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US fighter hopefuls see role for BAe
British Aerospace looks likely to take part in the new US Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) programme whoever wins this plum contract, says Boeing's defence and space chief Jerry King. Speaking at Farnborough, King was full of praise for the role BAe could play in the next generation of US ...
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CJ-130J on Show - by satellite
Original plans by Lockheed Martin to bring the C-130J Hercules 2 to Farnborough had to be scrapped because the programme is behind schedule - but the company has shown the aircraft at the flight-test base in Marietta, Georgia, via a live satellite hook-up. Lockheed Martin is saying only that ...
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Dowty fuels a SAAB deal
Dowty Aerospace of the UK has signed a contract worth approximately £7.5 million ($11.7 million) with Saab Military Aircraft for a health monitoring system on the Gripen. The new system improves survival, should inflight damage occur to the fuel system, by constantly monitoring the aircraft's fuel flow and automatically ...
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Training on onteractive system
Canadian training systems manufacturer CAE Electronics brings its Interactive Tactical Environmental Management System (ITEMS) to Farnborough. Military training requires ever more realistic interactive environments. Recent demand has been for improved joint exercise scenarios. ITEMS aims to push trainees to the limits with a range of features which, ...
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Boeing, R-R in bid to re-engine USAF B-52s
A "revolutionary deal" to equip the USAF's fleet of B-52 strategic bombers with at least $1 billion worth of leased Rolls-Royce engines is looking good, says Jerry King, president of Boeing Defense and Space. "The USAF is very enthusiastic," he said on Wednesday at Farnborough. Under the deal, ...
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Lockheed - Alenia JV targets airlifter market
Lockheed Martin has now signed a joint venture agreement with Alenia to develop and market a tactical airlifter based on the Italian company's G222. The new aircraft model, called the C-27J, will take the cockpit and advanced systems of the Lockheed Martin C-130J Hercules, now in flight-test, and integrate ...
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Gripen partners eye foreign sales potential
The most likely export customers for the Gripen fighter remain eastern/central Europe, South America and both the Middle and Far East, say joint venture partners Saab and British Aerospace. Following the signing of a memorandum of understanding, the Hungarian air force was thought to be the most likely candidate ...
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Growth areas
The overhaul and repair of components has become a major growth area for Electron Beam Process (H3/B17). The company provides an electron beam welding service to the aircraft and defence industries and has expanded its expertise from general prime production to include the overhaul side of the business. ...
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Jernas pokes hole in the Stealth's cloak of secrecy
RAF Regiment Jernas missile crews had America's super-secret B-2 Stealth bomber firmly in their sights on Monday during the aircraft's brief appearance over Farnborough, perhaps revealing cracks in it's protective cloak. Using the BAe Jernas thermal optical tracking system, they acquired and targeted the Northrop Grumman Spirit at a ...
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Canada set to welcome Nato flying trainees
Brig Gen Clark Little of the Canadian Forces Air Command reckons that a go-ahead decision on the proposed Nato Flying Training in Canada (NFTC) programme is a mere 60 days away. A joint project between the Canadian Forces, Bombardier, British Aerospace and Embraer, NFTC plans to put the abundant ...
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Koreans on the lookout for sales force to market trainer
Daewoo Heavy Industries has just begun basic design on the fifth prototype of the KTX-1 trainer and is gearing up for the full scale production necessary to meet planned delivery deadlines at the turn of the century. Duck-Joo Ra, managing director at the company's Aerospace R&D Centre, says the ...
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Forme astronaut sees Mars as the next space frontier
As a pioneer of the US space programme who risked his life on three spaceflights and almost lost it on his fourth - Apollo 13 - former Navy Capt Jim Lovell could be forgiven for feeling a bit let down. Isn't the US space programme a shadow of its ...
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More maintenance contracts
Portuguese company OGMA arrives at Farnborough in buoyant mood with its expanding list of maintenance contracts for private clients and foreign air forces. OGMA (H3/C5) has been in operation since 1918 and is now under the control of the Portuguese ministry of defence. The company has been appointed ...
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Northrop offers JSTARS for UK, Nato roles
Important Nato military and political decision-makers are to visit Northrop Grumman's E-8 JSTARS aircraft at Farnborough this week as the battle to provide Britain and Nato with an airborne ground surveillance capability reaches a crucial phase. The company's JSTARS aircraft dominates the western end of the Farnborough static park ...
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A picture speaksa a thousand words
German company Grob graphically underlines the premier role of its G115 trainers with this picture of 30 aircraft from the Perth, Western Australia-based China Southern West Australian Flying College, which trains pilots for China Southern Airlines and other associated airlines. Grob G115s are claimed to have an almost infinite ...
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Fighting talk from veteran jet jockeys
Fighter aircraft almost always provide the most eye-catching and impressive of flying displays at air shows, but can the expert eye compare competitors by watching these aerobatics? Two people who do know how to assess a flying display, as well as how to perform one, are Neil Anderson and ...
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Face the facts with...Dr John Waszczak
US Navy Tomahawk land attack missiles (TLAM) were used yesterday by US forces to punish Iraqi aggression. Dr John Waszczak, managing director of Hughes UK, describes his company's deadly cruise missile Q: Could you describe why TLAMs are used in operations such as yesterday's strike on Iraq? ...
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F-16 and Rafale in dog fight for UAE strike force order
United Arab Emirates (UAE) air force's strike-fighter competition appears to have narrowed to a straight contest between the Lockheed Martin F-16 and the Dassault Rafale. Lockheed Martin says it has been notified that the McDonnell Douglas F-15 has been de-selected out of the competition, and that just the F-16 ...
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US cruise missiles slam Iraqi targets
US air and naval forces launched 27 cruise missiles at air defence sites in Iraq hours before US President Bill Clinton announced a major extension of the No Fly Zone to the outskirts of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. The attack was a much anticipated response to Iraq's incursion into ...
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Early warning for market as heavyweights join forces
In a teaming of US giants, Lockheed Martin and Northrup Grumman have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to capture business in the international airborne early warning/command & control (AEW&C) market. The two companies plan to market an AEW&C variant of Lockheed Martin's C-130J Hercules. Northrop Grumman's vice-president ...