Commander of the Indonesian Air Force, Air Marshal Agus Supriatna, has ordered all nine of its NAS-332 helicopters to be grounded pending inspection.
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Category: Industry
TAI kicks off T70 license production program
A press release from Lockheed Martin says Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) has “activated contractual agreements under the Turkish Utility Helicopter Program (TUHP) to produce the T70 utility helicopter.”
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Development work on KF-X’s radar to start next month
Hanwha Thales said it will start work to develop the active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar for South Korea’s Korean Fighter Experimental (KF-X) program next month.
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Source: KAI
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Lockheed Martin union to go for strike vote
Around 2,600 Lockheed Martin workers at its Fort Worth facility will soon decide whether give leaders of the International Association of Machinist and Aerospace Workers District Lodge 776 the authority to call a strike as the current contract between the aerospace giant and the union expires next month.
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Belarus to buy Su-30SM
Belarusian Defense Minister Andrei Ravkov confirmed to RIA Novosti that Minsk intends to buy the Su-30SM fighter from Irkut.
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