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Military Aircraft Directory: IAI
Manufacturer Max TD Max TR WS FL Max RF Max Kts/Mach H Max OC Max WLE E CR Max PNR Phalcon 707 AEW Special mission - ...
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Military Aircraft Directory: Mitsubishi
MITSUBISHI Manufacturer PWR Max TD Max TR WS FL Max Kts/Mach C F-2 Fighter/attack 76.5kN 129.1kN 11.1 15.5 M 2.0 1 ...
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VTOL UAV demonstration enters next phase
The US Department of Defense's vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) unmanned air vehicle (UAV) demonstration has entered its next phase with the exercising of contract options with Bell Helicopter Textron and Bombardier. Three months of VTOL UAV trials, which involved Bell's Eagle Eye, Bombardier's CL-327 Guardian and the Science Applications ...
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Missile conversion
Tim Furniss/LONDON A former Minuteman II missile refurbished by Orbital Sciences (OSC) will be launched from California Spaceport at Vandenberg AFB in late 1999, carrying an experimental satellite. The Joint Air Force/Weber Satellite (Jawsat), developed by students from the US Air Force Academy and Utah's State University. California ...
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US military eyes ground-launched AMRAAM
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC The US Marine Corps and the US Army may join Norway in deploying a ground-based air-defence weapon incorporating the Raytheon Systems advanced medium-range air-to-air missile (AMRAAM). The so-called HUMRAAM air-defence system is mounted on the high-mobility, multi-purpose, wheeled vehicle in a similar set-up to that ...
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General Atomics plans Altus move to Dryden
General Atomics' Altus remotely piloted vehicle (RPV) is expected to move to NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center in California by early August to begin a month-long flight test programme. The Altus, a derivative of the company's Predator military UAV, has been developed to demonstrate technologies for NASA's environmental research ...
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Outrider procurement decision draws closer
Alliant Techsystems has completed a military user assessment and the advanced concept technology demonstration (ACTD) of the Outrider tactical unmanned air vehicle (TUAV), leaving the future of the joint US military project in the hands of the US Department of Defense. The US Navy and Marine Corps are expected ...
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DARPA awards communications contracts
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded multiple contracts for design, development and demonstration of an advanced airborne battlefield communications network. Raytheon Systems, TRW and Sanders, a unit of Lockheed Martin, have each won $1 million contracts to begin work on the so-called Airborne Communications Node (ACN) ...
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DarkStar returns to flight
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES The second Lockheed Martin/Boeing DarkStar Tier III Minus unmanned air vehicle (UAV) finally flew for the first time on 29 June, more than two years after the first was destroyed in a crash at Edwards AFB, California. The crash led to extensive upgrades to the ...
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GM/Williams team up on microturbine generators
General Motors (GM) and Williams International have teamed up to develop microturbine generators for aerospace applications, primarily unmanned air vehicles (UAVs). The powerplants, which will also be used for distributed power generation, will be produced from a 40kW microturbine generator that was developed for an advanced hybrid electric car, ...
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A matter of modernisation
Maj Gen Eitan Ben-Eliahu, Commander of the Israeli air force, sees the "main goal" of his tenure as shepherding through critical modernisation programmes. For Ben-Eliahu, a fast jet pilot by trade, the obvious priority is the fighter fleet, although he adds that the air force's transport and helicopter fleets ...
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UAV
The Israeli Defense Force (IDF) is without question the most experienced of armed services when it comes to the operational utilisation of tactical unmanned air vehicles (UAVs). Deployed in earnest during the Bekaa Valley in 1982, the UAV is well established in the IDF's armoury. There is little sign ...
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Alliant accused of Outrider conspiracy in lax suit filing
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC A former partner in the US Defense Department's Outrider Tactical Unmanned Air Vehicle (TUAV) programme has filed a law suit alleging that prime contractor Alliant Techsystems incurred "cost overruns of millions of dollars" while trying to attain unachievable performance parameters. Mission Technologies also claims it has ...
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Ready for launch
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC Events taking place 10,000km (6,200 miles) apart could prove pivotal to the long-awaited deployment by military forces of vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) unmanned air vehicles (UAVs). US Navy officials now believe that VTOLUAV technology is mature enough for the service to begin equipping its warships ...
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UAVs on the horizon
Vertical take-off and landing unmanned air vehicles are just one class of pilotless aircraft capturing the imagination of military forces, entrepreneurs and scientists. UAV manufacturers hope that enthusiasm will be translated into an economic boom. Although primarily viewed as an instrument for the military, civil applications of UAVs are expected ...
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DARPA and Frontier develop long endurance UAV rotorcraft
The Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has teamed with Frontier Systems to flight test a revolutionary unmanned helicopter that can stay airborne for as long as 62h and achieve an unrefuelled maximum range of 8,550km (4,600nm). The newly revealed long endurance unmanned helicopter and the rival Boeing ...
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Guardian crashes as rival misses deadline
Bombardier's CL-327 Guardian vertical take-off and landing unmanned air vehicle (VTOLUAV) crashed on 10 June at the Yuma Proving Grounds, Arizona, after completing a flight test programme for the US Department of Defense (DoD). The Guardian is believed to be a total loss. Bombardier had completed the 50h of ...
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Canada may replace Germany for NATO project
Technical problems that have dogged development of the Daimler-Benz Aerospace (Dasa) Seamos vertical take-off and landing unmanned air vehicle (VTOL UAV) could force Project Group 35 of the NATO Naval Armaments Group to drop Germany from the Maritime UAV International Technology Demonstrator Programme (ITDP). Other nations involved include the ...
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Hydraulic loss spoils Global Hawk UAV test
Teledyne Ryan Aeronautical (TRA) is investigating a hydraulic failure which marred the otherwise successful third flight of the Global Hawk unmanned air vehicle (UAV). The aircraft lost hydraulic pressure on approach to the runway at Edwards AFB, California, after the 5h 22min flight on 30 May. The landing gear ...
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Kaman to demonstrate Magic Lantern variant
Kaman Aerospace is to demonstrate a variant of its Magic Lantern mine detection system using a K-MAX helicopter to play the role of an unmanned air vehicle (UAV) as part of a mine countermeasures advanced concept technology demonstration. The Office of Naval Research (ONR) is sponsoring the $2 million ...