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PW4000 for USAF Bid
Boeing has selected the Pratt & Whitney PW4000 engine to power military versions of the 747-400F being proposed in the company's bid for the US Air Force's Non-Developmental Airlift Aircraft (NDAA) programme. The NDAA is a wide-body commercial or military aircraft, which will augment the Lockheed C-141 fleet and provide ...
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Boeing plans 767 tanker for Japanese requirement
BOEING HAS announced formally its intention to develop a combined military tanker/transport derivative of its 767, with the aim of securing a launch order from the Japan Air Self-Defence Force (JASDF). It is offering two versions of the Tanker/Tanker Multi-Mission aircraft, based on the 767-200ER and stretched ...
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Looking at the thinking cockpit
How intelligent is the combat cockpit going to become? Douglas Barrie/LONDON Julian Moxon/PARIS Graham Warwick/ATLANTA A late 1980s' slice of Hollywood Cold War melodrama (Firefox) had film star Clint Eastwood stealing the Soviet Union's next-generation combat aircraft. In the ensuing chase, Eastwood has to ...
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US military spending continues to decline
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC US DEFENCE procurement expenditure will fall to its lowest level since 1950 in fiscal year 1996. Procurement should begin a slow rebound in 1997, however, if Congress passes the Clinton plan. The Administration's request for $246 billion for the Department of Defense (DoD) ...
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Boeing/Lockheed consider JAST link
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES BOEING AND LOCKHEED are discussing teaming on the US Joint Advanced Strike Technology (JAST) programme, despite developing radically different solutions to the short take-off and vertical landing (STOVL) requirement which makes up part of the effort. Boeing is studying a direct-lift design, while ...
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UAE weighs up its counter to Kilos
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE THE UNITED ARAB Emirates (UAE) has modified the mission requirement for its planned fleet of maritime-patrol aircraft to include an anti-submarine warfare (ASW) capability. Competing manufacturers were briefed to supply four aircraft configured primarily for anti-surface-vessel (ASV) strike, armed with McDonnell Douglas AGM-84 Harpoon ...
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MDHS to offer EH101 to US Navy
McDONNELL DOUGLAS plans to offer the EH Industries EH101 to meet a US Navy requirement for a fleet-support helicopter. Other likely competitors include Sikorsky, with a cargo version of the Navy's SH-60 Seahawk anti-submarine helicopter, and possibly Kaman, with a military derivative of the K-MAX external-lift helicopter. McDonnell ...
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All change in Japan
Japan is facing up to a major transformation in its aerospace industry. Paul Lewis/TOKYO Japanese defence spending over the last 40 years has been largely responsible for sustaining a small, but highly capable, local aircraft industry. This will change as a post-Cold War reduction in military spending has ...
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All change in Japan
Japan is facing up to a major transformation in its aerospace industry. Paul Lewis/TOKYO Japanese defence spending over the last 40 years has been largely responsible for sustaining a small, but highly capable, local aircraft industry. This will change as a post-Cold War reduction in military spending ...
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UAE weighs up its counter to Kilos
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE THE UNITED ARAB Emirates (UAE), has modified the mission requirement for its planned fleet of maritime-patrol aircraft, to include, an anti-submarine warfare (ASW) capability. Competing manufacturers were briefed to supply four aircraft configured primarily for anti-surface-vessel (ASV) strike, armed with McDonnell Douglas AGM-84 ...
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MDHS to offer EH101 to US Navy
McDONNELL DOUGLAS plans to offer the EH Industries EH101 to meet a US Navy requirement for a fleet-support helicopter. Other likely competitors include Sikorsky, with a cargo version of the Navy's SH-60 Seahawk anti-submarine helicopter, and possibly Kaman, with a military derivative of the K-MAX external-lift helicopter. McDonnell ...
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Croatia's cocked hammer
Despite sanctions, Croatia has been able to build up its air force. Andrzej Jeziorski/ZAGREB Croatian air force Col. Mladen Vaselic clearly remembers the moment when he realised that he would soon be a deadly enemy of many of his former academy colleagues. It ...
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Funding threat to France's FLA plans
FRENCH AIR FORCE chief Gen. Jean-Philippe Douin has warned that France may have to purchase the Lockheed C-130J and ditch the acquisition of the European Future Large Aircraft (FLA) unless his budget gets a major boost. Douin is concerned about whether the Government will have funding available ...
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Croats thwart UN arms ban in building air force
Andrzej Jeziorski/ZAGREB CROATIA HAS succeeded in buying a force of Mil Mi-24V Hind helicopter gunships, despite the continuing UN arms embargo on the former Yugoslav republic. Military officials say that the gunships, which came into Croatian service last year, have been bought only for casualty evacuation, ...
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UK may cancel Phoenix UAV
Douglas Barrie and Simon Elliott/LONDON THE BRITISH ARMY is considering the cancellation of a key unmanned-air-vehicle (UAV) programme which is six years behind schedule and has cost the Ministry of Defence (MoD) £227 million. Project costs have more than doubled, compared with the original estimates when the deal ...
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Kawasaki presses JDA for transport-launch cash
Paul Lewis/TOKYO KAWASAKI HEAVY Industries (KHI) is pressing the Japan Defence Agency (JDA) to fund the development of the proposed indigenous C-X transport aircraft as a replacement for its C-1A. The Japan Air Self-Defence Force (JASDF) has a requirement for a new, long-range, medium-size, military transport ...
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Practical fudging
The UK Government's decision late in 1994 both to buy Lockheed C-130Js for the Royal Air Force and to opt back into supporting the European Future Large Aircraft (FLA programme) might look like a typically British fudge. Surprisingly, in view of the UK's long record of fudge making, however, it ...
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Osprey design review completed
THE BELL BOEING V-22 design has been frozen following completion of its critical design review (CDR). Programme director Stuart Dodge says that completion of the CDR and the Pentagon's endorsement of Osprey production clears the way to begin low-rate initial production (LRIP) and initial entry into service of the V-22 ...