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A Marinha da Bolívia a investir para ultrapassar a Suíça.

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AgustaWestland  AW101



AgustaWestland AW109



AgustaWestland AW139

Algeria signs agreement to produce Leonardo-Finmeccanica helicopters

http://itweb.co.za/mobilesite/defenceweb/home/item_id-44690/

The establishment of an Algerian factory to produce Leonardo-Finmeccanica helicopters has moved a step forward with the signing of a memorandum of understanding on the new joint venture.

The agreement was signed on 11 August in Algiers (...)

The new facility will be built at the Ain Amat site in Setif province and will assemble light to medium helicopters such as the AW109, AW139 and AW 101. "From the first year and following the construction of the plant, the main objective of the company is to manufacture three types of light and medium helicopters  for various use including the transport of personnel and cargo, medical evacuation, surveillance and control", the ministry of defense said in a statement.

Algeria will own 51% of the helicopter manufacturing facility and Leonardo-Finmeccanica the rest. (...)

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https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/scorpion-jet-selected-british-asdot-bid/?utm_source=FB&utm_medium=FacebookPage&utm_campaign=social

QinetiQ, Thales and Textron AirLand have announced a collaboration that will offer the Scorpion jet for the UK’s upcoming Air Support to Defence Operational Training programme.

According to a press release, the operational training activities that will comprise the ASDOT programme are currently fulfilled by a number of providers, both military and civilian. This team will propose an innovative, cost effective, technologically advanced reliable managed service using the Textron AirLand Scorpion jet equipped with Thales and QinetiQ sensors to provide a broad spectrum of training for all three armed services. The competitive contract, expected to be awarded in September 2018 with a service delivery start in Jan 2020, is anticipated to be worth up to £1.2bn over 15 years.

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http://www.aereo.jor.br/2016/08/18/argentina-entre-mirage-f1-usado-e-novo-master-m-346/

A Força Aérea Argentina não terá aviões de combate após 2018, pois os três caças A-4AR FightingHawk que permanecem operacionais serão desativados, de acordo com fontes do Ministério da Defesa argentino. No final de 2015, a administração cessante de Cristina Fernandez testemunhou o desmantelamento definitivo das poucas unidades operacionais do Mirage III de procedência francesa.

Com esta situação, o governo de Mauricio Macri está considerando opções, que incluem novos aviões italianos e até mesmo um esquadrão de Mirage F1 usados da França a serem fornecidos em condições muito generosas por Paris.

Um dos aviões cogitados é o Aermacchi M-346 Master da Itália, mas é considerado muito caro: US$ 30 milhões cada, mais um programa completamente novo de treinamento e ferramental.

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[Get_It]

Ainda à uns tempos falou-se nos C-130 da RNZAF no tópico do Programa de substituição do C-130:

"New Zealand Issues RFI for New Transport, Surveillance Aircraft"
(19 de Agosto de 2016)

New Zealand’s Ministry of Defence issued a request for information Aug. 18  for aircraft to ensure continued air mobility and air surveillance operations beyond 2020.

Currently the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) relies on a fleet of five Lockheed C-130H Hercules and two Boeing 757-200 Combi aircraft for air transport and six Lockheed P-3K2 Orions for air surveillance.

The first Hercules replacement is to be delivered by February 2020 to allow initial operational capability to be declared in February 2021, with full operational capability achieved by February 2024.

The first B757-200 replacement aircraft will be required by Feb. 1, 2025 to allow IOC to be declared one year later.

With regard to the P-3K2 Orions, their withdrawal from RNZAF service is planned for the ‘middle of the next decade,’ and the replacement is expected to deliver ‘at least the current rates of effort, between 2,500 to 3,200 hours of airborne operations per year.’

(...)

Fonte: http://www.defensenews.com/articles/nz-issues-rfi-fornew-transport-surveillance-aircraft

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[Vitor Santos]

Green Flag East 2016

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http://defence-blog.com/news/iran-eyeing-another-deal-with-russia-for-fighter-jets-after-the-successful-transfer-s-300-system.html

After the successful transaction and acceptance of the S-300 missile system from Russia, Iran is eyeing another deal for a huge number of aircraft.

That was reported by militaryway.weebly.com.

Before Iran was smacked with sanctions by the western nations there were talks of buying new fourth generation fighter aircraft from either Russia or China. There were continuous negotiations and official press notes being released that most of the details on the deal has been ironed out and only the technological challenges remain. Soon, after Iran got smacked with sanctions and all of their foreign accounts were frozen. Now after a long hiatus things look slightly better for Iran as the sanctions have been eased on them and their accounts unfrozen.

The deal is official as Iran’s defence minister General Hossein Dehghan said during an interview in the national television. There has been no timeline set for the commencement of deliveries or the number of fighters and would Iran contribute to the production of the fighters and in what stages. The Iran has a requirement for more than 200 hundred aircraft as majority of the aircraft in the air force is in pitiable condition due to the ageing of the air frames and the lack of spares due to western sanctions imposed after the revolution.

If the deal is concluded than Iran after Israel would have one of the most advanced and largest fourth generation fighter fleet in the middle east and can also pose a very serious threat to any future American operation in the region and also to other regional powers like the Saudis. Certain reports came up that Iran wants a custom built flanker like the Indians and Iran did ask New Delhi repeatedly for availability of certain technologies like MFD displays and a custom built mission computers although New Delhi seems reluctant to do so but it offered assistance in Pilot training and maintenance.

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Ukraine, China agree to jointly build new A-225 super-heavy transport aircraft
(31 de Agosto de 2016)

The Ukrainian state enterprise “Antonov” and Aviation Industry Corporation of China (abbreviated as AVIC) signed deals to cooperate on the construction of a new A-225 super-heavy transport aircraft based on An-225.

At the first stage, to produce second modernized An-225 “Mriya” aircraft at the production site of State Enterprise “Antonov” with its subsequent delivery to AVIC company. In the second phase plans establish production sites of the new A-225 heavy lift aircraft in China.

The Chinese group plans to build two production sites, one in Luzhou in Sichuan Province, and the second in Guigang which lies 300km west of Guangzhou.

The new A-225 manufatcured in China, of which the first could come out of the assembly line in early 2019, will be mainly used for cargo transportation.

(...)

Fonte: http://defence-blog.com/news/ukraine-china-agree-to-jointly-build-new-a-225-super-heavy-transport-aircraft.html

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[P44]

Algeria shows Mi-28NE helicopters for the first time

Jeremy Binnie, London - IHS Jane's Defence Weekly
31 August 2016


A still from Algerian television footage shows one of the country's new Mi-28NE attack helicopters. Source: Canal Algérie
The Algerian Ministry of National Defence (MDN) confirmed on 30 August that it has received its first Mil Mi-28NE Night Hunter attack helicopters when it released coverage of Chief-of-Staff Lieutenant General Ahmed Gaïd Salah inspecting Ain Oussera Air Base, 135 km south of Algiers.

Two Mi-28NEs were seen fitted with the optional N025E mast-mounted radars and pods for 87 mm S-8 rockets. Lt Gen Salah was also seen inspecting a launch tube for either a 9M114 Kokon or 9M120 Ataka air-to-surface missile.

The Russian media has reported that Algeria has ordered 42 Mi-48NE that, unlike the Russian Air Force ones, have dual controls that enable both crewmembers to pilot the aircraft. Algeria's El-Khabar newspaper reported on 17 August that six have been delivered so far.

http://www.janes.com/article/63338/algeria-shows-mi-28ne-helicopters-for-the-first-time

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Baltic Air Policing: French Mirage 2005 take over the Portuguese F-16 which were there since May

In parallel, four German Eurofighter have replaced four British Typhoon/Eurofighter

http://www.air-cosmos.com/baltic-air-policing-la-france-et-l-allemagne-prennent-le-relais-81893

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Os sul-africanos têm tido problemas com a falta de aeronaves de patrulha marítima, estando a força aérea a utilizar aviões C-47 e C-130H para essa missão.

Recentemente duas empresas vieram oferecer vender cinco aeronaves Dornier 328, cujo contrato de leasing com a Australian Maritime Safety Authority terminou e foram agora substituídas por aeronaves Challenger 604.

Good Order at Sea: South Africa’s Plan B

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[HSMW]

O novo AN-132 não terá componentes russos.

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http://www.aereo.jor.br/2016/09/13/boeing-revela-seu-treinador-t-x/

A Boeing acaba de revelar em St. Louis seu treinador T-X, feito em parceria com a Saab, que concorre para ser o novo treinador da USAF, no lugar do velho T-38 Talon.

A maior empresa aeroespacial do mundo enfrenta uma batalha com a Lockheed Martin, a Northrop Grumman e a Raytheon para o contrato de US$ 11 bilhões para produzir cerca de 350 jatos do programa treinador avançado T-X.

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[HSMW]

Boeing T-X: Advanced Pilot Training