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Allied near to completing F-22...
AlliedSignal is in "the final throes" of high-altitude testing of the auxiliary-power generating system (APGS) for the Lockheed Martin F-22, in a bid to clear the full envelope before the fighter has its first flight, planned for the end of May. Revealing details of the integrated APGS on ...
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Turkish F-4s arrive in Israel...
The first of 54 Turkish air force McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantoms being upgraded by Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) were flown to Tel Aviv in March. The upgrade includes the installation of a new Elta radar. They first few aircraft will be modified by IAI in Israel, with the rest going ...
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Australia impounds Papua New Guinea-bound Mi-24s
Australia has intervened in a pending dispute between a UK military consultancy and the Papua New Guinea (PNG) Government over ownership of an arms shipment, including four Russian military helicopters, now on Australian soil. Australian prime minister John Howard says that the diversion of the Antonov An-124, which ...
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Apache scalped by Rooivalk in Malaysia
Malaysia and South Africa are finalising a deal covering the purchase of an initial eight Denel CSH-2 Rooivalk attack helicopters. If signed, it would mark the Rooivalk's first export order. Malaysia has given the clearest indication to date that it has opted to purchase the Rooivalk, rather than ...
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A changing challenge
It is now a foregone conclusion that the aircraft the F-22 was designed to outperform will never enter service, with the West having seen the last of the big MiGs. With the fall of the Soviet Union, however, the USAir Force has begun to see potential threats to its air ...
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Working together
THREE COMPANIES came together to develop the F-22 in the belief that their combined resources would be required to see the programme through to production. They are being proved right. So far, the F-22 industry team has invested about $2 billion on the programme, estimates programme ...
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Common modules take control
ADVANCING THE STATE of the art in system design and integration has enabled the F-22 team to meet demanding weight and cost budgets "flowed down" to the subsystem level by the integrated product-team structure. Many of the traditional boundaries between systems have be blurred in a bid to ...
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Human centred
PILOT-VEHICLE INTERFACE is a dry, but accurate, description of the centrepiece of the F-22's array of technologies. The F-22 cockpit is seen as a showcase of the team's achievement in integrating human potential into the aircraft. It is here, under the single-piece canopy, strapped into the modified ACES ...
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Balancing act
BALANCE IS A term used repeatedly by the F-22's designers when describing what they have achieved, and balancing lethality, survivability, supportability and affordability - and several other 'ilities' - has proved a formidable task. Driving the design was the requirement to combine stealth with speed and agility, in ...
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Fishbed facelift
A familiar, delta-winged dart descends to a smooth landing at Aerostar's Bacau base, with the Carpathian mountains forming a hazy backdrop to this once improbable scene. It would have been unthinkable as recently as seven years ago that a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 (NATO code-name "Fishbed") - the most widely-used fighter the ...
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European commissions
European Aviation Air Charter (EAA) is one of the UK's youngest airlines, but it already employs more than 200 people and boasts a fleet of 15 100-seat aircraft. It has established European Joint Aviation Requirements (JAR)-145 approval for its maintenance operation, and, more recently, a pilot-training centre at its Bournemouth ...
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Back from the brink
AN AIRFORCE is rarely satisfied with its allotted budget, and many military air wings have fine-tuned the art of pleading poverty into a way of lobbying for extra cash. The Philippine Air Force, however, has been forced to endure more hardships than most. Years of financial neglect have been compounded ...
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Hawkeye shows the way to procurement savings
THE US NAVY'S E-2C Hawkeye airborne-early-warning (AEW) aircraft is being singled out by Paul Kaminski, the US Defense Department's acquisition chief, as a model for Pentagon acquisition reform. He says that application of new procurement practices will yield "billions of dollars in savings", including an estimated $375 million ...
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Indonesia turns to MiG-29 as F-16 delay continues
The Indonesian military is beginning to show interest in the MAPO-MiG Mikoyan MiG-29 Fulcrum, in the wake of its continued failure to obtain an additional batch of nine Lockheed Martin F-16A/Bs from the USA. According to local sources, Indonesian officials have begun obtaining initial information on the Russian ...
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Pentagon expects more JSF partners...
The US Defense Department expects further states to join the Joint Strike Fighter project in the near future, with several agreements expected to be concluded this month. The USA and UK - full partners in the next-generation fighter programme - can expect to see Norway, the Netherlands and ...
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UAE looks at buying more...
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) air force is considering purchasing an additional number of Dassault Mirage 2000E fighter aircraft, as well as carrying out a major upgrade on the aircraft it already has in service. The service is looking at purchasing six, eight, or 18 further Mirage 2000s, ...
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Comanche takes aim
FLIGHTTESTING of the Boeing/ Sikorsky RAH-66 Comanche scout/ attack helicopter is "making progress and staying safe", the team says. With only one prototype available, and an annual fight for funds to keep that aircraft flying, safe expansion of the flight envelope is paramount, says flight-test director Clarence Hutchinson. ...
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China considers Rafale/M88
France and China are in discussions over the possibility of the Chinese air force acquiring the Dassault Rafale next-generation fighter aircraft. Chinese officials, including senior procurement officers, initially visited Dassault in 1996, while, more recently, French representatives, including those from Rafale engine manufacturer Snecma, have spent a considerable ...
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MIGMAPO reveals light fighter project
MIG MAPO has begun work on a new fifth-generation fighter design in the wake of the collapse of its 1.42 fighter project for the Russian air force. The project, the Lightweight Multi-function Fighter (LFI), was revealed by MiG MAPO director of strategic planning Alexander Ageyev. He describes it ...
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Rising star
In the byzantine world of the Russian aerospace industry, perhaps nothing should come as a surprise.The emergence, however, of Alexei Fedorov as Sukhoi's general director was an unexpected triumph for the boss of the Irkutsk Aviation Industrial Association. Fedorov's ascension has come at the expense of Mikhail Simonov, ...