SP's MAI Issue No. 6 | March 16-31, 2017 - Aerospace Updates
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AEROSPACE / REPORT
Indian Navy's TU-142M gets de-inducted
By Our Special CorrespondentAfter having served the Indian Navy with pride and élan for 29 years...
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AEROSPACE / REPORT
Airbus C295 on the horizon!
By Air Marshal B.K. Pandey (Retd)Induction of the Avro fleet into the IAF had begun in the early 1960s and having rendered over five decades of service, retirement of the fleet is certainly overdue.
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AEROSPACE
Inauguration of 'Test Bed' at INS RajaliAdmiral Sunil Lanba, Chief of the Naval Staff, inaugurated the first ever Integrated Automatic Aviation Meteorological System (IAAMS) at INS Rajali on March 28, 2017. The IAAMS is an ambitious project of the Indian Navy to modernise the meteorological...
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AEROSPACE
F-35 successfully conducts first firings of MBDA's ASRAAMThe F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter jet has successfully conducted its first firing trials of the MBDA advanced short range air-to-air missile (ASRAAM). The trials are the first time a British-designed missile has been fired from the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter...
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AEROSPACE
New Director General (Inspection & Safety) at Air HeadquartersAir Marshal S. Harpal Singh has assumed office of Director General (Inspection and Safety) on March 21, 2017. Air Marshal S. Harpal Singh graduated with 56th course of National Defence Academy and was commissioned in the fighter stream...
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AEROSPACE / UNMANNED
The decisive factorThe Hermes 450 UAV division performs the most flight hours in the Israeli Air Force (IAF). In the first eight months of 2016, it clocked 16,807 flight hours.
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AEROSPACE / UNMANNED
Schiebel Camcopter S-100 heading towards MUM-T operationsSchiebel and Patria have been working together to integrate Patria’s sophisticated Compact Airborne Networking Data Link (CANDL) communication network...
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AEROSPACE
Ka-52 Alligator helicopters deliveries to Egypt soonRussian Helicopters, a leading global designer and manufacturer of helicopters, confirms that the first of an eventual 46 Alligators will be handed over to Cairo this year.
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AEROSPACE / UNMANNED
Heron 1 UAV fully operationalThe Singapore Minister for Defence Dr Ng Eng Hen officiated at a ceremony to mark the achievement of full operational capability status by the Republic of Singapore Air Force’s Heron 1 unmanned aerial vehicle at Murai Camp recently.
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AEROSPACE / UNMANNED
Pentagon contract announcementGeneral Atomics-Aeronautical Systems Inc, Poway, California, has been awarded a $98-million ceiling indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for the MQ-9 technology maturation effort.