Helicopters – Page 90
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: Boeing invests to mitigate long-term disruptive threats
Despite sitting atop a duopoly enjoying the longest, uninterrupted run of annual growth in history, Airbus and Boeing executives seem gripped by a heightened sense of healthy paranoia these days.
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Indian air force test fires air-launched Brahmos missile
The Indian air force test-fired the Mach 2.8 Brahmos cruise missile from an aircraft for the first time on 22 November, moving the anti-ship and land attack capability a step closer to operational use.
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Facebook, Airbus team up on high-altitude UAVs
Facebook and Airbus have teamed up to lobby the International Telecommunication Union allocate more capacity on the spectrum of radio signals for high-altitude pseudo-satelliltes (HAPS) and work together on development.
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India shoots down Spike missile acquisition
India's defence ministry has scrapped a $500 million deal with Israeli guided weapons specialist Rafael, instead asking its Defence Research and Development Organisation to provide an indigenous alternative.
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: Key challenges in the race to develop hybrid-electric aircraft
US Air Force expectations that aircraft of the future will have vast hunger for electrical power are driving a wave of research
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Norway takes first SAR-roled AW101
Leonardo Helicopters has delivered the first of an eventual 16 search and rescue-configured AW101s to Norway.
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DUBAI: UMS Skeldar on the ascent
UMS Skeldar is celebrating a successful year, and gearing up for further sales next year of its V-200 and R-350 vertical take-off and landing unmanned systems.
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DUBAI: Airbus bares C295's teeth
Airbus Defence and Space is seeing strong interest from Middle East and North African nations for the heavily armed ISR/strike variant of its C295 tactical transport.
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DUBAI: RAF talks up Typhoon interoperability with F-35
As interest in fifth generation fighters builds in the UAE, a top Royal Air Force officer explained at the Dubai air show how the Eurofighter Typhoon is already demonstrating how a non-stealthy fighter can integrate with the Lockheed Martin F-35 in contested airspace.
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DUBAI: TAI targets global market with new attack helicopters, trainers
TAI’s chief executive expects at least eight different aircraft types will roll off its production line in the next five years, a move that could turn the Turkish aircraft manufacturer into an international player.
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Analysis
FLIGHT TEST: Embraer's KC-390 an airlift jet-setter
Test pilot Michael Gerzanics puts Embraer's KC-390 transport/tanker through its paces and asks: how does it fare against Lockheed Martin's long-established C-130 Hercules?
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DUBAI: Calidus’s homegrown attack on strike market
UAE-based aerospace company Calidus has revealed to the world its B-250 light strike aircraft at the Dubai air show.
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DUBAI: KC-46 trims major deficiencies to one
Boeing’s long-troubled KC-46A tanker development programme is nearing resolution, with only one outstanding deficiency expected to remain after this month, says the company’s top defence executive.
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DUBAI: Japan’s C-2 makes overseas debut in push for export sales
The Kawasaki Heavy Industries C-2 is making its debut outside of Japan at the air show, as the country pushes for export sales of the military transport.
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DUBAI: Grob’s eye in the sky debuts at Dubai
Grob Aircraft has brought its G520 high-altitude ISR aircraft to the Dubai air show for the first time, hoping to lure customers in the region for the specialised surveillance aircraft.
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DUBAI: Boeing looks for ways around supplier impasse for Saudi AH-6is
A bitter dispute with a key supplier will not prevent Boeing from completing deliveries of the long-delayed AH-6i scout helicopter to the Saudi Arabian National Guard (SANG) and try to sell the aircraft to new customers.
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DUBAI: 'Chaos president' expected to boost arms sales
When President Donald Trump visited Riyadh last spring, the kingdom greeted him not so much with sabre rattling as sabre dancing.
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DUBAI: Bell targets Middle East sales of AH-1Z
Bell Helicopter is confident that the Middle East can deliver a sales boost across its military product line, with a number of campaigns currently active.
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Top USN admiral warns Congress on aviation fleet
The US Navy’s commander of Naval Air Forces is sending a dire warning to Congress this week over the rampant cannibalisation of its fighter fleet could threaten the service’s ability to go to war.
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USAF puts comms gateway for F-22 and F-35 back on shopping list
A communications system that can translate messages between the US Air Force’s most advanced and oldest fighters is back on the service’s expedited shopping list, according to a recent acquisition notice.