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Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman agree to join forces
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC TWODAYS AFTER the US Government approved Boeing's merger with McDonnell Douglas (MDC), Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman announced that they, too, are to merge. The "new" Lockheed Martin will have annual sales of $37 billion, less than Boeing/MDC's $48 billion, but it will remain the ...
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Myasishchev joins VPK MAPO group
Myasishchev has become the latest in a growing list of design bureaux to join the VPK MAPO aerospace-defence group. Myasischev's consolidation comes at the behest of the Russian Government. The Sokol production plant in Nizhny Novogorod, which is producing MAPOMiG-29UB Fulcrum B trainers, MiG-31 Fox- hound interceptors and ...
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What's on
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Europe: US victim or partner in aerospace industry?
Sir - The editorial "Europe 0, USA 1" was correct to spell out the global complexities of the world aerospace industry today. The joint British Aerospace/ Lockheed Martin venture on the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) may well represent the future. This does not mean, however, the end of ...
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Proposed Lockheed Martin alliance angers IAI workers
Workers at Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI)have reacted angrily to Lockheed Martin's discussions over taking a share in the Israeli company, if and when it is privatised. IAI chairman Yanuch Ben-Gal reveals that a high-level meeting between executives from the two companies took place at the start of the ...
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Jospin pledges industry review
Julian Moxon/PARIS French prime minister Lionel Jospin has promised a "profound" review of the aeronautical industry, but in his speech at the close of the Paris Air Show on 22 June, he stopped short of confirming the privatisations of Thomson-CSF and Aerospatiale. "I know what is ...
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Own goal
The most eagerly awaited statement on the future of the aerospace industry is the one which new French prime minister Lionel Jospin did not make at the end of the Paris air show. Jospin, like the US Government will with the Boeing/McDonnell Douglas merger, is going to have to decide ...
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F-22 757 testbed arrives at Seattle
The Boeing 757 flying testbed for the Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22 Raptor has been delivered to Seattle, where the aircraft will be based. The Raptor will be fitted with the Northrop Grumman APG-77 phased-array radar later this year. It will also be fitted with a sensor wing on the crown of ...
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Netherlands picks pods for F-16 mid-life update
GEC-Marconi's Atlantic navigation pod and Lockheed Martin's Sharpshooter targeting pod have been selected by the Royal Netherlands Air Force as part of its Lockheed Martin F-16 mid-life upgrade. The Air Force has ordered 60 Atlantic forward-looking infra- red pods and ten Sharpshoooters worth a total of $90 million. Israel's Rafael ...
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Kaman concludes SH-20(A) deal with Australian Navy
The first of 11 Kaman SH-20(A) Super Seasprites for the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) will be delivered during the first half of 2001, with all deliveries completed halfway through 2002. Contract negotiations on the purchase were concluded in June. The helicopters will be operated from the RAN's ANZAC ...
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South Korea buys Lynx, delays C-130J
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE South Korea's ministry of national defence has announced formally its intention to go ahead with a $337 million deal to buy additional Westland Super Lynx naval helicopters and upgrade an earlier batch of machines already in service. The order covers a second batch of ...
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Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman to fly JSF avionics
Graham Warwick/FORT WORTH LOCKHEEDMARTIN has added two key company-funded tests to its Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) concept-demonstrator programme. The proposed avionics architecture will be flight-tested in team member Northrop Grumman's BAC One-Eleven, and Lockheed Martin will build a full-scale high-fidelity pole model of its JSF to determine radar ...
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Starring role
Ansett is being propelled on to the international stage, with its strategic partnership with ANZ and SIA Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE When Rod Eddington was approached to head Ansett, the former Cathay Pacific Airways managing director made a tie-up with Air New Zealand (ANZ) a prerequisite condition. After just ...
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In HARM's way
Several show debutantes at Le Bourget indicated that defeating air- defence radars remains high on air-force agendas. The USA is working on rocket-ramjet-powered dual-mode-seeker missile designs to provide a successor to the Texas Instruments AGM-88 High Speed Anti-Radiation Missile (HARM) in the defence suppression role. Two potential replacement ...
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Surviving intact
Julian Moxon/PARIS The surprise election of a left-wing government in the recent French elections has left the country's defence industry in a state of uncertainty, with several major programmes, outlined by the previous government in its 1997-2002 Loi de Programmation spending plan, up for review. One ...
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US Air Force draws up plans for privately funded F-15 training
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC THE USAIR FORCE plans a contractor-financed and operated aircrew training-system for the McDonnell Douglas F-15C air-superiority fighter. The winning company will be required to fund production of the system, with the Air Force paying for training services once it becomes operational, in March 1999. ...
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NATCO and BSC to move Cathay simulators
CATHAYPACIFIC Airways has selected Northwest Aerospace Training (NATCO) to move its simulators to Hong Kong's new Chek Lap Kok Airport. NATCO, a Northwest Airlines subsidiary, has teamed with Binghamton Simulator (BSC) to carry out the project. Planning began in June, and the simulators will be moved early in 1999. ...
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All eyes on ALCA
Andrzej Jeziorski/PRAGUE A military band played the fanfare from Jesus Christ Superstar as the L-159 - the first new Central European combat aircraft prototype since the fall of Communism - was officially rolled out at Aero Vodochody's factory near Prague, on 12 June. The choice of ...
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Muted concern speaks volumes
A recent poll by Airline Business lifts the lid on the attitudes of the big carriers to the proposed merger between Boeing and McDonnell Douglas. Yet the sheer complexity of the deal means a political solution is needed to avoid a transatlantic trade war, says MarkOdell. Amid all the hype, ...