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Dan Parsons
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Navy/USMCUPDATED: Half of US V-22s Can’t Fly And That Won’t Improve ‘Soon Enough’
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Just over half of the U.S. military’s V-22 Ospreys are ready to fly missions at any given time and the service doesn’t plan to hit its […]
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Navy/USMCConfident in Twin-Engine Pitch, Airbus Readies For Navy Trainer Production
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Conspicuously absent from the show floor at the Navy League’s annual Sea-Air-Space Conference was the Airbus H135, given that its main competitors to build the Navy’s […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Seeks More Foreign Poseidon Partners As P-8 Deliveries Near End
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Approaching the U.S. Navy’s final planned buy of Boeing [BA] P-8 Poseidons in 2020, 169 of the multimission maritime aircraft have been sold across seven countries. […]
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Navy/USMCV-22 Program Seeks Savings In Foreign Customers, But 2020 Deadline Looms
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.–Having Japan as a foreign military sales partner on the V-22 could end up saving the U.S. government $60 million or more over the life of the program, […]
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Navy/USMCLeonardo’s Navy Trainer To Gain Instrument-Flight Certification Within the Month
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Leonardo Helicopters has completed flights of its single-engine TH-119 necessary for instrument flight rules certification and should gain FAA approval in coming weeks. If successful, the […]
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Navy/USMCMarine Corps Sticking With CH-53K Program, Ironing Out Deficiencies
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — As the Marine Corps prepares to award a contract for the first lot of Sikorsky [LMT] CH-53K King Stallions, the military service said on May 6 […]
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InternationalCzechs Cleared to Buy More Than $1 Billion in Attack, Utility Helicopters
The State Department has cleared the Czech Republic to buy more than $1 billion in Bell [TXT] AH-1Z attack helicopters and Sikorsky [LMT] UH-60 Black Hawks. Larger of the two […]
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Navy/USMCNorthrop Grumman’s New Navigation Substitute Works Where GPS Won’t, Company Says
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — The business case for Northrop Grumman‘s [NOC] assured position, navigation and timing (A-PNT) solution is tricky, on its face — GPS is better, and as long […]
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InternationalPoland Signs Contract with Leonardo Helicopters for Four AW101s
Amid a military modernization effort by Poland to counter possible Russian revanchism, the Polish Military of Defense has signed a more than $424 million contract with Leonardo Helicopters for four […]
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ArmyBoeing Finished Six Wind Tunnel Tests on Compound Apache in January
In January, as planned, Boeing [BA] completed a series of six wind tunnel tests on a 30 percent scale model of an AH-64E Block II compound helicopter, which the company says […]