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Dan Gillian, Boeing’s program manager for the F/A-18 and EA-18G, told Economic Times that his company had done simulations of the Super Hornet taking off from a ski jump and the aircraft can be launched with a ‘significant’ payload.
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Qatar was supposed to make the first payment for its order of 24 Eurofighters in order to cement the deal but the Gulf state has failed to do so.
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Senior executives from Boeing and Saab have indicated that their companies are taking a close look at the newly-unveiled Tempest fighter program and are interested in participating.
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Marcus Weisgerber reports on Defense One that Boeing is quietly peddling a new variant of its F-15, dubbed F-15X, to the Pentagon.
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BAE Systems will supply new flight control computers to Lockheed Martin for the upgrade of UAE’s F-16 fleet. In a separate news, Raytheon will design, develop and manufacture the projector for BAE Systems’ Digital Light Engine (DLE) Head-Up Display (HUD) that will go into UAE’s F-16s.
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