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Singapore to buy Airbus refuelling tankers for air forceSingapore (AFP) March 06, 2014 Singapore said Thursday it would replace its ageing KC-135R air refuelling tankers made by US firm Boeing with Airbus's A330 Multi-Role Tanker Transport (MRTT) aircraft. Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen told parliament of the decision to acquire the MRTT, which is based on the civilian A330 plane. Ng did not say how many Singapore will buy, but an industry source said in January the city-state wants to buy six MRTT aircraft in a contract worth an estimated one billion euros ($1.4 billion). The Si ... read more |
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 Robotic Exploration of Moon, Mars a Priority Opportunity Mars Rover Exploring Murray Ridge Area Russia to launch three lunar rovers from 2016 to 2019 China to launch first "space shuttle bus" this year A small step toward discovering habitable earths Spiral galaxy spills blood and guts | .. |
 ARES Aims to Provide More Front-line Units with Mission-tailored VTOL Capabilities U.S. military experience has shown that rugged terrain and threats such as ambushes and Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) can make ground-based transportation to and from the front lines a dangero ... more | .. |
 Northrop Grumman Provides Inertial Navigation Products for TiltRotor Aircraft Northrop Grumman has been selected by AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica company, to provide flight-critical inertial instruments on the new AW609 TiltRotor aircraft undergoing civil certification throu ... more | .. |
 Lockheed Martin Receives US Army Apache Targeting and Pilotage System Sustainment Contract Lockheed Martin received a $92 million Performance Based Logistics (PBL) contract in December 2013 from the U.S. Army for sustainment of the AH-64 Apache helicopter Modernized Target Acquisition Des ... more | .. |
 Israeli arms dealers held over seized F-4 parts for Iran Israeli arms dealers Eli Cohen and Avichai Weinstein have been arrested on suspicion of trying to smuggle F-4 fighter components to Iran amid a shakeup in the Defense Ministry over concerns supervision of arms exports is too lax, Israeli media reported. ... more |
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 BAE secures deal with Saudi Arabia on Typhoon jet pricing BAE, the world's third-largest defense company, has secured an agreement with Saudi Arabia over the pricing of 72 Eurofighter Typhoon strike jets, after two years of fraught negotiations and unsuccessful efforts to export the aircraft elsewhere. ... more | .. |
 F-35B Aircraft Fly In Formation In Short Takeoff/Vertical Landing Mode Two F-35B aircraft fly in close formation while in short takeoff/vertical landing (STOVL) mode for the first time last week. Pilots Peter Wilson and Dan Levin flew the test jets in STOVL mode, also ... more | .. |
 Airbus wants money for Germany's scrapped Eurofighter order: report Airbus is demanding 900 million euros ($1.2 billion) in compensation from Germany for cancelling an order for a batch of 37 Eurofighter jets, according to a newspaper report Monday. ... more | .. |
 Why is the US spending so much on the F-35 fighter? Despite incessant technical problems and delays, the US military has no plans to cancel the new F-35 fighter jet, the costliest weapons program in Pentagon history. ... more |
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 French anti-airport protesters clash with police Protesters opposed to plans to build a new airport for the French city of Nantes smashed shop windows Saturday and hurled paving stones at police, who answered with tear gas and rubber bullets. ... more | .. |
 Proposed supersonic plane to do without windows, video screens instead A U.S. firm working to develop a supersonic passenger aircraft says the design will lack one thing found in every other such airplane - windows. ... more | .. |
 US Navy Tests Infrared Search and Track on Boeing Super Hornet The U.S. Navy recently tested, for the first time on a Boeing [NYSE: BA] F/A-18 Super Hornet aircraft, the Infrared Search and Track (IRST) sensor that will find hard-to-detect targets over long dis ... more |
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 Boeing and Air France Industries Complete Major Modification of French AWACS Aircraft Boeing and Air France Industries KLM Engineering and Maintenance (AFI KLM E and M ) have successfully completed the Mid-Life Upgrade modification on the first of four E-3F Airborne Warning and Contr ... more | .. |
 Test Flight of the Modernized Day Sensor Assembly on the AH-64E Apache Attack Helicopter Team Apache Sensors, including the U.S. Army Apache Attack Helicopter Project Management Office, the U.S. Army Aviation Flight Test Directorate and Lockheed Martin, conducted a test flight of the Ap ... more | .. |
Germany cuts order for Eurofighter jets: report Germany's defence ministry is planning to reduce its order for Eurofighter jets from 180 to 143, according to media reports on Thursday. ... more | .. |
AgustaWestland gets Indonesian and Malaysian helicopter orders AgustaWestland announced it has signed a deal to provide Indonesian charter service Travira Air with two twin-engine AW139 intermediate helicopters. ... more |
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 Crystals ripple in response to light New research could help make 'roll-up' digital screens a reality for all Interactive simulator for vehicle drivers IT security for the daily life: Withdrawing money at cash machines with 'Google Glass' Colored diamonds are a superconductor's best friend Promising News for Solar Fuels from Berkeley Lab Researchers at JCAP | .. |
 Brazil regional jet makes inroads into U.S. market Brazilian regional jet Embraer 175 is making more inroads into the U.S. commercial aviation market, apparently at the expense of aircraft made by North American manufacturers. ... more | .. |
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 Airbus Group To Acquire Salzburg Munchen Bank, Establish Company Bank Airbus Group has entered into a Share Purchase Agreement with Raiffeisenverband Salzburg to acquire Salzburg Munchen Bank AG, in order to provide additional financing options for the aeronautics and ... more | .. |
 Planetary Scientists Get Into Balloon Game A new device developed by NASA will help planetary scientists take advantage of high altitude research balloons, a relatively inexpensive observational platform that has long been used by other scie ... more |
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 Lockheed Martin Files For FAA Type Design Update Lockheed Martin officials submitted a Program Notification Letter to the Federal Aviation Administration on Jan. 21, 2014, for a type design update for the Lockheed Martin Model L-382J airplane, a c ... more | .. |
 Black box found as Algeria seeks cause of deadly plane crash Algerian search teams recovered one of the black box flight recorders of a military plane on Wednesday in their quest for clues to why it crashed killing all but one of 78 people on board. ... more | .. |
 A BARREL of Fun in Antarctica Researchers from Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H., with the support of NASA balloon scientists, are having a "BARREL" of fun in Antarctica. The Balloon Array for Radiation belt Relativistic ... more | .. |
 WASP Gives NASA's Planetary Scientists New Observation Platform Scientists who study Earth, the sun and stars have long used high-altitude scientific balloons to carry their telescopes far into the stratosphere for a better view of their targets. Not so much for ... more |
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