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JDA pushes for TFS-X
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE JAPAN'S DEFENCE Agency (JDA) has renewed its push for development of the tandem-seat TFS-X advanced trainer variant of the Mitsubishi FS-X support fighter as a way of extending aircraft production and cutting unit costs. The agency has unveiled plans to order a total ...
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Dutch air force spends $14m on Israeli ACE
THE DUTCH air force is to equip its Lockheed Martin F-16s with the Israeli-developed autonomous combat manoeuvres evaluation (ACE) system. The $14 million contract is for 138 systems and was signed in Israel on 5 September. The Rada-developed ACE has already been selected by the Israeli and Chilean air forces. ...
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'Nothing new' about F-22 overspending
REPORTS OF COST and weight overruns on the Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22 are "nothing new", the manufacturing team says. An US Air Force review, estimates that the $10.5 billion engineering and manufacturing development programme, will come in $572 million over budget, when it is completed in 2002. Lockheed Martin ...
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RAF signs Chinook deal
BOEING HELICOPTERS and the UK Ministry of Defence have completed contract negotiations for buying 14 HC Mk II CH-47D Chinook heavy-lift helicopters for the Royal Air Force. The $365 million contract calls for deliveries to begin in 1997 and be completed by early 1999. The RAF will eventually ...
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Japan plans thrust-vectoring engine trials
JAPAN'S TECHNICAL Research and Development Institute (TRDI) plans to equip its future fighter demonstrator engine with a thrust vectoring nozzle and has already begun ordering long lead components for the power plant. The TRDI is evaluating either equipping the XF3-400 engine with two-directional thrust deflection paddles or the ...
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Pentagon plans to test variant of Russia's AS-17 Krypton
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC MCDONNELL DOUGLAS Aerospace (MDA) officials and their Russian counterparts hope that the Pentagon-funded evaluation of a variant of Russia's Zvezda Kh-31 (AS-17 Krypton) rocket-/ramjet-powered anti-ship missile will lead to multi-year procurement of MA-31 aerial targets for test and evaluation and training by the US ...
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Nimrod crashes at Canadian air show
A ROYAL AIR Force (RAF) British Aerospace Nimrod MR2 maritime reconnaissance aircraft with a crew of seven crashed into Lake Ontario during its display sequence at the Canadian International Air Show, Toronto on 2 September. There were no survivors. When the aircraft hit the surface, about 200 nose-down, it had ...
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Shorts support
Shorts has secured two support services contracts worth £74 million ($115 million). The contracts, awarded by the UK Ministry of Defence for Royal Air Force Linton-on-Ouse and by a Middle East customer, cover the provision of a range of services including first, second and third line aircraft maintenance. The company ...
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Pakistan favours Mirage
Pakistani air force chief Gen. Mohammed Abbas Khattak has declared himself in favour of purchasing 32 Dassault Mirage 2000-5 fighters. "We have no choice but to buy French aircraft, even though they are very expensive," he told Pakistani newspaper Dawn. The country is unable to buy Lockheed F-16s, as its ...
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NIIP reveals phased- array radar for Su-35
Douglas Barrie/MOSCOW RUSSIAN RADAR design house NIIP has revealed that it is testing a phased-array radar for the Sukhoi Su-35 advanced derivative of the Su-27 Flanker. At the Moscow air show, NIIP showed an image of a fixed-array antenna mounted to the nose section of a ...
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Mirage shot down during NATO air strikes
A FRENCH AIR force Dassault Mirage 2000 was shot down near Pale during a series of extensive air strikes launched by NATO against Bosnian Serb positions beginning 30 August. Targets attacked included radar sites and surface-to-air-missile batteries, ammunition dumps and communications infrastructure. According to NATO, the air strikes ...
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Economic warfare
THE TERRITORIES of the former Warsaw Pact are threatening to become a battlefield once again. This time however, it is going to be a dog fight for market share, rather than a Cold War confrontation. US and European combat-aircraft manufacturers, are excited by new market prospects, in the ...
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Israel/Turkey agree on F-4 improvement
ISRAEL AND TURKEY have finally signed a framework agreement covering a $600 million upgrade programme for the latter's McDonnell Douglas F-4E Phantoms. The upgrade programme will be led by Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) and covers the upgrade of 54 Turkish air force F-4s. The agreement was signed in ...
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USA tempts Poles and Czechs with F-16 upgrade work offer
Douglas Barrie/LONDON THE USA WILL offer the Czech Republic and Poland industrial participation in Lockheed Martin F-16 mid-life update (MLU) projects to try to deflect criticism that buying the US fighter could be damaging to the domestic-aerospace industries of the two eastern European countries. According to ...
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AAR
Ran Ronen has joined AAR of Elk Grove Village, Illinois, as senior consultant, representing the company with governments in the Middle East, Europe and the Far East. Ronen spent 27 years with the Israeli Air Force, where he retired with the rank of Brigadier General, and, for three years until ...
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France may offer Clemenceau to foreign navies
FRANCE IS holding preliminary talks with several governments, including those of Argentina, China and India, about selling its ageing aircraft carrier, the Clemenceau, after it is withdrawn from French navy service. The Clemenceau, is scheduled to be replaced by the nuclear-powered Charles de Gaulle, equipped with Dassault Rafale ...
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Four companies invited to bid for NFTC turboprop trainers
Graham Warwick/Atlanta BOMBARDIER WILL brief manufacturers in the early part of September on the turboprop-trainer requirements for the proposed industry-run NATO Flying Training in Canada (NFTC) programme. Four companies have been invited to the bidders' conference: Aerospatiale, Embraer, Pilatus and Raytheon. Aircraft being considered are ...
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MDC joins with Rockwell to offer Goshawk to the RAAF
MCDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) has teamed with Rockwell Australia to offer the T-45A Goshawk for the Royal Australian Air Force's (RAAF) Lead-In Fighter (LIF) trainer programme. The T-45 is one of three aircraft still in the running to replace the RAAF's Aermacchi MB.326H trainers; the others are the Aermacchi MB.339FD and ...
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Bosnian battleground
The British Army's Airmobile Brigade deploys on its first operational outing, in Croatia. Tim Ripley/PLOCE A senior 24 Airmobile Brigade officer explains the rationale for dispatching the British Army brigade to reinforce the United Nat ions Protection Force (UNPROFOR) in the former Yugoslavia, saying: "We give ...