Kaman, more than halved its losses in 1994, to the end the year, with a $13.2 million deficit. Sales also edged up to $820 million, helped by the group's diversification into non-defence industrial-technology markets. Founding chairman Charles Kaman welcomes the Pentagon's initiative in urging the US forces to use commercially developed products, pointing to potential military orders for the new K-MAX.
Source: Flight International
While Turkey will still move forward with the purchase of 40 new F-16V fighter jets from Lockheed Martin, Ankara has decided to scrap a planned acquisition of 79 Block 70 upgrade kits for its existing F-16 fleet, opting instead to contract with domestic Turkish Aerospace for the modernisations.
The Next Generation Intra-theater Airlift programme aims to enhance the air force’s existing airlift capability with a regional logistics aircraft able to operate without ground infrastructure like a maintained runway.
A Boeing P-8A maritime patrol jet from the US Navy overflew the Taiwan Strait separating the island from mainland China, a waterway over which Beijing claims jurisdiction but Washington views as international water.
