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Fakel moves into AAM market
RUSSIAN SURFACE-to-air missile (SAM) design house Fakel is attempting to break into new markets by offering two air-to-air versions of secret SAM development projects. Both weapons are being offered for the Sukhoi Su-27M (Su-35) Flanker. Fakel is working on an active-radar-guided medium-range missile (box right in picture) ...
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F-16 trainer for Kelly
Lockheed Martin F-16 pilots of the 182nd Fighter Squadron of the Texas Air National Guard's 149th Fighter Wing at Kelly AFB, San Antonio, will be the first to use a new Unit Training Device flight simulator at the base. The Hughes-built simulator is the first of 56 for the US ...
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Joint endeavour
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA UNIT FLYAWAY COST for some 3,000 production aircraft will be the deciding factor in the competition for the next phase of the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) programme. The risk involved in developing and producing an aircraft for the cost quoted will be the second major ...
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Tiger upgrade study attracts interest
THAILAND'S STUDY of a second-phase avionics and structural upgrade of its fleet of 36 Northrop Grumman F-5E/F Tiger II fighters is attracting strong international interest. The Royal Thai Air Force (RTAF) is understood to be holding initial discussions with several competing integrators, system vendors and airframe companies ...
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Indonesia completes hawk deal
INDONESIA HAS concluded a deal to purchase a second batch of 16 British Aerospace Hawk 200 light-strike aircraft. The Indonesian air force is understood to have signed a follow-on order with BAe for 16 single-seat Hawk 200s. The aircraft were covered by options from an earlier 1992 ...
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Saab prepares 2000 AEWC windtunnel tests
Andrzej Jeziorski/LINKOPING SAAB AIRCRAFT is about to begin windtunnel tests of an airborne early-warning and control (AEWC) version of its high-speed Saab 2000 turboprop. The aircraft offers better performance and superior command and control capability to that of the current Saab 340 AEW aircraft, the ...
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Turkey could join Europe's anti-tank missile project
TURKEY IS EMERGING as a potential partner in the European Long-Range (LR) Trigat anti-tank-missile programme to fill the hole left when the UK decided not to procure the missile as part of its attack-helicopter purchase. Initially, Turkish interest is understood to be in a vehicle-mounted variant of ...
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China ignores FC-1 doubts
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE CHINA IS LIKELY to go ahead with development of the Chengdu Aircraft (CAC) FC-1, despite growing doubts over Pakistan's support for the programme. According to defence sources, China's People's Liberation Army air force has a requirement for around 100 new FC-1 fighters, which is viewed as sufficient to ...
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Millon adds muddle to French helicopter number confusion
Millon adds muddle to French helicopter number confusion FRENCH DEFENCE minister Charles Millon has added to speculation over France's future attack- and transport-helicopter requirements by specifying a need for 215 Eurocopter Tigers for the army and a reduced purchase of "around" 160 NHIndustries NH90s. Millon's comments, in an interview with ...
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Slovenia studies Kfir purchase
SLOVENIA IS evaluating an Israeli offer to sell it eight to ten Israel Aircraft Industries Kfir fighter aircraft as part of an effort to become the Balkan country's main defence-systems supplier. Israel is providing assistance to Slovenia to define its defence requirements with a study covering land and air-force requirements ...
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Horizon in view with French army Cougar hand-over
THE FIRST Eurocopter Cougar helicopter fitted with the Horizon battlefield-radar surveillance system was officially handed over to the French army on 24 June. A second Horizon-equipped Cougar will be delivered in mid-1997. The Horizon is capable of being used to detect moving ground targets at ranges up to 200km (110nm). ...
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West Star
Fixed-base operator West Star Aviation, of Grand Junction, Colorado, has appointed Larry Graham president. Graham, a former US Navy Lockheed Martin C-130 engineer, was previously with Duncan Aviation as Lear Jet programme manager, director of customer service and director of engine and airframe shops. ...
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Alfa tests growth GE T700
GROUND TESTING of General Electric's growth T700/CT7 is under way at revenue-sharing partner Alfa Romeo Avio in Naples, Italy. The 1,850kW (2,500shp)-class turboshaft has already exceeded 2,000kW in testing, says Lou Bevilacqua, general manager of GE's turboprop/turboshaft department. The growth T700 combines the core of GE's CT7-9 turboprop ...
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Talon contest
New avionics will mean that the Northrop T-38 will have a service life spanning six decades. Tony Gill/WASHINGTON DC AFTER PAINSTAKING preparation, the US Air Force is in the final stages of selecting a contractor to upgrade its Northrop T-38 Talon supersonic trainers. Six teams are ...
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Six teams compete
OF THE NINE original contenders for the T-38 avionics-upgrade programme, six remain. Lockheed Martin elected not to bid, later re-entering the competition by acquiring Loral, while teams led by Harris and Singapore Technologies Aerospace, were eliminated from contention by the USAF. The six remaining are: Chrysler Technologies ...
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Hearts and minds
Enforcing peace in the former Yugoslavia has become the largest UK military-helicopter operation since the Gulf War. Tim Ripley/BOSNIA IN THE SIX MONTHS since NATO's Implementation Force (IFOR), took over from the United Nations, the task of keeping peace in Bosnia, it has successfully overseen ...
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Affordable avionics
Substantially cheaper avionics are essential if the Joint Strike Fighter is to be built. Graham Warwick/ATLANTA MORE THAN a decade before the aircraft is due to enter service, pilots are flying simulated Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) missions to ensure that the aircraft meets its primary objective - ...
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Long - Lining
Peter Gray/BLOOMFIELD Exclusive: Flight International is the first magazine to flight test the Kaman K-Max AFTER BEING introduced to the differences between flying helicopters with tail rotors and hydraulic servo systems and Kaman Aerospace's intermeshing rotors and servo-tab systems in the H-43 Husky (Flight International, 1-7 May), Kaman ...
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Ilyushin pushes the boat out on maritime-patrol Il-114
Alexander Velovich/MOSCOW ILYUSHIN HAS begun flight-testing a maritime-patrol variant of its Il-114 twin regional turboprop, the Il-114P. The Il-114P is being developed in collaboration with the Proton-Service scientific research centre, NPO Geophisica, NPO Poliot, VNII Radiotechniki "Skala", NII Sistemotechniki and NII Prinbornoi Automatiki. ...
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MDC F-18 selected for aeroelastic wing test
McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) and Rockwell have been selected to modify an MDC F-18 for a joint US Air Force/ NASA evaluation of an advanced control concept which makes use of wing warping. Lockheed Martin had considered proposing an F-16 for the evaluation. It declined to bid after ...