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2000-05-16, Jag_22: Andrei Martirosov, general director of TyumenAviatTrans (TAT), reported at a recent press-briefing in Moscow about a substantial increase in orders from both local and domestic customers for services the airline offers. In 1999 TAT signed commercial agreements with Heyns Helicopters of South Africa for the dry lease of eight Mi-8MTV1 helicopters and with Elak KFT of Mozambique for the lease of three Mi-8s. Over the past year TAT has also won UN tenders for helicopter services in Western Sakhara, the Central African Republic, Mozambique, Indonesia (Eastern Timor) and Sierra Lione. A number of contracts were signed for An-24 and Yak-40 airlines on behalf of the UN and various agencies of small countries. In all, foreign activities brought the airline an income of $4 million in 1999. These accounted for merely 4% of the company's income of Rbs 0.93 billion in 1999, but Martirosov says that there is a real chance to increase the share of foreign orders in the near future up to 50%. There is some ground for such…
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2000-05-16, Jag_22: Will JSF Be A Split Decision? The US Defense Department is said to be leaning toward dividing up the spoils in the Joint Strike Fighter cook-off currently in progress. Two competitors are fiercely working toward the day when one will be selected as the winning entry. But it may not be winner take all. The downselect a few years ago to finalists Boeing and Lockheed Martin virtually assured McDonnell Douglas that it would have no future in the defense aircraft picture. After previously failing to secure a winning position in the competition for what is now the F-22, McDonnell Douglas had its hopes pinned on the JSF. Northrup Grumman had similarly been ruled out as a prime and started marching toward its destiny as a super sub-contractor. After the fatal JSF ruling, McDonnell Douglas quietly found a place for its people and programs at industry giant Boeing. While the Lockheed/Martin Marietta, Boeing/McDonnell Douglas and other mergers/consolidations in the US defense industry were causing shockwaves around the…
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2000-05-16, Jag_22: Norwegian Govt Set to Abandon Plan to Buy 20 Fighter Planes Worth 1.3 Bln EUR AFX News Limited OSLO (AFX) - The government proposed to parliament to abandon its plan to buy 20 new fighter aircraft worth a total of 1.3 bln eur. "After reviewing the goals and the investment plans, the government proposes that the purchase of 20 new fighter planes is not followed through", the government said in connection with its 2000 draft budget. The government proposed instead the updating of Norway's existing F-16 fighters, manufactured by Lockheed Martin Corp. Copyright 2000 AFX News Limited. All Rights Reserved.
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2000-05-16, Jag_22: Israel to Sell Additional Jet Fighters to SRI Lanka United Press International TEL AVIV, Israel, May 12 (UPI) — Israel has agreed to sell Sri Lanka additional Kfir jet fighters, a senior defense official confirmed Friday. The source, who insisted on anonymity, said the deal would be a continuation of an earlier sale of five Kfir's to Sri Lanka's air force. The Kfir, which looks like the French Mirage III, had been the mainstay of the Israel Air Force more than a quarter of a century ago. The defense source said the Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) will buy the planes from the air force, upgrade them and charge Sri Lanka for handling. He said he expected five to six aircraft to be supplied in about a year. Earlier, Sri Lanka bought Saar 4.5 missile boats from the Israeli navy and smaller Dabur and Devora patrol boats from the IAI. Two weeks ago, Sri Lanka announced resumption of diplomatic relations with Israel, in another turn of the two countries' on-again-off-again see-saw relationship. The decision…
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2000-05-13, Jag_22: Mil user conference "A broad programme of upgrades of the Mil helicopter family is planned over the next five years by the manufacturer. In connection with this, Mil's First Deputy General Designer, Alexei Samusenko, recently announced that the firm plans a major conference this spring for current users of Mil helicopters. Along with the firm's own upgrade projects, the conference will address a modernization programme of helicopters developed jointly with Mil's Moscow Helicopter Plant, the Ministry of Economics, Rosaviakosmos and the other manufacturing plants associated with Mil's designs. The latter programme is based on financial support from the State budget, covering a period of five years, with the likelihood of one tranche of support being granted per year. Around 30,000 Mil helicopters of all types have been built, of which 11,000 are Mi-8/17s currently available on the export market for US$4-4.5m." Copyright AFM
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2000-05-13, Jag_22: New Mi-28 announced Mil Mi-28N "The executive Director of the Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant, Vitaly Shcherbin, announced recently that final assembly of a new variant of the Mi-28 has just been completed at the factory. Known as the Mi-28D, the new variant has been optimized for daylight operations, h~nce the new suffix (D for Dnevnoy/day). Shcherbin has stated that the Mi28D is equipped with an identical equipment fit to that of the night-capable Mi-28N (Nochnoy/night), but that it does not have the mast-mounted radar, or TV integrated with the sighting system. Although not stated, it seems likely that the Mi-28D is intended for the export market and for countries which do not require sophisticated night attack capability." Copyright AFM
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2000-05-13, Jag_22: MiG 1.44 still important MiG 1.44 MFI "In contrast to Sukhoi's more downbeat approach, the General Designer of RSK-MiG, (Rossijskaya Samolyotostroitelnaya Korporatsiya - MiG/Russian Aircraft Manufacturing Corporation-MiG), Nikolai Nikitin, asserts that the recently-flown 1.44 technology demonstrator will play a major part in defining Russia's fifth-generation fighter in the coming months. RSK-MiG's senior management considers that it would be extremely shortsighted and entirely wrong not to exploit fully the multitude of technical innovations and improvements integrated into the design of the 1.44. Nikitin further states that RSK-MiG "has a particularly clear idea of what a Russian fifth -generation fighter should be" and that data accumulated from the 1.44 test programme should form a solid foundation for RSK-MiG's submission for such an aircraft. He also emphasizes that the 1.44 incorporates a whole range of technological solutions not previously used in military aircraft construction and design. "Should…
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2000-05-13, Jag_22: The Chinese Embassy Bombing "In the early hours of May 7, 1999, a USAF B-2 Spirit bomber, escorted by EA-6B defence suppression aircraft and F-15C fighters, dropped three GPS-guided Joint Defence Air Munition (JDAM) bombs on the Chinese Embassy in the Novi Beograd district of Belgrade, capital of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The action came under the auspices of the NATO campaign to prevent the genocidal policies of the Serbian Government. The US has always maintained that the bombing was an unfortunate mistake. However, though the dust has settled and the victims have long since been buried, the controversy continues unabated. Whilst the true story behind the strike is classified, and will remain so for the foreseeable future, some elements of the case are beyond doubt. However, new facts about the bombing cast increasing doubt on the US position. Flagrant disregard If the bombing was in fact deliberate, the strike showed flagrant disregard for the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations. The…
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2000-05-13, Jag_22: Air Force Vision: Integrated Air, Space Capabilities by Michael C. Gabriele 05/11/00 06:04:59 PM U.S. EDT The differences between tactical and strategic intelligence will continue to blur as the U.S. Air Force deepens integration of air and space capabilities, the service’s 21 st century mission blueprint states. Redefining the “aerospace continuum” to include the control of space would provide the Air Force with centralized control and decentralized execution on a global basis. The leading edge of this tactical/strategic convergence was demonstrated in the recent air campaign in Serbia, states the report, “The Aerospace Force: Defending America in the 21st century.” (defending my ass! These Bastards only bombing helpless nations!) “Growing threats such as cruise missiles, theater ballistic missiles and hostile space assets, as well as our own growing dependence on commercial space services, present new challenges to joint operations,” the report says. The report calls for a “seamless” mix of air and space…
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2000-05-13, Jag_22: Spacewalking Cosmonauts Preening Mir by Norval G. Kennedy 05/12/00 09:36:10 AM U.S. EDT Two Russian cosmonauts will be outside their Mir space station until about noon Eastern Time today on the first-ever commercial spacewalk. Sergei Zalyotin and Alexander Kalery opened the Kvant-2 module’s hatch at about 6:44 Eastern primarily for a walkaround to check overall condition of the spacecraft and to disassemble science equipment. They were set to spend about 5 1/2 hrs. inspecting a Kvant solar panel, retrieving a sample of an experimental film solar array and testing equipment that will apply a sealant to the station’s external shell. Zalyotin and Alexander have been on Mir since April 6 on a long-duration mission for leaseholder MirCorp based in the Netherlands. MirCorp wants to use the 14-year-old station for commercial purposes. Copyright AviationNow
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2000-05-13, Jag_22: House Lawmakers Cut Joint Strike Fighter Budget by Robert Wall 05/12/00 10:16:52 AM U.S. EDT The U.S. military’s Joint Strike Fighter development program was dealt another blow Thursday when House defense appropriators decided to cut the Pentagon’s budget request by $150 million to $706 million. It comes only a day after Senate defense authorizers reduced the program’s budget by $170 million. Both committees said they took the money because they believe next year’s contract award to JSF competitors Boeing and Lockheed Martin will be delayed. The Senate also had some concerns about the technical maturity of the program. However, more congressional budget deliberations will take place in the coming weeks, and Pentagon and industry officials believe the money may be restored. Another major decision by House appropriators concerned the F-22. The subcommittee, which last year wanted to take all production money out of the program, this year decided to fully fund the U.S. Air Force’s budget request for the stealth…
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2000-05-13, Jag_22: Russian Firefighting Aircraft Could Go To Los Alamos 05/12/00 10:27:12 AM U.S. EDT MOSCOW (AP) — Two giant Il-76 jets capable of dumping 44 tons of water are standing by to help fight the fire in Los Alamos in the United States if needed, Russian officials said Friday. The Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations said it had received an official request from the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency for the planes, but was awaiting confirmation before ordering the long flight to the United States. The planes were “ready to take off at any minute,” said ministry official Alexander Zalyotov. The four-engine Il-76MDP can water-bomb an area 500 meters by 100 meters (500 yards by 100 yards) or drop 40 fully-equipped firefighters by parachute, according to Jane's All The World's Aircraft . A forest fire on Thursday swept into Los Alamos, site of the famed nuclear-weapons lab, and 18,000 residents have been evacuated. Copyright AviationNow
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2000-05-13, Jag_22: Testing Ways To Fight The Next War by Jim Mathews 05/12/00 11:36:10 AM U.S. EDT U.S. Joint Forces Command planners in Norfolk, Va., this summer will begin experimenting with their first “integrating concept” under the Joint Vision 2010 blueprint for future warfighting – Rapid Decisive Operations, an attempt to tailor large-scale U.S. forces to smaller scale operations. Planners will try to figure out how “in a matter of days instead of months, [to] project sufficient military capability across global distances and incapacitate a capable regional power,” explains Dave Ozolek, a senior engineer adviser for the JFCOM’s Joint Experimentation Directorate. The idea is to move away from traditional tactics aimed at exhausting an enemy – waiting for attrition to weaken a foe’s forces, for example – toward pinpoint attacks on elements that give an enemy his coherence. The studies this summer will compare three Rapid Decisive Operations alternatives with the performance of today’s forces in the same scenario.…
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2000-05-13, Jag_22: Next-Generation Military GPS To Stay Loud and Clear by Mal Gormley 05/12/00 04:07:41 PM U.S. EDT The MITRE Corporation says a new technique under development will enable military users of the Global Positioning System (GPS) to continue receiving accurate navigation signals in the face of an adversary’s jamming. Called M Code, the new signal will be broadcast at a much higher gain, or volume, than is currently utilized by GPS transmitters. MITRE consulting engineer John Betz, who heads up the new signal development effort, says M Code will use the same 1575 MHz frequency assigned to current GPS signals. Betz spoke recently with AviationNow in an exclusive interview. Betz says that despite the increased signal gain, the M Code signals will not interfere with civilian GPS users, as some GPS developers have worried. The code would benefit civilian users by discouraging adversaries from transmitting spurious GPS signals in an effort to reduce military GPS accuracy. The military is still studying whether or not to…
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2000-05-13, Jag_22: NASA Considers Two Concepts For Mars Mission by Michael C. Gabriele 05/12/00 07:26:48 PM U.S. EDT NASA may launch a Mars scientific orbiter or a surface lander/rover in 2003, two mission concepts selected from dozens of options, which have been under study. NASA said it would make a final decision—including whether to proceed to launch—in early July. Two teams, one centered at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., and the other at Lockheed Martin Astronautics, Denver, will conduct separate, two-month studies to define the concepts, as well as evaluate risk, cost, and readiness for flight. The reports will be submitted for review to Scott Hubbard, Mars program director. Dr. Ed Weiler, NASA associate administrator for space science, will make the final selection. The Mars Surveyor Orbiter would study the planet’s atmosphere, while the Mars Mobile Lander would provide measurements of surface mineralogy and geochemistry. The lander would reach the Martian surface using an airbag cocoon similar to…
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2000-05-11, Jag_22: MiG-29 Upgrade Makes First Demonstration Flight by Rob Hewson 05/11/00 02:08:30 PM U.S. EDT Romania’s Aerostar flew its upgraded MiG-29 Sniper demonstrator aircraft for the first time on May 5, at the company’s Bacau factory headquarters. DaimlerChrysler Aerospace’s chief test pilot, Wolfgang Schirdewann, was at the controls during the 42-minute flight. Aerostar, DaimlerChrysler and Israel’s Elbit developed the Sniper as an upgrade for about 18 MiG-29 ‘Fulcrum-As’ in service with Romanian and other Eastern European air forces. The Sniper’s improved onboard systems will be fully compatible with NATO and ICAO standards. The redesigned cockpit features a far more efficient man-machine interface. A new on-board computer supports an expanded range of weapons options, as well as built-in growth potential for future radar, fire-control and electronic-warfare systems. Aerostar already has considerable experience in MiG-29 overhaul and maintenance, and an airframe life extension program is part of the upgrade…
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2000-05-10, Jag_22: Poland Considers Mi-24 Upgrade By Ryszard Jaxa-Malachowski, AWN Central European correspondent The Polish Ministry of Defense has started to look into upgrading an unspecified number of Mil Mi-24 Hind attack helicopters operated by the Army Aviation. Currently there are 46 helicopters of this type in two slightly varying models, B and W. Twelve of them came in early 1990s as a donation from Germany, having been in service with the National Army German Democratic Republic. The remaining Hinds were purchased directly from the Soviet Union in the 1980s. Mi-24s are operated by two regiments, and their main mission is to support operations of the 25th Air Cavalry Brigade providing air cover and close support. The other duty is tank hunting, for which four Malutka or Gad missiles are carried. According to current estimations, the helicopters are due to reach their life limits soon and the very first aircraft will have to be grounded in 2003. Only five operational Hinds will be in service by 2010. However, the…
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2000-05-10, Jag_22: Berlin air show girds for record turnout Deutsche Press-Agentur (dpa) Berlin (dpa) - The International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition (ILA) in Berlin this year will see a record participation of some 850 exhibitors from 35 countries, show organisers said Tuesday. The June 6-12 ILA - the fifth to be held in Berlin on the alternating two-year basis after the show was moved from Hanover in 1992 - will see the first-time participation of South Africa, Ireland, Uzbekistand and Brazil. The ILA organisers - the Berliner Messe fair company and the German Aviation and Aerospace Federation BDLI - said that around 300 different aircraft will be on view, both on the ground and in air demonstrations. BDLI managing director Hans Eberhard Birke said the figures point to the ILA, at Berlin-Schoenefeld airport, now being the world's largest in terms of quantity and quality of aircraft being exhibited. But he conceded that U.S. airplane giant Boeing is not taking part at this year's show. The organisers said they were…
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2000-05-10, Jag_22: Eurofighter president warns Norway not to delay aircraft deal Deutsche Press-Agentur (dpa) Oslo (dpa) - Fighter aircraft maker Eurofighter has offered to lease combat planes to Norway's military in a last-minute bid to prevent postponement of a 1.2 billion-dollar deal, a newspaper report said Wednesday. Cesare Gianni, president of Eurofighter International, wrote a letter to Norwegian Defence Minister Bjoern Tore Godal is which he warned of the consequences for "Norway's role on the European political scene" if the military puts off a planned purchase of Eurofighter aircraft until 2010, the Oslo newspaper Aftenposten said. On Friday, the government presents its revised budget, which is expected to contain a decision on the Eurofighter purchase. Godal declined to comment on Gianni's letter until after the budget goes to the parliament. In his letter to Godal, Gianni said he could offer Norway alternatives "that take into account budget concerns with respect to the investment profile". These include a leasing…
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2000-05-10, Jag_22: Missile Defense Boss Sees Years Of Testing Ahead 05/09/00 07:06:44 PM U.S. EDT WASHINGTON (AP) — President Clinton may decide as early as this summer whether to give a green light to constructing a national missile defense, but the Air Force general leading the project said Tuesday it would take four more years of testing before he would feel confident it will work. Lt. Gen. Ronald Kadish said the development of a national missile defense — designed to shoot down a small number of missiles fired from North Korea or the Middle East — is on the right track. He expressed confidence that the next flight test of an interceptor rocket, scheduled for June, will be a success. But Kadish, who directs the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, said there are so many technological milestones yet to be met that he would not be confident about its effectiveness until production-model rocket boosters and other advanced equipment are tested in 2004. Not until that stage will the testing involve people who would actually…
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2000-05-10, Jag_22: Senate Panel Shifts Funds On Joint Strike Fighter 05/09/00 09:43:16 PM U.S. EDT WASHINGTON (AP)—Secretary of Defense William Cohen sought to head off a new congressional threat on Tuesday to the development of the Joint Strike Fighter, but a Senate panel decided to put restrictions on how quickly funds are spent on the $220-billion program. Cohen and Gen. James Jones, the commandant of the Marine Corps, met behind closed doors with members of the Senate Armed Services Committee in a plea to preserve funding. The committee voted to shift funds for the plane from the engineering and manufacturing phase, as the administration had wanted, into the less-advanced phase of “demonstration and validation.” The fighter, one of the most expensive planes ever to be built, has come under criticism from congressional cost-cutters recently, a year after Congress came close to killing off the Air Force’s F-22 Stealth bomber. (Call me silly, but I thought it was a fighter! Well guess not) While the House Armed Services…
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2000-05-10, Jag_22: Lockheed Martin Keeping F-22 Plant In Georgia 05/10/00 10:12:26 AM U.S. EDT MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) — Lockheed Martin has decided against moving final assembly of the F-22 stealth fighter from Marietta to Fort Worth, Texas, preserving 1,000 jobs at the suburban Atlanta plant. “During the last few months, we have reviewed results from previous studies of F-22 production plans, including options for moving final assembly,” Marietta plant chief Tom Burbage said in a memo Tuesday to Marietta workers. Burbage said “financial implications” of the studies did not support such a plan. “Therefore, there are no plans to move F-22 final assembly from our facility in Marietta,” he said. In February, the Bethesda, Md.-based company announced 2,800 layoffs, 2 percent of its work force of 140,000, which it said would generate $200 million in annual savings. Lockheed Martin said the majority of the savings would be achieved in the Aeronautical Systems business, which would be consolidated into a single unit to be called Lockheed…
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2000-05-06, Jag_22: Love Bug Virus Bites NASA Computers by Dee Ann Divis 05/05/00 04:23:04 PM U.S. EDT Four NASA centers shut down their email systems yesterday as a precaution against further infection by the “ILOVEYOU” virus while they disinfected their computers. Several hundred machines were affected across the agency, though a NASA headquarters spokesman said that no mission critical systems were impacted. The virus, apparently originating in the Philippines, raced across the world via email yesterday, clogging computer networks and destroying files. Goddard Space Flight Center, Johnson Space Center, Kennedy Space Center and Marshall Space Flight Center each closed down their email systems while they addressed the problem. “It's been an annoyance from the business side of it,” said the spokesman, “but you just have to go back to the days before we had email and work that way.” Copyright AviationNow
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2000-05-06, Jag_22: Cohen To Warner: Avoid 6-Month JSF Delay by Charles Rabb Aerospace Daily 05/05/00 09:58:30 AM U.S. EDT Defense Secretary William S. Cohen yesterday urged Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John W. Warner (R-Va.) to avoid mandating a six-month delay in the Joint Strike Fighter program. Cohen’s letter to Warner was sent the day after the Senate committee received a proposal calling for the delay. The proposal, sources said, would match funding with progress in the program’s technology, which is lagging, according to the General Accounting Office. If Warner thinks JSF shouldn’t move to the engineering, manufacturing and development (EMD) phase until all three JSF models are tested successfully, Cohen said, Warner should consider addressing the problem directly “by prohibiting DOD from proceeding to EMD until these events occur.” Cohen said the program should be event-based rather than the calendar-based, “albeit with a six-month delay,” approach before the committee. At a minimum, Cohen asked Warner to…
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2000-05-06, Jag_22: NATO Gets Report Critical Of Missile Defense by Robert Wall 05/05/00 05:09:17 PM U.S. EDT A group of former government officials and arms control experts have given NATO members a report sharply critical of the U.S. national missile defense plans. The Lawyers Alliance for World Security presented their report at a meeting of NATO parliamentarians in Slovenia. The missile defense effort will “interfere with international efforts to stem proliferation, destabilize relations with China and Russia,” the report said. The report comes at a critical time as the U.S. is struggling to get backing for the program from its allies. Many European allies fear it will weaken the U.S. commitment to the transatlantic alliance and strain relations with Russia. The White House later this year is slated to decide whether to proceed with NMD to develop and build an operational system that would be ready in 2005. Copyright AviationNow
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