All Helicopters articles – Page 467
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USNavy may advance Common Support Aircraft programme
THEUSNAVY is evaluating industry responses to a request for information on whether a new Common Support Aircraft (CSA) could be developed with the funds it would otherwise spend extending the service lives of the Northrop Grumman E-2 and Lockheed S-3. Industry was asked what type of aircraft could ...
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Indonesia turns to MiG-29 as F-16 delay continues
The Indonesian military is beginning to show interest in the MAPO-MiG Mikoyan MiG-29 Fulcrum, in the wake of its continued failure to obtain an additional batch of nine Lockheed Martin F-16A/Bs from the USA. According to local sources, Indonesian officials have begun obtaining initial information on the Russian ...
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US Air Force considers broad re-engineing
BOEING AND ROLLS-Royce/Allison Engine could win a major US Air Force contract to re-engine not only the Boeing B-52H bomber, but other aircraft derived from the Boeing 707. A final decision on whether to re-engine the B-52H fleet is pending as a Congressional committee looking at the issue ...
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C-17 is capable of all envisaged roles
Sir - We agree with Comment "Strategic retreat" (Flight International, 12-18 February, P3), which says that the US armed forces must replace the Lockheed C-141 in the early 2000s. That replacement, the McDonnell Douglas C-17 Globemaster III, already exists. We recently delivered aircraft No 30 to the Air ...
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Embraer commits to Erieye for EMB-145
Ericsson Microwave Systems of Sweden has signed a $145 million deal with Embraer to supply five Erieye airborne-early-warning (AEW) and control systems for installation on the Brazilian aircraft builder's EMB-145 regional jet. The aircraft is part of the equipment for a wider surveillance scheme being managed for the Brazilian Government ...
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US Army plans for critical ASAT test
THE US ARMY and prime contractor Boeing North American plan to test in April a critical component of a weapon which has been designed to knock out low-altitude surveillance and communications satellites. The kinetic-kill vehicle (KKV), the key subsystem of the anti-satellite (ASAT) weapon, will use electro-optical (EO) ...
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BAe/Westland study AEW needs-
British Aerospace is proposing an aircraft wingtip-mounted synthetic-aperture radar to meet the Royal Navy's Future Organic Airborne-Early-Warning (FOAEW) requirement, while GKNWestland is looking at a compound-lift variant of the Westland/Agusta EH101 Merlin as an AEW platform for the RN's proposed future carrier. BAe has carried out windtunnel tests ...
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US Army prepares for ASAT testing
THE US ARMY has awarded Boeing North American additional funding to build subsystems for a weapon able to knock out enemy reconnaissance and communications satellites. The $35 million, added to a $44 million deal won by Boeing's newly acquired Rocketdyne division, covers development of an operational weapons-control subsystem ...
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IAI considers joint AEW bid for Australia and South Korea
Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) is considering tendering for South Korea's pending airborne early-warning (AEW) competition offering an Elta Phalcon phased-array radar version of the Airbus Industrie A310, as well as the Boeing 767. IAI has already teamed with Raytheon E-Systems to offer an Elta radar-equipped A310 for Australia's ...
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Searching abroad
In November 1996 Elbit, one of Israel's major manufacturers of electronic systems, was separated into three independent companies. Defence operations were transferred to a new company, Elbit Systems (ESL), the operations of which include the development and manufacture of defence systems, and the performance of upgrade programmes. ESL ...
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Lockheed Martin eyes joined-wing tanker/transport model
LOCKHEED MARTIN plans to fly a small-scale radio-controlled model of a joined-wing design being considered for its proposed New Strategic Aircraft (NSA). The NSA is being studied as a private-venture replacement for US Air Force Boeing KC-135 tankers and Lockheed C-141 transports, to enter service early next century. ...
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Changing the guard
Taiwan's Aerospace Industrial Development Corporation (AIDC), once assured of a steady income from the country's defence ministry, is struggling to become a private corporation by the end of 1999. Its survival is at stake. Government funding for the AIDC-built Indigenous Defence Fighter (IDF) will dry up by the ...
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Jordan receives C-130H
Jordan has taken delivery of a Lockheed Martin C-130H from the US Government, the latest part of a military-aid package donated by Washington to boost the Arab nation's defence forces. Jordan now has five C-130s and is hoping for more, according to its air force chief-of-staff Maj Gen Mohammad Ababneh. ...
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Pentagon to hold talks with Europe on UAVs
The US Department of Defense (DoD) is to hold talks in April with France, Germany and the UK over possible involvement in the next phases of the high-altitude-endurance unmanned air vehicle (HAE UAV) and other programmes now being pursued under its new advanced-concept-technology demonstration (ACTD) initiative. Paul Kaminski, ...
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RAF Nimrod facelift begins
The Royal Air Force has begun to ship the first of its British Aerospace Nimrod MR2s from Kinloss in Scotland to FR Aviation in Bournemouth, southern England, for refurbishment as part of its Replacement Maritime Patrol Aircraft programme. Three aircraft, held in storage, were stripped to the fuselage and flown ...
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Australia starts AEW&C evaluation programme
Australia has embarked on a 30-month programme to evaluate and select an airborne early-warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft, following the submission of preliminary tenders by three competing consortia led by Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Raytheon E-Systems. The Royal Australian Air Force's (RAAF) Project Wedgetail calls for initial design-activity ...
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RAAF seeks initial funding for 707 tanker upgrade
The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) is hoping to secure initial funding in financial year 1998/9 to replace or upgrade its fleet of Boeing 707-300 tankers. According to local defence sources, Australia wants to advance its tanker replacement into the next five-year procurement cycle, because of rising concern ...
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Evergreen picks up USN demonstration
The US Navy's Military Sealift Command (MSC) has selected operator Evergreen Helicopters, rather than Kaman Aerospace, for further civil-helicopter demonstrations of commercially operated vertical replenishment (VERTREP) of warships. Kaman's K-MAX was used successfully to demonstrate the concept over the past two years, but the MSC says that it ...
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Congress budget watchdog doubts whether USA can afford new fighters
THE US Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has warned that the Department of Defense cannot afford the planned number of McDonnell Douglas F-18E/Fs, Lockheed Martin/ Boeing F-22s and Joint Strike Fighters (JSFs) without doubling the proportion of its budget which is traditionally spent on new tactical aircraft. The CBO ...