Latest Defence Helicopters news – Page 180
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FARNBOROUGH: Raven selected for Gripen E
Selex ES’s Raven ES-05 active electronically scanned array radar has been selected to equip the next-generation Saab Gripen E combat aircraft.
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FARNBOROUGH: Textron’s big hopes for its small guided bomb
Textron Systems thinks big things can come in small packages and the company has used Farnborough to unveil its newest munition - a 27in (0.7m) precision-guided glide weapon called Fury.
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FARNBOROUGH: Airbus Helicopters picks Thales Scorpion
Airbus Helicopters has selected Thales’s Scorpion helmet-mounted sight and display system for integration into its future Helicopter Weapons System.
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FARNBOROUGH: Saab philosophical on Gripen's Swiss miss
Saab’s chief executive remains hopeful about future business opportunities in Switzerland despite the defeat of its planned deal to supply it with Gripen E fighter jets at a public referendum in May.
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FARNBOROUGH: Airbus Helicopters eyes UK MoD training requirement
Airbus Helicopters hopes to use its presence at Farnborough to advance its bid to replace the UK armed forces' fleet of 34 AS350 B3 Squirrel HT1 training helicopters.
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FARNBOROUGH: Raytheon confident in US shooter detection purchase
Raytheon is anticipating a decision from an undisclosed US customer “before the end of the year” on the full scale purchase of the airborne variant of its Boomerang shooter detection system.
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FARNBOROUGH: Russia's resurgent United Aircraft
For United Aircraft, Russia’s state-owned aerospace giant, the last 12 months appear to have been a period of consolidation and reinforcement. Its two flagship civil programmes have made solid if unspectacular progress, largely avoiding the calamities of previous years. And on the military side, deliveries of current models have continued ...
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Brazil's F-X2 supply chain takes shape
Six months after the announcement of the Gripen NG as the Brazilian Air Force´s (FAB) future fighter, the local supply chain is taking shape with the signing of updated and more detailed memoranda of understanding (MoUs).
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USAF launches competition for new bomber
The US Air Force has launched the competitive phase of the classified long range strike bomber by issuing a request for proposals, with Northrop Grumman and a Boeing/Lockheed Martin team poised to compete for a contract to develop and build 80-100 aircraft over the next two decades.
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FARNBOROUGH: Fighter manufacturers enter dogfight with F-35
With smaller, counter-insurgency types taking business and new types muscling in, Western fighter manufacturers have to fight harder than before to retain market share
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F-35 industry partners invest in cost saving plan
Three F-35 industry partners will invest $170 million over the next three years to lower the price of the $131 million fighter, the US Department of Defense announced today.
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Multiple birdstrike downed Pave Hawk, USAF concludes
A multiple birdstrike caused the 7 January fatal crash of a US Air Force Sikorsky HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter over the UK east coast, accident investigators have determined.
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Poland launches attack helicopter acquisition
Poland is continuing its plan to update its army's rotorcraft fleet with the launch of a procurement process covering the acquisition of as many as 40 attack helicopters.
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Israel receives first two Lavi trainers
Alenia Aermacchi on 9 July delivered the first two of 30 M-346 training jets to the Israeli Air Force.
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FARNBOROUGH: RAF prepares for new air transport era with A400M
The UK Royal Air Force’s first pair of Airbus A400M tactical transports are scheduled to be accepted just over two months from now, with the European type to provide a long-anticipated and much-needed replacement for its already-retired Lockheed Martin C-130Ks.
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FARNBOROUGH: Redesign transforms KC-390 into all-new market threat
Embraer’s original idea for a “C-390” airlifter once seemed as straightforward as the designation implies. Engineers could borrow the wing and engine of the proven, passenger-carrying E-190, and modify the cabin as a cargo hold with a rear ramp.
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New engines to transform Brazilian Lynx helicopters
AgustaWestland has won a contract worth more than $160 million to conduct a mid-life upgrade to eight Lynx 21A ship-based helicopters operated by the Brazilian navy.
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Boeing completes Canadian Chinook deliveries
Boeing has delivered its 15th and final CH-47F Chinook transport helicopter to the Royal Canadian Air Force.
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Embraer passes on finalising KC-390 deal at Farnborough
Embraer plans to finalise a contract in the third quarter with the Brazilian air force for 28 KC-390s, passing up an opportunity to stage the event at the Farnborough air show.
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Sierra Nevada fields ARGUS-IS upgrade to Gorgon Stare pod
The US Air Force is now operating a powerful airborne imagery sensor called the Gorgon Stare Increment 2 pod, allowing a single unmanned aircraft to monitor in high-resolution everything that moves over a 100km2 area for several hours at a time.