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2000-06-19, Serge Pod: Report: Israel test fired nuclear capable, sub-launched cruise missiles By Douglas Davis LONDON (June 19) - Israel secretly test-fired cruise missiles capable of carrying nuclear weapons off the coast of Sri Lanka last month, the Sunday Times of London reported yesterday. Quoting Israeli defense sources, the paper reported that the tests were conducted from two German-built, Dolphin-class submarines and involved Israeli-made missiles equipped with conventional warheads hitting targets at sea at a range of about 1,500 kilometers. The sources were quoted as saying the launches were intended to simulate swift retaliation against a preemptive nuclear attack from Iran. Israel is only the third country - after America and Russia - to acquire the ability to fire nuclear-capable cruise missiles from submarines. The navy dismissed the report. "The report is baseless. This kind of test firing did not take place," said a statement by the IDF Spokesman. Nevertheless, reports of the Dolphin's cruise-missile capability…
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2000-06-16, Dron: Boeing company signed a contract today with US government worth of 8.96 million dollars for production of 222 supersonic F/A-18E/F naval jets in the next 5 years. It's only first batch out of a total of 548 aircraft to be ordered by Navy. Boeing representatives announced back in February that new model passed all tests with outstanding results. Back in April, USA Minister of Defence William Cohen demanded congress to approve this multiyear contract instead of annual contracts, claiming that this would allow US to save over 600 million dollars. Aircraft will be produced in St.Louis and Los Angeles. Copyright RBK
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2000-06-15, Dron: Today,a tri-color flag was raised over a new patrol boat for Russian Navy symbolizing official service entry with Russian Pacific Fleet. This is the first out of seven similar "guardians" to enter service this year. The ship was made at the OAO "Vostochnaya Verf'" in Vladivostok city. Displacement - 400 tones Speed - 30kts Armament - two 30mm six-barrel artillery guns and torpedoes. "Guardian" will patrol National waters in Kuril Islands region (near Pacific Ocean) Copyright Nikolai Litkovets
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2000-06-09, Jag_22: F-22 Raptor Flight Tests Resume by Ted Gogoll 06/06/00 06:57:42 PM U.S. EDT Flight testing of one of the U.S. Air Force’s two F-22 Raptors resumed after a four-week delay because of tiny cracks found in the jets’ canopies. An F-22 tiger team had found hairline surface cracks, less than an inch long, under a lower area where 140 bolts attach a 190-lb. transparency to the canopy frame. But the team determined the existing canopy had enough residual strength for continued flight testing, which is being staged at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. The team suspects the cracking on the next-generation fighter, which replaces the F-15, is from higher-than-expected stresses during manufacturing, assembly, and installation operations. Sierracin Sylmar Corp. built the aircraft’s canopy transparency. Copyright AviationNow
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2000-06-09, Jag_22: DASA Plans Upgrade For Canadair Drone 06/07/00 08:26:15 AM U.S. EDT BERLIN – DASA subsidiary Dornier is planning a substantial upgrade to the CL-289 tactical reconnaissance drone it developed with Bombardier/Canadair and delivered to the German armed forces in 1992. The low-level fast-flying drone has been successfully used in Bosnia (pictured) and Kosovo, and by the end of last year had notched more than 200 missions in Kosovo. Core of the upgrade kit, unveiled here at the ILA 2000 air show, will be a totally new fully electronic digital sensor system. This consists of a high resolution camera, and special infrared sensors for day and night missions. All-weather capability will be provided by a synthetic aperture radar. Courtesy Aviation Week’s ShowNews p.s. If you don't believe, then you can take a look at it at Yugoslavian Aviation Museum along other successfully used NATO hardware.
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2000-06-09, Jag_22: Sikorsky's S-92 To Undergo Design Changes by Paul Richfield 06/07/00 05:31:20 PM U.S. EDT Sikorsky plans to incorporate a number of significant design changes into its new S-92 helicopter, in a bid to improve the aircraft’s handling characteristics and utility. Tommy Thomason, Sikorsky’s civil programs chief, said search and rescue operators’ need for a larger door drove the redesign, which will delay FAA certification from its original December 2001 timeframe until the spring of 2002. To accommodate a 50-in. door (an 8-in. extension), the S-92 will receive a 16-in. fuselage plug aft of the cockpit that will move the helicopter’s center of gravity forward, allowing a flatter hover attitude. The extension also provides room for another row of seats, “but then you come up with a cabin attendant situation,” Thomason says. The additional weight will be offset somewhat by shortening the S-92’s vertical stabilizer by 41 in., and repositioning the horizontal stabilizer from the upper left side of the tail to the…
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2000-06-09, Jag_22: Pegasus Launches TSX-5 Successfully by Dee Ann Divis 06/07/00 05:55:37 PM U.S. EDT A Pegasus rocket successfully launched the Tri-Service Experiments Mission 5 (TSX-5) satellite into orbit today. The satellite carries two experiments, the Space Technology Research Vehicle-2 (STRV-2) and the Compact Environmental Anomaly Sensor (CEASE). STRV-2 will provide data on space-based imaging technology, satellite vibration suppression and material science while CEASE will scan the environment near the spacecraft. An L-1011 aircraft carried the air-launched Pegasus from Vandenberg AFB, Calif. to a point approximately 80 miles off the coast. At that point the Pegasus was released and then, after a planned five-second free fall, ignited its first-stage rocket motor to boost the satellite into orbit. Both the Pegasus and the TSX-5 satellite were built by Orbital for the Air Force. Copyright AviationNow
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2000-06-09, Jag_22: Taiwan To Buy $350M Of U.S. Weapons Equipment by Ted Gogoll 06/07/00 07:19:17 PM U.S. EDT The Pentagon said Taiwan is buying about $350 million worth of weapons equipment, including Pathfinder/Sharpshooter and electronic countermeasure pods to improve defensive and navigation capabilities on its F-16s (pictured). Along with the equipment, the sale includes flight testing, spare and repair parts and personnel training. Raytheon Co.’s Electronic Systems Division, Goleta, Calif., is the prime contractor for 48 An/ALQ-184 electronic countermeasure pods, which includes three years of technical support. The pods, in total worth about $122 million, will jam enemy anti-aircraft radar signals. Lockheed Martin, Orlando, Fla., is providing 39 sets of Pathfinder/Sharpshooter pods, which include a laser-designator feature. Taiwan is paying about $234 million for the pods to enhance low-altitude navigation on F-16s. The Pentagon said there will be no adverse affect on U.S. defense readiness as a result of the sale. And…
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2000-06-09, Jag_22: Sick Nuclear Weapons Workers To Be Compensated 06/08/00 09:08:01 PM U.S. EDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Nuclear weapons plant workers made ill by on-the-job exposure to radiation, silica or beryllium would receive medical benefits and at least $200,000 apiece under a program the Senate agreed upon Thursday. An amendment calling for the program was added without a vote to the defense authorization bill. The House version of the bill does not include the program, whose fate congressional negotiators would have to decide. Also, lawmakers have not set aside any money for the program, which could run into the hundreds of millions of dollars. ``It's not going to be real easy, simply because of the money involved,'' said Sen. Fred Thompson, chief sponsor of the amendment. Still, the Senate's action is a big step toward helping people suffering from cancer, silicosis or beryllium disease because of their Cold War-era employment. ``This is something the government should have addressed a long time ago. These people have…
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2000-06-09, Jag_22: Germans Taking First EC 135 For Tiger Training Show News 06/09/00 10:01:42 AM U.S. EDT BERLIN--Heeresflieger, the German Army air arm, is preparing to take delivery of its first Eurocopter EC 135s light twin helicopters, to begin pilot training for the Tiger multirole combat helicopter (left). The Heeresflieger has 15 EC 135s on order, with deliveries due to begin within the next two months. The EC 135 (pictured at right) has a full ‘glass’ cockpit by Sextant Avionique, essential for preparing combat pilots to fly and fight in the advanced Eurocopter Tiger. The EC 135 is becoming popular with governments and agencies--the Kuwait Interior Ministry recently bought two, and Portugal is the first to order the military version, the EC 635. Copyright AviationNow
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2000-06-09, Jag_22: Raytheon Unveils Improved AIM-120 AMRAAM Aviation Week's Show News 06/09/00 10:33:33 AM U.S. EDT BERLIN--Raytheon has unveiled an improved version of the AIM-120C (pictured) medium-range air-to-air missile, the AIM-120C5, which has been cleared for export to all “U.S. allies and security partners.” The C5 features an extended ‘Plus 5’ rocket motor, an improved blast/fragmentation warhead and the clipped fins adopted for internal carriage on the F-22 and future JSF. The new motor is faster than existing rockets, thus extending the launch aircraft’s survivability and effective reach. The improved, 5-in.-longer rocket has been accommodated through a redesign and reduction of the fin actuator unit so the C5 version retains the same external dimensions and weight and balance, as all other AMRAAMs. Copyright AviationNow
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2000-06-09, Jag_22: China Challenges Any Missile-Treaty Changes 06/09/00 12:14:31 PM U.S. EDT BEIJING (AP)--China accused the United States of “selfishness” Friday for seeking to revise a key arms control treaty, saying Washington’s bid to allow an anti-missile defense system would undermine global security. Joining forces on the issue, Chinese President Jiang Zemin and Russian President Vladimir Putin affirmed their shared opposition to revisions of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty in a telephone conversation Thursday. Lead arms negotiator Sha Zukang said that any revision to the ABM treaty would “seriously hinder nuclear disarmament” and would trigger a global arms race in space, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported Friday. Sha contended that revising the treaty out of “selfishness” would endanger world security and undermine U.S. interests. The United States should “think carefully before taking any action” so as to not “lift a rock only to drop it on its toes,” Xinhua cited Sha as saying in an exclusive…
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2000-06-09, Jag_22: Europe, U.S. Eye Joint F-16 Precision Weapons Buy by Jim Mathews 06/09/00 02:12:07 PM U.S. EDT The group of European nations that works with the U.S. on F-16 fighter program upgrades is studying a large, cooperative buy of precision-guided munitions, an initiative led by The Netherlands. “The objective…is to decrease costs to participants while significantly increasing their precision strike air-to-ground capabilities,” the U.S. Defense Dept. said today. Those participants will now include Portugal, which today joined the F-16 Multi-National Fighter Program (MNFP) organization started by Belgium, Denmark, Norway, The Netherlands and the U.S. in 1975. The group came together when F-16 exports began to pick up steam, in effect creating a working “users group” to share data, work on common upgrades and help each other support the planes and their infrastructure. Now with the possibility of a multi-lateral PGM buy, “the U.S. sees this consortium of nations as an excellent opportunity to showcase the…
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2000-06-09, Jag_22: New Radar Would Meld AWACS, J-STARS Roles by David A. Fulghum/Washington 06/09/00 03:36:20 PM U.S. EDT Radar improvement programs such as the E-8 Joint-STARS upgrade and Discoverer 2 radar-carrying satellite are being slashed because new technology is now being developed that combines long-range, air-to-air and air-to-ground radar in a single system with a single aperture. The new concept also incorporates active electronically scanned array technology that is cheap, lightweight, small and can virtually be "sold by the foot" for a wide range of airborne applications. Finally, the new radar system being envisioned by the Air Force would include a classified capability developed as an upgrade to the E-8 Joint-STARS ground surveillance radar aircraft that allows the tracking of fast, stealthy, cruise-missile-size flying targets at hundreds of miles distance. Supports say the new systems would cost $100 million each compared to $800 million for a JSTARS upgrade. Copyright AviationNow
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2000-06-09, Jag_22: Cohen: Russia's Missile Plan No Substitute For NMD by Robert Wall 06/09/00 04:26:40 PM U.S. EDT The U.S. would view a boost-phase missile defense system developed in cooperation with Russia as an adjunct for an American national missile defense system, not as a replacement, according to Pentagon chief William Cohen. Russian President Vladimir V. Putin recently appeared to have suggested a cooperative program, but U.S. national security officials are still not certain what kind of system the Russian leader meant. “So conceivably, depending upon the nature of what the Russians have in mind, it might be a complement to, but not a substitute for [NMD],” Cohen said while traveling to NATO headquarters in Brussels. As part of his trip to NATO, Cohen met with allied defense ministers to try to address their concerns about the U.S. missile defense effort, which is opposed by many European countries for fear it will destabilize relations with Russia. Copyright AviationNow
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2000-06-09, Jag_22: USAF Still Eyes Five Bases For F-22 by Jim Mathews 06/09/00 09:13:38 AM U.S. EDT All five bases on the U.S. Air Force’s initial list of potential first homes for the new F-22 Raptor air superiority fighter are still on the list following the first phase of public meetings, and the next round of community meetings is set to begin next month. Eglin AFB and Tyndall AFB, Fla., Elmendorf AFB, Alaska, Langley AFB, Va., and Mountain Home AFB, Idaho, “continue to be reasonable alternatives for the F-22 and should be analyzed in more detail in the draft Environmental Impact Statement,” the USAF says, though Langley remains the service’s first choice. “Public involvement is a critical element in the Environmental Impact Analysis Process,” said EIS Program Manager Brenda Cook at Langley. “ The issues of interest the public identifies will help determine what will be analyzed in the draft EIS.” The USAF wants all comments in hand by the end of September. Lockheed Martin is developing the F-22 to replace F-15Cs reaching…
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2000-06-07, Jag_22: F-16Is to Mark First Operational Use of IR-Based MAWS on Fighters Elisra Electronic Systems (Bene Beraq, Israel) has announced that the Israeli Air Force (IAF) will equip its new F-16I aircraft with the Passive Airborne Warning System 2 (PAWS-2), marking the first operational fit of an infrared (IR)-based missile-approach-warning system (MAWS) on a fixed-wing fighter (as opposed to large-body aircraft, a number of which have received such systems). The PAWS-2 is a variant of the original PAWS design, which provides IR-warning capabilities for helicopters and fixed-wing transport aircraft, and enables automatic operation of onboard countermeasures. The F-16Is, of which Israel has ordered 50 from Lockheed Martin (Ft. Worth, TX), are also to be fitted with a yet-to-be-named internal jammer and the AN/APG-68(V)X radar. Some will also receive the Lockheed Martin (Orlando, FL) LANTIRN system (for more, see “Israel Selects F-16 Indigenous EW,” JED, August 1999). — B. Rivers Saudis Express Interest in Additional…
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2000-06-07, Jag_22: Russia's East Line Rejects Western Aircraft Dmitry Kamenshik, Chairman of the East Line Group, said at a press briefing in May that the group had rejected proposals from both Boeing and Airbus on a wide-body cargo transport plane after an assessment of their proposals. This decision contrasts with statements earlier this year from Amiran Kurtanidze, General Director of East Line Airlines, who told the press that the freighter version of the A310 best met the requirements of the airline among available western aircraft. Speaking about the reasons for rejection, Kamenshi said western aircraft, while featuring low fuel burn and high potential utilisation rates, do not fit into the Russian "economic realities." Those realities appear to be, according to a number of Russian cargo carriers, that the complicated and time-consuming customs procedures in Russian airports make high utilization of cargo aircraft virtually impossible. "By making simple mathematical calculations with figures given to us by the foreign…
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2000-06-07, Jag_22: Stealth 'Skin' Replaced The nation's stealth fighters are getting a new skin, designed to make it easier to keep the planes in the sky. The chemical composition and the shape of the skin, which the Air Force calls "Radar Absorbing Material," are largely what makes the stealth fighter stealthy. The project aims to standardize the way the skin is applied to the plane, at a cost of $2 million an aircraft. The new skin will make the plane easier to maintain, in hopes of reducing its time in the shop by 30 to 50 percent and the cost of maintaining the stealthy materials by 20 percent, officials said. The first modified stealth fighters have arrived at the plane's home, Holloman Air Force Base, said Col. John Snider, commander of Holloman's 49th Operations Group. About 51 F-117 Nighthawks, the Air Force's entire inventory, are part of the 49th Fighter Wing at Holloman, which is near Alamogordo. The project recalls the frenetic pace in which the United States developed and deployed the stealth fighter in the early…
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2000-06-07, Jag_22: Siberian Fair presents An-2 Replacement Offerings The Siberian Aviation Fair held at Severny airport of Novosibirsk 30 May - 3 June attracted a handful of aircraft manufacturers, including Antonov, Ilyushin, Beriev and Sukhoi. Although the Fair had many participants from various sectors of aviation and airline industries, its main focus was on general aviation. In the Soviet Union the most numerous aircraft in civilian service was the Antonov An-2 biplane. In fact, every Soviet civilian pilot began his career with flying an An-2 in one of Aeroflot regional departments. First flown in 1947, the An-2 has been manufactured in 18,000 copies in the USSR, Poland, Germany and China. It still remains in active service as a chemical sprayer, light freighter and passenger plane, trainer and airborne platform for parachutists, etc. Although considered outdated and uneconomical by modern standards, the An-2 is still competing well on the second-hand market with more recent designs. The keys to its longevity have been…
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2000-06-07, Jag_22: Boeing Plans to Sign Contracts with Russian Companies. Itar-Tass News Agency WASHINGTON, June 3 (Itar-Tass) - The Boeing American corporation plans to sign new contracts with Russian companies during the American-Russian summit scheduled for June 4-5 in Moscow. According to information made available to Itar-Tass from informed sources, on Monday Boeing intends to conclude a new contract on purchasing titanium from the Metallurgical Production Association Verkhnyaya Salda, It is also planned to sign a new partnership agreement with the Ilyushin designers' office. A delegation of representatives of the Boeing leadership has already arrived in the Russian capital. grn/ © 1996-2000 Itar-Tass. All Rights Reserved.
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2000-06-07, Jag_22: U.S. Unmanned Vehicle Goes Down In Macedonia 06/05/00 07:37:24 AM U.S. EDT PRISTINA, Yugoslavia (AP) — A unmanned NATO spy plane lost power on a mission over southern Kosovo and was forced to make a parachute landing early Saturday, a U.S. Army statement said. The small U.S. plane, called Hunter Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, went down just after midnight inside Macedonia, within two miles of the Kosovo border, the statement said without providing details. It was unknown if the plane had been damaged. U.S. army officials in the peacekeeping force in Kosovo were reportedly working with Macedonia's government to recover the aircraft. It was the second time in two weeks that an unmanned NATO aircraft was forced to make an unscheduled landing in the area. A British “Phoenix” was forced last week to make a parachute landing in the ground safety zone, which is the three mile buffer zone along Kosovo's boundary with Serbia proper, sources in the NATO-led mission said. NATO aircraft patrol the border to give early warning…
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2000-06-07, Jag_22: Another Delay For Turkish Attack Helicopter Program by Metehan Demir 06/05/00 08:49:45 AM U.S. EDT Turkey once again disappointed defense contractors by delaying its long-expected attack helicopter decision. On Friday, Turkey's Defense Industry Executive Committee, after meeting for two hours, said the $4 billion decision to produce 145 helicopters has been delayed for another month. Turkey's prime minister, top general and defense minister also noted that technical criteria for the contestants were found unsatisfactory. Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit said after the meeting that the Bell-Textron King Cobra, the Ka50-2 from the Russian-Israeli partnership Kamov, and Italy's A-129 International again failed to meet technical specifications. Sources said another main reason was a dispute on financial problems between Turkey and the companies. Copyright AviationNow
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2000-06-07, Jag_22: Russian Gunships Active In Sierra Leone by John Fricker 06/05/00 12:21:40 PM U.S. EDT British military observers returning from Sierra Leone, in West Africa, where UK forces are supporting mainly African United Nations troops in beating off attacks by rebel guerrillas, have reported that Mi-24V “Hind D” helicopter gunships are being operated from Lungi International Airport on behalf of the local government. Sierra Leone never had more than a nominal air force, with a few light aircraft, until 1995, when five Mi-24Vs were supplied from Commonwealth of Independent States (formerly the Soviet Union) sources and flown by mercenary crews in attacks against Revolutionary United Front guerrillas. These or additional Mi-24s are evidently still being operated on similar sorties, with stub wing-mounted AT-2 “Swatter” wire-guided antitank missiles, bombs, rocket pods, and a four-barrelled 0.5-in 9-A-624 rotary machine-gun firing at up to 5,000 rounds per minute in a chin-turret. Copyright AviationNow
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2000-06-07, Jag_22: Germany To Allow Aerobatic Formation At Berlin Show 06/06/00 12:12:04 PM U.S. EDT FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — An aerobatic team will fly in formation this week at an air show in Germany for the first time since three Italian stunt jets collided and unleashed a fiery mass that plowed into a crowd of spectators 12 years ago at Ramstein Air Base, killing 70 people. Germany reacted immediately to the Ramstein accident that also injured 400 people, banning all aerobatic flights — even single-jet maneuvers. The horrible images from the crash, whose victims are still today undergoing therapy, also created such an atmosphere of caution that air shows voluntarily refrained from allowing even formation flying — a much less risky maneuver. Sensitivities are still so high that the German aerospace industry's business association sought and was granted permission by the federal Transport Ministry for the Patrouille de France aerobatic military team to do a formation flyover Saturday at Berlin's biennial International…
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