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Goodnight MDC
BOEING'S $13.3 billion McDonnell Douglas (MDC) acquisition will make the company the world's largest manufacturer of military, as well as commercial, aircraft. While Lockheed Martin will remain the number one US defence contractor, Boeing will take up and expand MDC's mantle as the leading producer of combat aircraft. The merger ...
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Goodnight MDC
Combined, Boeing and McDonnell Douglas will become the world's largest manufacturer of combat and commercial aircraft.MDC expertise will lift Boeing's JSF hopes The main product line-up for the new Boeing BoeingMDC Civil business Airframes737MD-80 747MD-90 757MD-95 767MD-11 777 HelicoptersMD 500 Explorer BB609 (with Bell)MD 600 SpaceSpace StationDelta launcher US ...
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F-22 protege
A small US firm has been approved to produce composite parts for the Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22 fighter, under a "mentor-protegé" programme initiated by the Pentagon. Philadelphia-based C A Spalding, has been qualified to produce forward-fuselage components using resin-transfer moulding (RTM). F-22 prime-contractor Lockheed Martin and Dow-UT, which is producing RTM ...
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C-5 life-extension is 'affordable'
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA LOCKHEED MARTIN HAS completed a study commissioned by the USAir Force into upgrading the C-5 Galaxy transport to extend its service life until at least 2030. The company says that an upgrade costing $35 million or less per aircraft would reduce the C-5's operating cost per ...
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Details of JSF initial production are revealed
First details of the proposed initial production run of the US/UK Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) show that a sharp build-up is being planned, with more than 240 aircraft either due to be built, or to be under assembly, within six years of the first flight of development test aircraft. ...
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Kamov reveals Ka-52 MMW radar
Kamov has shown its Ka-52 two-seat derivative of the Ka-50 Hokum attack helicopter fitted with a mast-mounted "rotodome" intended to house a millimetre/centimetre-wave (MMW) radar. Although the development of the radar has previously been associated with St Petersburg-based Leninetz, Kamov says that the company responsible for the installation is Phazotron. ...
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Slovakian hokum
Slovakia is in the final stages of negotiating a deal with Russian state arms agency Rosvoorouzhenie, to purchase six Kamov Ka-50 Hokum attack helicopters. Some aircraft remain at the Progress production plant in Arseneyev. These were originally intended for the Russian armed forces, but have not been completed because of ...
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India to receive Krypton for its Sukhoi Su-30MKIs
The Indian air force will receive the Zvezda Kh-31A (AS-17 Krypton) supersonic anti-ship missile as part of the weapons package for its 40 Sukhoi Su-30MKI aircraft now on order. A model of the Indian air force aircraft displayed at the Aero India '96 show in Bangalore earlier this month showed ...
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Germany defers Helios II entry
Andrjez Jeziorski/MUNICH Germany has pushed back its entry into the joint Helios II/Horus reconnaissance-satellite programme with France by at least a year, but has committed to production of the Eurocopter Tiger and NH Industries NH90 military helicopters. The decisions were announced at the meeting of the ...
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Bell Boeing considers civil tilt-rotor as V-22 trainer
BELL BOEING PLANS to offer its Model 609 civil tilt-rotor to the US military as a trainer for crews destined to fly the V-22 tilt-rotor transport. Development of the nine-passenger 609 was launched in November, with a first flight planned for mid-1999 (Flight International, 27 November-3 December, ...
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History
The Tu-144 programme was started only in 1963, when the Soviet Government had told Tupolev that, although the equivalent Aerospatiale/ British Aerospace Concorde programme had started earlier, the Soviet aircraft should be the first to be flown - and it was. To speed things up, the design team ...
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Teledyne Ryan plans first engine runs of Global Hawk reconnaissance UAV
The Global Hawk Tier II Plus high-altitude reconnaissance platform was expected to have its first engine runs in the week beginning 16 December, as part of final preparations for completion in January and roll-out in early February 1997. The Global Hawk, with its 35.4m wingspan, was originally scheduled ...
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Derco Aerospace becomes virtual-propeller warehouse for the Pentagon
DERCO AEROSPACE is to provide "just-in-time" delivery of propeller parts to the US services. As the major subcontractor to Hamilton Standard on a "virtual prime-vendor" (VPV) contract awarded by the US Department of Defense under its Lean Logistics initiative the company will introduce commercial practices to military procurement. ...
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New UK helicopter school opts for Frasca
Frasca International is to supply cockpit-procedures trainers (CPTs) for the UK Defence Helicopter Flying School, which is being set up to take over all military helicopter training in the UK. The US manufacturer, based in Urbana, Illinois, will supply three CPTs - two for use in single-engine training ...
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Virtually commercial
Military simulators are benefiting from the fast pace of commercial computer development. Graham Warwick/ATLANTA INTHELAND of illusion, designed by Disney's imagineers, the simulation industry gathered in early December to dazzle its customers with the realism of the virtual worlds it can now create. While the packed ...
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IAI Turkish delight
Israel and Turkey have finally concluded an agreement covering the $600 million upgrade of 54 Turkish air force McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom fighter- bombers. The deal was signed on 6 December. The first 34 aircraft will be modified in Israel with Israel Aircraft Industries' (IAI) Lahav division acting as the ...
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France will offer multi-year Rafale/Tiger procurement
Julian Moxon/PARIS The French Government is offering multi-year procurement of the Dassault Rafale fighter and the Eurocopter Tiger anti-tank helicopter as a sweetener to its demand for major cost savings in both programmes. The Government proposal also supports setting up a single production line for ...
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Lockheed Martin and Hughes combine on IRST
Lockheed Martin and its principal subcontractor Hughes Aircraft are developing a shipboard infra-red search-and-track (IRST) system to combat incoming anti-ship cruise missiles. Under a $15 million, two-year contract, Lockheed Martin will develop and test an engineering demonstration model of the IRST. After completing phase one of engineering ...
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Germany sets up RMPA study to identify Atlantic successor
Germany is to phase out its Atlantics from 2005 Andrzej Jezorski/MUNICH German system-development house ESG has been given a Government contract to carry out a feasibility study to look at potential airframes and systems for a new German maritime-patrol aircraft (MPA). The German ...
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South Korea makes double choice of missiles for its F-4s
In a surprise conclusion to its stand-off weapon competition, South Korea is to purchase both the Rockwell AGM-130 and Lockheed Martin/Rafael AGM-142 air-to-surface missiles to equip its McDonnell Douglas F-4E Phantom fighter-bombers. The procurement, worth $250 million, represents South Korea's first purchase of the weapons, which will enhance the Phantom's ...