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ML Aviation snaps up Frazer-Nash
ML AVIATION HAS acquired the product range of Frazer-Nash Defence Systems, a division of the UK's Airscrew Howden. The move is aimed at establishing the firm as "a world leader in the design, development and manufacture of airborne weapons carriage and release systems". ML Aviation, a subsidiary of ...
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Expansion helps Lockheed to more wins
LOCKHEED MARTIN'S win rate on competitions is now running at around 60%, as the group begins to take full advantage of the new scope and range of its merged operations says chief executive Norman Augustine. The rate, which is around double the US industry average, is already being ...
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Slow slow, quick quick, slow
The Sukhoi Su-37 made a spectacular impact. Alexander Velovich/MOSCOW SPECTACULAR EVIDENCE that the Russian aircraft industry is still alive came to the 1996 Farnborough air show with the international debut of Sukhoi's thrust-vectoring Su-37 Flanker. The aircraft is a further development of the Su-27/35 fighter series, ...
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Sukhoi plans to fly foreplane-equipped two-seat Su-30MK
Douglas Barrie/LONDON SUKHOI EXPECTS to fly a foreplane-equipped derivative, of its basic two-seat Su-30 in the next few months, according to senior managers at the Irkutsk manufacturing plant, where the prototype is being built. The canard design was first associated with the Su-27K and Su-27M. Sukhoi ...
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Swedish defence unit
THE SWEDISH DEFENCE Materiel Administration, FMV, has taken delivery of the first re-engined Saab 105 jet trainer. The aircraft, carrying the Swedish air force designation SK60, has new Williams Rolls FJ44 engines. A test aircraft, used by Saab Military Aircraft, has also been delivered to FMV for further ...
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Dassault raises stakes in Eastern Europe bids
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH FRANCE HAS RAISED the stakes in the competition to secure a string of fighter-aircraft contracts in Eastern Europe by offering to sell its latest air-to-air weapons as part of any deal. US rivals have not been cleared by their Government to go beyond technical ...
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MDC demonstrates F-15 with SEAD
McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) is flight-testing an F-15 equipped with a system to locate and identify enemy radars. Although the US Air Force has decided not to proceed with development of the precision direction-finding (PDF) system for the F-15, Congress has allocated funds to complete the demonstration/ validation phase now under ...
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Bell rings up sales for 427s during show
BELL HELICOPTER Textron won firm orders for 22 Model 427 light twin-turbine helicopters during the Farnborough air show. Orders for the eight-seat helicopter were placed by 11 Pacific Rim customers, seven European, three Middle Eastern and one from the USA. "These firm orders for a helicopter ...
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Cruise missiles miss Iraqi targets
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC NEARLY ONE QUARTER of the 44 Tomahawk land-attack cruise missiles (TLAMs) and Boeing AGM-86C conventional air-launched cruise missiles (CALCMs) launched at Iraqi targets during raids on 3 September failed to strike their intended targets, says the US Department of Defense. Thirty-one Tomahawks and ...
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US GAO fears tanker-aircraft shortfall
ALTHOUGH US military refuelling-aircraft meet current needs, satisfying future requirements may be difficult, concludes a recent US General Accounting Office (GAO) report. The US Department of Defense operates almost 900 tanker aircraft, including 550 Boeing KC-135s and 60 McDonnell Douglas KC-10s, which also have a cargo role. The ...
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MDC reveals KC-17 cargo/tanker details
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) has unveiled details of proposed KC-17 cargo/tanker versions of its C-17 transport, which could form the bulk of as many as 50 aircraft predicted as potential foreign military sales. Details of the aircraft configuration were given to senior British Army ...
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Crazy Hawk RC-7Bs go to South Korea
TWO HEAVILY MODIFIED US Army de Havilland RC-7B airborne reconnaissance aircraft have been deployed for operations in South Korea. The aircraft have been fitted with the Crazy Hawk ARL-M (airborne-radar low-multi-function) radar system derived from the Hughes-made HiSAR high-resolution ground-mapping radar. In conjunction with California Microwave, ...
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Boeing scours world for engineers
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELESand Andrew Doyle/LONDON BOEING IS STEPPING up a massive worldwide recruitment drive in an effort to find engineers to cope with a record number of commercial-, space- and military-product developments. "We're hiring everybody we can get," says the company, which is searching for up ...
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Eurocopter embargo payment judgment due in October
A FRENCH Commercial Court will judge on 3 October on whether Eurocopter should pay an international arms dealer for allegedly arranging the sale of 50 Super Pumas to South Africa during the United Nations arms embargo to the country (Flight Inter- national, 1-6 May). The ...
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First Czech Sokols ready
THE FIRST OF 11 POLISH-BUILT W-3A SOKOL helicopters are to be delivered to the Czech air force's 6th Aviation Unit this month. The first batch will consist of three transport helicopters and will be followed by four more by the end of November. Four W-3As equipped for search-and-rescue duties will ...
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Banging out
The Denel Group is introducing a canopy-fragilisation system (which eases ejection from a military aircraft) for use in combat aircraft. The South African companies PMP division has qualified the system on jet-aircraft types and is installing it for the South African Air Force. Source: Flight International
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Date is set for Eurocopter hearing
THE LEGAL action being brought by Beverley Securities (BSI) against Eurocopter alleging that it failed to pay commissions on defence equipment supplied to the apartheid regime in South Africa, is to have a public hearing on 12 September in Paris (Flight International, 1-6 May). BSI claims that Aerospatiale's ...
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Cruise-missile strikes on southern Iraq satisfy US officials
PENTAGON officials say that they are "satisfied" with the success of the air and cruise-missile strikes carried out on 3 September in the southern Iraq no-fly zone, which followed Iraqi military action against Kurdish safe havens in the north. Fourteen Hughes Tomahawk land-attack missiles (TLAMs) were fired from ...
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F-18s are shown to Hungary
Gabor Szekeres/BUDAPEST McDONNELL DOUGLAS has joined the competition for the Hungarian air force's multi-role-fighter requirement, with a demonstration of its F-18 Hornet to senior defence officials at the Kecskemet Air Force base. The F-18D was taken on a ten-day tour of Hungary, the Czech Republic ...
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US military suffers spate of crashes
THE CRASH OF A US AIR Force McDonnell Douglas F-15E Strike Eagle during a training flight in Idaho on 27 August, rounded off a series of US military accidents to take place during the month. The pilot of the F-15E, which was assigned to the 390th Fighter Squadron ...