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Lockheed Martin expects to receive a contract next year to start low-rate production of a new turret for the Modernized Target Acquisition Designation Sight/Pilot Night Vision Sensor (M-TADS/PNVS) system on the AH-64D/E.
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An administrative error resulted in the British Ministry of Defense paying an extra £829,000 in salary to around 200 serving and retired Army helicopter crew over the last decade. The move by the Ministry to recover back the money has resulted in at least 15 pilots tendering in their resignation letters.
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Japan’s Defense Ministry has lifted the ban for women to fly the AH-1S and AH-64D attack helicopters in the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF).
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Sometime later this year, the U.S. Air Force will start converting 21 UH-60Ls from the Army into HH-60G Pave Hawks. A total of $372 million had been spent so far developing and purchasing modification kits for the conversion.
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By Tim Felce (Airwolfhound) (HH60 Pave Hawk – American Air Day Duxford) [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
At the hearing for the House Armed Services Committee’s subcommittee on tactical air and land forces, Army Lt. Gen. Michael E. Williamson told lawmakers that a replacement for C-12 and C-26 aircraft is projected to be selected and begin fielding in fiscal year 2018.
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