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		<title>Boeing extends RAAF F/A-18 component repairs</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 06:34:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boeing Australia has signed a contract with the DMO to provide repair and refurbishment work for the RAAF’s F/A-18A/B Hornet fleet. The work will comprise the refurbishment of flight control surfaces, doors and panels for the ageing Hornet fleet at Boeing’s Component Repairs facility at Tullamarine in Melbourne, and includes the replacement of aluminium control [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US Navy tests Super Hornet Distributed Targeting System</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 04:43:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The US Navy has started testing a Distributed Targeting System (DTS) for the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet at NAS China Lake in central California. The DTS will allow Super Hornet crews to better process multiple targeting information. The first stage of the test process will see an image exploitation processor and mass storage unit integrated with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NZ C-130 upgrade issues settled</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 01:08:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New Zealand government has come to an agreement with prime contractor L-3 Comm Spar and subcontractor Safe Air to complete the RNZAF’s C-130 upgrade program. The work comprises the replacement of the aircraft’s centre wing sections and a comprehensive avionics and self defence system upgrade. Work on the upgrade of the five aircraft had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Construction of first BAMS Global Hawk starts</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:41:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Northrop Grumman has commenced construction of the fuselage of the first MQ-4C Broad Area Maritime Surveillance (BAMS) version of the Global Hawk UAS at its Moss Point, Mississippi facility. The fuselage will be delivered to Northrop Grumman’s final assembly line at Palmdale in California early next year where it will be mated to the wings, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LockMart tests new Hellfire</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:35:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lockheed Martin has successfully tested the latest version of its Hellfire air-to-surface missile range, the AGM-1114R ‘Romeo’. The new model features a multi-purpose warhead which covers the entire target set of the Hellfire range, rather than the previous need for dedicated blast fragmentation or anti-armour (HEAT) versions, and a UAS operator or helicopter pilot can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Defence charter contract cleared of irregularities</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 03:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A contract awarded to Adagold Aviation for the provision of transport services to the ADF has been cleared of any irregularities following allegations by incumbent, Strategic Aviation, that Adagold received inside information on the tender requirements, The Age reports. Strategic had questioned what role former Strategic manager and SkyAirWorld CEO David Charlton had played in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RAF’s first A330 MRTT rolled out</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 02:44:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first Airbus A330 MRTT for the RAF’s Future Strategic Tanker Aircraft (FSTA) program has been rolled out of its hangar at Getafe near Madrid in Spain. The aircraft, the first of 14 A330s on order under a complex commercial lease arrangement, will be subject to ground tests prior to first flight sometime in September. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Switzerland postpones F-5E replacement program</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 02:42:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The long running program to replace Switzerland’s ageing fleet of F-5E/F Tiger II fighters has again been postponed due to budgetary constraints. The decision was announced just days before the decision on the successful replacement was due, with the Eurofighter Typhoon, Saab Gripen and Dassault Rafale in contention to fulfil the 22 aircraft requirement.]]></description>
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		<title>USAF inducts first LRIP AMP C-130</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 02:40:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The USAF has inducted the first of 20 C-130s into its Warner Robins Air Logistics Center in Georgia to be upgraded under the Avionics Modernisation Program (AMP). The AMP includes glass cockpits that include a head-up display, six flat panel full colour displays, and night vision capability based on off-the-shelf components common to the commercial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BAMS Global Hawk given MQ-4C designation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 08:14:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The US Navy’s Broad Area Maritime Surveillance (BAMS) version of the Global Hawk UAV has been given the designation MQ-4C. Based on the Block 20 RQ-4B airframe, the MQ-4C features a 360 degree maritime radar and other sensor and communications enhancements for the maritime mission. The RAAF plans to acquire between six and eight Global [...]]]></description>
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