David Donald
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Paris 2011: Chinese Chengdu J-20 Fighter Still Shrouded in Mystery

Nearly a year after the Sukhoi T-50 made its first flight, another fifth-generation fighter program made its debut, in the form of Chengdu’s J-20.
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Paris 2011: Armed Saab 2000 on Offer to India

Saab is offering a version of its 2000 MPA (maritime patrol aircraft) to the Indian navy to answer that service’s medium-range, maritime reconnaissance (MR

Paris 2011: Controp Launches New Payloads

Israeli sensor specialist Controp Precision Technologies (Hall 3 C17) is displaying a range of its advanced electro-optic/infrared/laser payloads, includin
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Paris 2011: Elop To Play MUSIC in Italy

As the culmination of a jointly funded cooperation program between Italian electronics house Elettronica and the Elop business of Elbit Systems, the Isra
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Paris 2011: BAE Systems Tests ‘Brownout’ Landing Aid in U.S. Army Helicopter

One of the biggest dangers facing helicopter crews around the world, and in current operational theaters in particular, is “brownout.” Rotor downwash can

Paris 2011: MBDA Has India in Its Sights for Fire-and-forget Missile

MBDA Deutschland conducted three firing trials of its PARS 3 LR fire-and-forget precision missile in late April as part of its campaign to sell the weapo
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Paris 2011: Need for Interim Helmet for F-35 Pilots May Be Decided in August

The F-35 Joint Program Office is faced with making a decision on whether to procure an interim helmet/display to use with standard night-vision goggles.

Paris 2011: Saab’s Gripen Demo Shows Off Upgrades and Modifications

The Saab Gripen Demo, a two-seat technology demonstrator, is one month into its latest phase of a trials campaign aimed at showing off technologies and mod
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Paris 2011: Embraer Looking at a Stretched KC-390 Freighter

Embraer is looking at the possibility of a stretched civil version of its

Paris 2011: IAI’s Small, Electrically Powered UAVs Take Off and Land Vertically

On display in the IAI corral outside the Israeli Pavilion are two of the company’s latest concepts for providing observation capability.

Paris 2011: Hawker Beechcraft Unveils Special-mission King Air 350ER

Hawker Beechcraft is displaying for the first time the latest addition to the company’s customer demonstration fleet, a King Air 350ER configured to highli
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Paris 2011: MBDA lifts wraps on new missile concept

Multi-national missile developer and manufacturer MBDA showed off the results of its second concept—visions initiative—the CVS 401 Perseus.

Paris 2011: Liebherr Joins KC-390 Team

Embraer Defense and Security has selected

Paris 2011: L-3 on Provides Standby Instruments for Citation Ten Business Jet and Boeing Ffighters

L-3’s Avionics Systems (Static F 186) continues its success in the field of providing electronic standby instrument systems (ESIS) with further selections
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Paris 2011: Ktech Acquisition Boosts Raytheon’s Capability in Directed-energy Weapons

Raytheon last week completed the acquisition of the key business assets of Ktech, an Albuquerque, New Mexico-based company that specializes in pulsed power

Paris 2011: Raytheon Targeting Infrared Countermeasure Products for U.S. Army and Air Force

Raytheon has used its missile experience to develop an infrared countermeasures (IRCM) capability that is vying to provide a LAIRCM (large-aircraft IRCM) s
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Paris 2011: Terprom for A400M

EADS Cassidian has selected Goodrich’s Terprom terrain-refe
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Paris 2011: Next-generation Hawk vies for export sales

BAE Systems brings its Hawk Advanced Jet Trainer (AJT)
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Paris 2011: Laser AASM hammers moving targets

One of the most important weapons development programs here in France is the INS/GPS+laser-guided variant of

Paris 2011: India Selects Pilatus PC-7 for Urgent Trainer Requirement

India has selected the Pilatus PC-7 Mk II to answer its requirement for a basic trainer.
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Paris 2011: Smart bomb heads IAI line-up

Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) is showing off its latest precision-guided munition here at Le Bourget.

Paris 2011: Iron Dome quickly proves its worth

Having been developed in some urgency, Rafael’s Iron Dome dual-mission defense system is now operational, and in April an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) batte

Paris 2011: Raytheon develops missile for small UAVs

Raytheon’s growing portfolio of precision munitions is to expand with the development of a new smart missile to arm small UAVs that are current unable to c
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Paris 2011: Elbit Capabilities on Show

Israel’s Elbit Systems has announced a number of important developments in recent weeks, covering a range of the company’s diverse capabilities.

Paris 2011: Typhoon helmet nears front line

Typhoon pilots with Britain’s Royal Air Force will soon be flying with a helmet-mounted system that will significantly increase their situational awareness