CAE Electronics has won a C$30 million ($22 million) UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) contract to supply a Westland Lynx HAS.8 full-flight and tactical simulator for delivery to the Royal Navy by late 1997. The Canadian company says that it plans to bid for the forthcoming Royal Air Force programme to provide a medium-support-helicopter training centre equipped with five simulators.
Source: Flight International
Italy has followed fellow Eurofighter partner nation Spain and placed a long-trailed follow-on order for up to 24 examples of the multirole jet. Disclosed on 23 December, the order, placed via the NATO Eurofighter and Tornado Management Agency, will see the new fighters replace the Italian air force’s current Tranche ...
Two US naval aviators safely ejected from their Boeing F/A-18F over the Red Sea after the jet was mistakenly targeted by one of the guided missile ships escorting the aircraft carrier USS Harry S Truman.
Sweden’s Defence Materiel Administration has awarded Saab a SKr466 million ($42 million) contract to support further development of the nation’s Gripen C/D fighter fleet.
