All Helicopters articles – Page 444

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    Perfect partner?

    1999-04-21T00:00:00Z

    CASA's Alberto Fernandez has steered the Spanish manufacturer in a clear strategic direction, creating 'a lovely bride' for European manufacturers courting it Julian Moxon/MADRIDFor a 75-year-old national aerospace company on the verge of being sold to one of four European suitors, it would seem reasonable to assume that the atmosphere ...

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    New from old

    1999-04-21T00:00:00Z

    PaulLewis/WASHINGTON DC The remanufacturing of military helicopters is not a new business. For the US aerospace industry it is set to become a proportionally more important source of rotary-wing revenue over the next 10 years. There are around 6,500 helicopters in the US military inventory, significantly down from the Vietnam ...

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    Israel's Elta develops miniature synthetic aperture radar pod

    1999-04-21T00:00:00Z

    Arie Egozi/TEL AVIV Israeli electronics manufacturer Elta has developed and begun manufacture of the first podded synthetic-aperture radar (SAR)system that can be carried on fighter-sized aircraft as small as the Lockheed Martin F-16. Lockheed Martin's tactical aircraft division will work with Elta to market the radar. The EL/M-2060P ...

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    Civilian casualties rise as air attacks intensify

    1999-04-21T00:00:00Z

    NATO aircraft and missiles attacking targets in Yugoslavia caused significant collateral damage to civilian targets for the first time last week, as hundreds more aircraft were sent from the USA to Europe to join the campaign. The heaviest raids yet were mounted against Serbian capital Belgrade and several other cities ...

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    Staying one step ahead

    1999-04-21T00:00:00Z

    Paul Lewis/STRATFORD, CONNECTICUT Sikorsky has adopted a three-step strategy to keep it at the forefront of the world's helicopter industry. Its immediate goal is to sustain output through US domestic UH-60/CH-60 and international S-70 sales, while continuing to press ahead in the long term with the RAH-66 Comanche. It hopes ...

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    Lockheed Martin favours German cannon for JSF

    1999-04-14T00:00:00Z

    Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC Lockheed Martin, which is competing against Boeing for the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), has baselined Germany's Mauser 27mm cannon for its bid, but is also considering the General Dynamics GAU-12 25mm three-barrel Gatling gun, with either weapon to be mounted in the aircraft's weapons bay. ...

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    Kosovo air campaign intensifies

    1999-04-14T00:00:00Z

    Howard Gethin/RAF MILDENHALL NATO has sharply stepped up its air campaign against Yugoslavia, with over 80 separate targets attacked in the four days from 3 April, of 190 made since the outbreak of hostilities. NATO aircraft flew 438 sorties against 28 targets on 5 April alone. "We've increased the ...

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    Four companies to battle for Spanish aero manufacturer

    1999-04-14T00:00:00Z

    Julian Moxon/MADRID British Aerospace, Aerospatiale of France, Italy's Alenia and DaimlerChrysler Aerospace of Germany are all candidates for the purchase of up to 100% of CASA from Spanish holding company SEPI, the aero-structures manufacturer has revealed. CASA chairman Alberto Fernandez tells Flight International "...there is no particular scheme for ...

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    US Marine Corps tests modified V-22 flight control system

    1999-04-14T00:00:00Z

    The US Marine Corps plans to begin test flying a Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey equipped with modified flight control software, designed to rectify lateral control problems discovered during recent sea trials. The Corps claims that a software fix is in hand for the tiltrotor's automatic jettison system. Programme engineers are ...

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    Conflict of cost

    1999-04-07T00:00:00Z

    With air superiority at the heart of NATO's current - and future - military doctrine, the cost debate over the alliance's next generation strike fighter has become critical to say the least. The issue becomes all the more poignant as the world watches some of the most advanced air ...

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    NATO reacts to surveillance challenge

    1999-04-07T00:00:00Z

    Tim Ripley and DeeDeeDoke/LONDON Allied commanders are calling in additional surveillance assets to improve their coverage of Yugoslavia in an effort to combat intensifying Yugoslav military action in Kosovo. US Air Force General Atomics RQ-1A Predators and US Army TRW Hunter unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) - the latter on their ...

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    Turbofan chosen for unmanned air vehicle

    1999-04-07T00:00:00Z

    AlliedSignal's F124turbofan will power Boeing's unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV), which is to be flight tested under a US Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency technology demonstration contract (Flight International, 31 March-6 April). The unreheated turbofan was chosen over the Rolls-Royce Turboméca Adour to power the UCAV. The F124 is ...

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    Proposals requested for F/A-18E/F active array

    1999-04-07T00:00:00Z

    Boeing has issued a draft request for proposals for an active-array radar for the F/A-18E/FSuper Hornet. It is awaiting the US Navy's go-ahead to launch a competition between Raytheon and Northrop Grumman to develop the active electronically scanned array (AESA). A winner is expected to be named in the fourth ...

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    Making the transition

    1999-03-31T00:00:00Z

    Eclipsed by the primes, Canada's second and third tiers contain world-class players Canada's diminishing defence spending has forced fundamental changes on to its aviation industry. Many companies, subsidiaries of US primes established to provide industrial offsets for Canada's past military purchases, have had to find a new raison d'etre. ...

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    USAF study faults weapon performance in Bosnia as NATO starts Serb campaign

    1999-03-31T00:00:00Z

    Tim Ripley/LONDON With NATO airpower striking at Yugoslavia, details have emerged of the performance of US "smart" weapons used during the organisation's last Balkan air offensive in 1995. The USAF's Balkan Air Campaign Study, which remains unpublished, even though it is available through the Freedom of Information Act, says ...

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    NATO air armada begins wave of attacks on Serbian targets

    1999-03-31T00:00:00Z

    Howard Gethin/LONDON Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC Aircraft from 13 NATO nations began an air and missile bombardment of Yugoslav military targets on the night of 24/25 March in response to the failure of the Yugoslav Government to sign up to peace talks over the disputed Kosovo region of Serbia. The ...

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    Bomber roadshow

    1999-03-24T12:07:00Z

    Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC The USAF is pushing its bombers to the forefront of the expeditionary air force concept. But how long can they last? Deployment side by side of Northrop Grumman B-2s and Boeing B-52s is set to become commonplace as the US Air Force seeks to ...

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    Northrop offers partnership in pitch for Wedgetail

    1999-03-24T00:00:00Z

    Northrop Grumman plans to create an Australian subsidiary, which will be known as Hawkeye Mission Systems Australia. The new company would form part of its joint bid with Lockheed Martin for the Royal Australian Air Force's Project Wedgetail airborne early warning and control requirement. The new subsidiary would ...

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    Australia draws up shortlist for scout helicopter competition

    1999-03-24T00:00:00Z

    The Australian Department of Defence is expected to release a shortlist for its armed reconnaissance helicopter project by the end of this month. Industry sources are widely tipping the Agusta Scorpion variant of the A129 (above), Eurocopter's Tiger and the Boeing AH-64 Apache as the final contenders. The project is ...

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    Delays hit Nimrod 2000 update

    1999-03-24T00:00:00Z

    Howard Gethin/LONDON Serious delays to the £2.4 billion ($3.9 billion) programme to update 21 British Aerospace Nimrod maritime patrol aircraft to MRA4 standard for the Royal Air Force have pushed back the aircraft's in-service date until at least 2005. Compensation payments are being negotiated by the Ministry of ...