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IAI considers joint AEW bid for Australia and South Korea
Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) is considering tendering for South Korea's pending airborne early-warning (AEW) competition offering an Elta Phalcon phased-array radar version of the Airbus Industrie A310, as well as the Boeing 767. IAI has already teamed with Raytheon E-Systems to offer an Elta radar-equipped A310 for Australia's ...
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Searching abroad
In November 1996 Elbit, one of Israel's major manufacturers of electronic systems, was separated into three independent companies. Defence operations were transferred to a new company, Elbit Systems (ESL), the operations of which include the development and manufacture of defence systems, and the performance of upgrade programmes. ESL ...
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Changing the guard
Taiwan's Aerospace Industrial Development Corporation (AIDC), once assured of a steady income from the country's defence ministry, is struggling to become a private corporation by the end of 1999. Its survival is at stake. Government funding for the AIDC-built Indigenous Defence Fighter (IDF) will dry up by the ...
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Lockheed Martin eyes joined-wing tanker/transport model
LOCKHEED MARTIN plans to fly a small-scale radio-controlled model of a joined-wing design being considered for its proposed New Strategic Aircraft (NSA). The NSA is being studied as a private-venture replacement for US Air Force Boeing KC-135 tankers and Lockheed C-141 transports, to enter service early next century. ...
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Jordan receives C-130H
Jordan has taken delivery of a Lockheed Martin C-130H from the US Government, the latest part of a military-aid package donated by Washington to boost the Arab nation's defence forces. Jordan now has five C-130s and is hoping for more, according to its air force chief-of-staff Maj Gen Mohammad Ababneh. ...
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Pentagon to hold talks with Europe on UAVs
The US Department of Defense (DoD) is to hold talks in April with France, Germany and the UK over possible involvement in the next phases of the high-altitude-endurance unmanned air vehicle (HAE UAV) and other programmes now being pursued under its new advanced-concept-technology demonstration (ACTD) initiative. Paul Kaminski, ...
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RAAF seeks initial funding for 707 tanker upgrade
The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) is hoping to secure initial funding in financial year 1998/9 to replace or upgrade its fleet of Boeing 707-300 tankers. According to local defence sources, Australia wants to advance its tanker replacement into the next five-year procurement cycle, because of rising concern ...
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Australia starts AEW&C evaluation programme
Australia has embarked on a 30-month programme to evaluate and select an airborne early-warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft, following the submission of preliminary tenders by three competing consortia led by Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Raytheon E-Systems. The Royal Australian Air Force's (RAAF) Project Wedgetail calls for initial design-activity ...
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RAF Nimrod facelift begins
The Royal Air Force has begun to ship the first of its British Aerospace Nimrod MR2s from Kinloss in Scotland to FR Aviation in Bournemouth, southern England, for refurbishment as part of its Replacement Maritime Patrol Aircraft programme. Three aircraft, held in storage, were stripped to the fuselage and flown ...
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Congress budget watchdog doubts whether USA can afford new fighters
THE US Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has warned that the Department of Defense cannot afford the planned number of McDonnell Douglas F-18E/Fs, Lockheed Martin/ Boeing F-22s and Joint Strike Fighters (JSFs) without doubling the proportion of its budget which is traditionally spent on new tactical aircraft. The CBO ...
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Omega Air to launch 707 re-engineing with JT8Ds
Omega Air has signed an agreement with Pratt & Whitney about the re-engineing of its Boeing 707-320 fleet with P&W JT8D-200 engines. The Omega leasing company is the major partner in the US-based consortium "7Q7", which plans to certificate the JT8D-powered version in 1998. Omega, based in Dublin, ...
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Evergreen picks up USN demonstration
The US Navy's Military Sealift Command (MSC) has selected operator Evergreen Helicopters, rather than Kaman Aerospace, for further civil-helicopter demonstrations of commercially operated vertical replenishment (VERTREP) of warships. Kaman's K-MAX was used successfully to demonstrate the concept over the past two years, but the MSC says that it ...
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BAe is poised to make decision on JSF partner
British Aerospace, a loser in the initial Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) shortlist, will decide shortly whether to join forces with Boeing or Lockheed Martin, the US aerospace firms selected by the Pentagon to continue development of the next-generation tactical aircraft. BAe had been teamed with McDonnell Douglas (MDC) ...
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US Army signs T800 deal for UH-1 Hueys
The US Army has agreed to re-engine 131 Air National Guard Bell UH-1 Hueys with the Allison-AlliedSignal LHTEC T800 turboshaft as part of a deal to provide production and in-service evaluation of the engine before it is needed for the Boeing/Sikorsky RAH-66 Comanche. The early production and fielding ...
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AWACS 767 tests are completed early
Boeing has completed flight-testing of the first 767 Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft three weeks ahead of schedule, logging 130 flights and 383 flight hours. The aircraft is now undergoing an instrument refurbishment in Seattle, before it is flown to Wichita, Kansas, where flight-test equipment will be removed. ...
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E-6B Milstar fatigue tests begin
A modified Boeing 707 fuselage section is being tested to verify structural changes planned for the US Navy E-6B airborne command post fleet as part of its recently expanded mission role. The E-6B fleet will be modified to take a large, roof-mounted antenna radome as part of the Milstar programme. ...
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Raytheon E-Systems picks A310 for Australian AEWcompetition
Raytheon E-Systems will offer the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) four modified Airbus Industrie A310s to meet the RAAF's airborne early warning and Control (AEW&C) System requirement, "Project Wedgetail". The four A310s are being provided by Airbus Industrie, the aircraft are likely to be second hand aircraft held ...
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Moving on up
The word "rebuilding" is likely to crop up frequently in conversations at the Helicopter Association International's Heli-Expo '97 (2-4 February, Anaheim, California). Manufacturers will be talking about rebuilding business post-recession, while the HAI itself will be addressing the problem of "phoenix", or rebuilt, aircraft. According to HAI president ...
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SEP rockets into Snecma
Snecma has completed the takeover of rocket engine and advanced materials venture Société Européen de Propulsion (SEP), which now becomes a wholly owned group subsidiary. SEP, in turn, will take over Snecma's brakes subsidiary, Messier-Bugatti, to create what is claimed will be Europe's largest aviation and automobile braking company. ...
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Special Osprey
Bell Boeing has been awarded a $490 million contract to begin engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) of the CV-22 special-operations variant of the Osprey military tilt-rotor. The contract calls for the joint venture to design, integrate and install special-operations-unique systems, including terrain-following/terrain-avoidance radar, and additional fuel tanks, in the baseline ...