeing/McDonnell Douglas AH-64D Longbow Apache attack helicopters in a move which could sink efforts by Sikorsky Aircraft to provide the Gulf state with an armed version of the UH-60L Black Hawk helicopter. The US Department of Defense has formally notified Congress that Kuwait ...
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FADEC is replaced on Eurofighter engine
Ian Sheppard/LONDON Initial production-standard Eurojet EJ200 engines installed on the Italian DA3 Eurofighter EF2000 prototype have been fitted with a new full-authority digital engine-control (FADEC) system after the original unit was found to be overweight and unreliable. The engines are undergoing ground runs in Turin before ...
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Kamax delivery
Kaman Aerospace has delivered a K-MAX external lift helicopter to Bozeman, Montana-based Central Copters for use in logging operations in Montana and Idaho. The single-seat, single-turbine intermeshing-rotor helicopter can lift a maximum load of 2,700kg. Source: Flight International
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Germany thinks again on EF2000 defence system
Douglas Barrie/LONDON Germany's defence ministry is once again re-considering its position on a defensive-aids subsystem (DASS) for the Eurofighter EF2000 in the run-up to the project's approval by the German parliament. The other Eurofighter partner nations -Italy, Spain, and the UK - are effectively procuring a ...
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Demand for cuts may delay JASDF tanker plans
Paul Lewis/Singapore Demands for the Japan Defence Agency (JDA) to cut expenditure over the three remaining years of its 1996-2000 mid-term plan is threatening further delays for the Japan Air Self-Defence Force (JASDF) in its plans for the acquisition of its first in-flight refuelling tanker. The ...
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Aerospatiale to help Norway's NSM programme
Julian Moxon/PARIS Aerospatiale is to take a stake of around 10% in the development of Norway's New Ship Missile programme as part of a potentially wider anti-ship missiles co-operation between the two manufacturers. Norwegian prime contractor Kongsberg Defence and Aerospace selected Aerospatiale following negotiations with European ...
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South Korea considers plan to extend production of F-16s
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE A proposal to extend licence-production of the Lockheed Martin F-16C/D Korean Fighter Programme (KFP) appears to be gaining support, as budgetary pressure grows for the follow-on F-X fighter project to be delayed. A squeeze on South Korean defence expenditure is forcing the ministry of ...
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RAF selects Racal command and control
Racal-Thorn Defence has won the contract to build the UK Royal Air Force's Tactical Air Control Centre (TACC), which will fill a command and control capability-gap identified in the 1991 Gulf War. Although the TACC is due to enter service in March 1999, an initial capability will be ...
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More than collision avoidance
Harry Hopkins/LONDON An unplanned-for side-effect of the fitting of the traffic-alert and collision- avoidance system (TCAS) to airliners - compulsory already in the USA, and shortly to be so in Europe - is that pilots can have a much greater awareness of the positions of other aircraft around ...