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NewsMissed targets prompt US Marine Corps to arm unmanned Shadows
The US Marine Corps will deploy AAI RQ-7 Shadows to Afghanistan armed with classified new gravity bombs in a demonstration that could pave the way for a dramatic expansion in the numbers of weaponised unmanned air vehicles (UAVs).
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Israel's trainer decision to hinge on industrial factors
The value of Israeli defence systems that will be purchased by Italy or South Korea if a trainer made by one of their domestic companies is selected by the Israeli air force will play a major role in the latter selection.
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NewsPICTURE & VIDEO: Lockheed delivers first two F-35Bs to training base
Lockheed Martin has delivered the US Marine Corps' first two F-35B training aircraft to Eglin AFB, Florida ...
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NewsPICTURE: UK's Voyager nears release to service milestone
The UK Royal Air Force is moving towards granting the release to service approval for its first Airbus A330-based Voyager tanker/transport ...
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NewsUK launches Hawk T2 instructor training, as BAE steps up T-X push
The UK has moved a step closer to training the first student pilots using its BAE Systems-built Hawk T2 fleet, while the company is also poised to strengthen its bid to sell a further development of the type to the US Air Force.
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NewsUK funds new UCAS research effort
BAE Systems and the UK Defence Science & Technology Laboratory will work together on a technology study linked to unmanned combat air systems ...
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NewsIAI tight-lipped over $1.1bn deal with Asian customer
Israel Aerospace Industries has signed a $1.1 billion deal to supply "defensive and offensive" systems to an undisclosed Asian customer ...
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NewsIndonesia to receive Super Tucano in March
Indonesia will receive its first four Embraer EMB-314 Super Tucano trainer/light attack aircraft in March 2012. The aircraft will be based at Abd Saleh...
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NewsIN FOCUS: Embraer's investment set to transform Portugal's fledgling aerospace industry
Five hundred years ago, Portuguese pioneers ventured to Brazil to seek their fortune in the young colony. Now Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer is on a transatlantic mission in the other direction to create its first overseas manufacturing outpost.
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NewsIN FOCUS: A400M partnership a decade ago would have set Portuguese industry on very different path
Had a political decision gone another way almost 10 years ago, the infant Portuguese aerospace industry might have taken a very different path.
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NewsIN FOCUS: KC-390 deal pushes transformation of OGMA
That Embraer has chosen OGMA - alongside design engineering specialist Empresa de Engenharia Aeronáutica (EAA) - to lead Portugal's involvement in the KC-390 airlifter and tanker programme comes perhaps as no great surprise.
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NewsSeoul readies F-X III RFP
South Korea could issue a request for proposal for its F-X III competition for 62 fighter aircraft as soon as next week. An industry source indicates...
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India approves Mica missile buy, but slips fighter decision
India's Cabinet Committee on Security has authorised a deal to equip the country's Dassault Mirage 2000 fighters with MBDA Mica air-to-air missiles, although the deal has yet to be officially signed.
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NewsTurkey approves F-35, Anka UAV purchases
Turkey has approved the purchase of an initial two Lockheed Martin F-35s and 10 Anka UAVs for its air force ...
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NewsBAE confident of closing improved Typhoon deal with Saudi Arabia
BAE Systems is confident of concluding talks with Saudi Arabia to adapt the terms of the country's Project Salam acquisition of 72 Eurofighter Typhoons, but has confirmed that the deal's increased price remains a topic of discussion.
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NewsPilots, protocols blamed for New Zealand UH-1 crash
A court of inquiry report into a fatal Royal New Zealand Air Force Bell UH-1H Iroquois crash on 25 April 2010 has attributed blame both to its pilots and the military's protocols and oversight.
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US Navy solicits bids to test autonomous VTUAV
The US Navy is soliciting bids for the Autonomous Aerial Cargo/Utility System (AACUS), an unmanned vertical-takeoff and landing (VTOL) programme designed...
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NewsLockheed reveals bold technology plans with 6th-gen fighter concept
Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works division has revealed a conceptual next-generation fighter design that offers the first hints of an ambitious, long-term technology...
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NewsBoeing to exit struggling Wichita cluster by 2014
Boeing today announced the closure of all defence and space operations in Wichita, Kansas, within two years, a decision instantly criticised by local politicans...
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NewsPoland disbands VIP transport unit
The Polish air force formally disbanded its VIP transport-dedicated 36th Special Transport Regiment on 3 January, in accordance with a decision taken by defence minister Tomasz Siemoniak after an investigation into an April 2010 accident.