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Singapore Air Show 2010: Elbit prepares to flight-test new F-16 display system

A mock-up of the high-resolution colour display that Elbit has developed to be retrofitted to the global legacy F-16 fleet (IHS Jane's/Gareth Jennings)

The 'plug and play' system should be ready to fly aboard a testbed F-16 "within the next couple of months"

03 February 2010

Singapore Air Show 2010: Boeing pins hopes on revived Bronco

The company could have a flying prototype ready within nine months

05 February 2010

JSF: weighing up the partner nation benefits

Despite bestowing undoubted benefits on participants, the US-led JSF programme cannot be regarded as a collaboration of equals

01 February 2010

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Reverted Chinooks enter UK service

One of the RAF's newly reverted HC.3 Chinook during its official unveiling at RAF Odiham. The HC.3 is distinguishable from the HC.2/2A in that it has fatter fuel tanks and a pointed nose (IHS Jane's)

The RAF revealed the first two of its reverted Chinook fleet at RAF Odiham

15 January 2010

NATO debates creation of new special operations air wing

NATO considers establishing a new special operations air wing

28 January 2010

Boeing hands over last KC-767 tanker to Japan

The Japanese Air Self-Defense Force has nearly finished its operational evaluation of its KC-767 fleet

22 January 2010

Patria modernises Finnish Hawk trainers

Patria has won a USD57 million deal to upgrade the Hawk trainers

20 January 2010

US Air Force deploys Global Hawk to aid Haiti relief efforts

A Block 10 RQ-4 Global Hawk UAV departed from Beale Air Force Base in California on 13 January

18 January 2010

A400M remains in limbo

The A400M No 1 (MSN0001) at Airbus Military's facility in Seville, Spain, on 12 January, its flight-test grounded by the weather (IHS Jane's/P Felstead)

EADS is urging the partner nations in the A400M programme to renegotiate the contract by 31 January

14 January 2010

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A400M cancellation would damage UK aerospace industry, warns SBAC chief

Switzerland fighter replacement appears set for indefinite delay

The Swiss Federal Council was asked to divert the funds into the cash-strapped army instead

07 January 2010

India cancels tanker transport tender

The Indian MoD dispatched a cryptic letter to EADS in New Delhi on 4 January withdrawing the tender

08 January 2010

Russians rebuff NATO's call for Afghan helicopter support

Russia has not responded to a NATO request for helicopters in support of the Afghanistan war effort

21 December 2009

Nigeria receives first ATR 42MP from Alenia Aeronautica

The second aircraft is being converted and will be delivered next year

16 December 2009

USAF C-5Ms achieve OT&E milestone

The aircraft performed 31 days of continuous cargo delivery sorties from Dover AFB to Incirlik Air Base in Turkey without refuelling

11 December 2009

Typhoon helmet cleared for operational use

The helmet is expected to be in operational use with frontline pilots by the end of the third quarter of 2010

15 December 2009