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NewsSouth Korean navy requests Sikorsky MH-60S purchase
South Korea's government has requested the purchase of eight Sikorsky MH-60S Seahawk multi-mission helicopters worth up to $1 billion ...
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Learning curve issues bring A380 cost overruns
EADS admits that Airbus A380 production costs are "still higher than expected", while suffering a fall in earnings in the first half of 2009 and a large...
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Saudi Arabia doubles order for A330-based tankers
Riyadh has doubled its order for Airbus A330-based multi-role tanker transports to six aircraft for the Royal Saudi Air Force ...
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Australia signs deals for Orion upgrade and helicopter support
Australia has signed deals to upgrade its AP-3C Orion maritime patrol aircraft and support its AS350 training helicopters ...
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India seeks proposals for Tejas 2 fighter engine
India's Aeronautical Development Agency has issued requests for proposal to General Electric and the Eurojet consortium for a higher-thrust engine to power...
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Israel rejects assessment of unmanned helicopter systems
Israel's air force and navy are not evaluating the use of an unmanned rotorcraft from the latter's missile boats, and intend to continue operations with...
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NewsLockheed Martin debuts first F-35C for US Navy
The first carrier variant of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter has been rolled out at Lockheed's Fort Worth facility in Texas ...
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Israel to sign C-130J deal before year-end
Israel is expected to sign a contract by the end of this year for a new fleet of four Lockheed Martin C-130J tactical transports. The deal will also include...
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Northrop outlines UAV strategy for Asia, Middle East
Northrop Grumman is confident it can work around tight export controls on its unmanned air vehicle technology to exploit the burgeoning market for aerial...
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F-22: end of an era
Ten years after the network-centric warfare revolution and as the US Senate votes to stop F-22 production, has the case for increasingly complex and iconoclastic platforms been lost?
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NewsUS Senate axes F-35 alternate engine
US Senators today voted to freeze spending on the General Electric/Rolls-Royce F136, the second engine under development for the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) programme.
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NewsPICTURE: New Zealand's UH-1 'Hueys' in amphibious debut
The Royal New Zealand Air Force has for the first time deployed four of its Bell UH-1H 'Hueys' onto an amphibious vessel ...
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F-22 fight continues despite Senate vote
A backlash in the US Congress against the Obama administration's decision to end production of the Lockheed Martin F-22 will continue, despite a setback...
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NewsA400M partners head for latest crisis meeting
Defence ministers from Europe's seven A400M partner nations will meet in Nice on 24 July to agree the delayed programme's fate ...
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Dassault prepares for lay-offs as business jet market collapses
Dassault will begin furloughing workers at its French factories in September as it grapples with a collapse in demand for business jets that has left it...
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Fly-by-wire failure downed Indian Su-30MKI
Preliminary investigations into the crash of an Indian air force Sukhoi Su-30MKI fighter earlier this year indicate that the cause "is likely failure of...
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UK approves Puma upgrade as helicopter debate rages on
The UK Ministry of Defence is to approve a major life-extension programme for the Royal Air Force's Eurocopter Puma HC1 transports, as national debate continues...
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NewsRAF, Luftwaffe chiefs back new technology for Tranche 3 Eurofighter
Air force chiefs from Germany and the UK say active-array radars should equip their future examples of the Eurofighter strike aircraft ...
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Japan and Lockheed mull F-35 assembly plant
Lockheed Martin executives have held initial discussions with Japanese government and defence ministry officials about building an in-country final assembly...