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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 ...