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British Aerospace
SEA HARRIER FRS.1 & F/A2 BAe has converted the Royal Navy's 31 FRS1 Sea Harriers to FA2 standard under a ú170 million mid-life-update contract awarded in December 1988. Eighteen new-build FA2s have also been ordered. The aircraft has the capability to engage low-flying targets beyond visual range, ...
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CASA
C.101 AVIOJET A C.101CC light-attack version of the Aviojet jet trainer has been sold to Jordan and assembled under licence in Chile (as the A-36 Halcon) by ENAER. The C.101CC has an uprated, 20kN, AlliedSignal Garrett TFE731-5 turbofan. Weapons include under-fuselage 30mm-cannon pods, underwing rockets and gun pods, ...
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Israel Aircraft Industries
KFIR IAI completed an upgrade package for the Kfir in 1993, based on the cancelled Lavi fighter's avionics. It completed delivery of six aircraft to Sri Lanka in January 1996. The Philippines and Slovenia also remain potential customers for ex-Israeli air force aircraft, with Ecuador interested in procuring ...
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Lockheed Martin Aeronautical Systems
C-5 GALAXY An improved, version of the Galaxy, the C-5D was proposed by Lockheed Martin as an alternative to the MDC C-17, under the USAF's Non-Development Airlift Aircraft (NDAA) programme. The C-5D would have new turbofans - GE CF6-80C2s and a two-crew cockpit based on that under development ...
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Northrop Grumman
A-6 INTRUDER The A-6E carrier-borne attack aircraft is being withdrawn from service. A limited upgrade of USN A-6Es added missile-approach warning, towed active decoys, satellite navigation and other improvements. Boeing-built composite wings were retrofitted to 172 A-6s. The last new A-6E was delivered in February 1992. ...
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Racal-Thorn wins Sea King AEW upgrade
THE UK Ministry of Defence has selected Racal-Thorn Defence to act as prime contractor for the radar and mission-system upgrade (MSU) on the Royal Navy's fleet of Sea King AEW Mk.2A airborne-early-warning (AEW) helicopters. At the heart of the upgrade is the company's Searchwater 2000 radar, already selected ...
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Elta and Raytheon team for RAAF AEW bid
Paul Phelan/CAIRNS ISRAEL'S ELTA is to team with Raytheon E-Systems to offer a derivative of its Phalcon airborne-early-warning (AEW) system to the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), with the preferred aircraft believed to be an Airbus. The Australian Government selected four US contractors: Boeing, Lockheed Martin, ...
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Smiths waits a year for delivery upturn
THE FULL IMPACT of the upturn in civil and military aerospace markets will take another year to feed through to the bottom line, forecasts Smiths Industries, as it turns in another steady set of annual results. The aerospace business saw sales edge up a little, to ú377 million ...
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High-profile Hercules
A multi-national C-130 squadron has been supporting NATO in Bosnia for almost a year. Tim Ripley/RIMINI NORWEGIAN AIR FORCE Col Lasse Hobber, commander of NATO's multi-national Lockheed-Martin C-130 Hercules squadron in Bosnia, says: "When our capability became known around the theatre, we started to be asked ...
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SAS to begin using ADS-B system in 1997
Scandinavian carrier SAS is to equip "at least" ten commercial aircraft, and ground vehicles, with automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) systems in 1997, and plans to equip its new Boeing 737-600s in 1998. The trials are part of the European-Commission-funded North European ADS-B Network programme, which has established a ...
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General Electric Aircraft Engines
General Electric Aircraft Engines (GE) received 180min extended-range twinjet operations (ETOPS) clearance for its GE90 turbofan, early in October. It is one of three power plants offered for the Boeing 777. US Federal Aviation Administration approval followed the delayed completion of 1,000-cycle testing in July. British Airways plans to begin ...
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Lockheed Martin details advanced design studies
Graham Warwick/MARIETTA LOCKHEED MARTIN is nearing completion of a study into upgrading the US Air Force's C-5A/B Galaxy transports, and believes that there is "significant interest" in proceeding with the programme. The company has also revealed details of the New Strategic Aircraft (NSA) it is studying to replace ...
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E-8 JSTARS needs improvement, say USAF evaluators
Northrop Grumman's E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS) requires "significant improvements" to meet its performance requirements, says a US Air Force test report. The US Department of Defense (DoD) has approved production of 19 JSTARS aircraft despite an operational-evaluation report, which is critical of the system's capability (Flight ...
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V-22 team proposes rate increase
The Bell Boeing joint venture has proposed to the US Department of Defense that it could save $9 billion over the life of the V-22 Osprey programme if it were allowed to accelerate production of the tilt-rotor aircraft. At present, the joint venture will deliver 425 MV-22Bs to ...
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Israel nears Candid AEW resolution
Russia and Israel appear to be nearing an agreement over the sale of an Ilyushin -Il-76 Candid airframe to Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) for conversion to an airborne-early-warning aircraft for China. The IAI proposal has been stalled by its inability to secure the Il-76 airframe for conversion. ...
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Boeing targets 1998 for Eagle test flight
BOEING WILL test fly a fuselage-mounted infra-red search and track (IRST) system on board an E-3 Airborne Warning and Control System aircraft in the third quarter of 1998. The IRST and laser ranger package, called the Eagle, will be used to look at the feasibility of employing the ...
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Military coup
Reflectone has received a five-year, $5 million (£3.5 million) US Navy contract, to operate and maintain Boeing CH-46 and Sikorsky CH-53 helicopter simulators, at three Marine Corps bases and a five-year $2 million US Air Force contract, to continue providing academic and simulator training for Grumman EF-111 crews, at Cannon ...
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Improved VLF
Rockwell has won a $38 million development contract to modify miniature receive terminals (MRTs) and secure communications systems which are used on US Air Force Boeing E-4B and US Navy E-6B airborne command aircraft. The MRTs will provide them with an enhanced high-data rate very-low-frequency (VLF) mode and a supportable ...
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AlliedSignal wins USAF GPS order
ALLIEDSIGNAL Avionics has been awarded a $2 million contract to supply the US Air Force with 1,685 global-positioning system (GPS) receivers. The equipment, an AlliedSignal Aerospace hand-held KLX 100 GPS receiver and a moving-map display will be used on USAF transports. The company must provide the equipment by ...