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Features:

• No Comms - No Bombs - US Air Force Tests New Initiatives to Improve Connectivity, Procedures Pursuing Time Sensitive Targets
• Keeping the Old Horses Flying
  How the US Air Force Combat Command plans to Maintain its 'Shooters' Effective for Years to Come (By Tamir Eshel)
• Arming Attack Helicopters for Asymmetric Warfare
• Paris Air Show 2007 - Exhibition Review
• AUVSI 2007 Exhibition Report

May 2008

• Automatic Target Recognition by Radar Could improve Air Support
• Singapore Selects Sniper Targeting Pods for its New F-16s

March 2008

• GE-Rolls Royce Team Test Prototype F136 Engine Tests
• European METEOR Missile Test Fired over Sweden
• Boeing, Raytheon Awarded $130 Million to Upgrade Radars on Eight F-15Cs
• Australia cancells the SH-2G(A) SeaSprite Helicopter Program

February 2008:

• US Air Force Selects KC-45A as KC-135 Replacement
• Sukhoi's Su-35 Performs First Flight
• EPX - Studying a Future SIGINT Platform for the US Navy
• Finland Equips Upgraded F/A-18 with Litening AT Targeting Pods
• Typhoon Operators to Receive Improved Simulators

January 2008

• Boeing, Lockheed Martin Team to Study the Next generation USAF Bomber
• First Locally Modified Boeing 737 Wedgetail AEW Aircraft Flys in Australia
• SOCOM Funds a Defensive Weapon for the Osprey
• Canada Orders 17 C-130Js for $1.4 Billion
• Datalink Enhanced TARS Recce System Demonstrates Real-Time Advantage
• First Tranche 2 Eurofighter Typhoon Takes Off
• RAF Upgrades Tornados, Harriers with Aerial Datalinks
• U.S. Offers JDAMs to Saudi Arabia
• General Corley: "The Long-Term Future of the F-15 is in Question"
• Northrop Grumman Leads an Industry Team Pursuing Army ACS
• American Airlines, BAE Systems to test the JETEYE on Passenger Aircraft
• Saudi Arabia Orders Three A330 Tankers

December 2007

• Morocco Considers F-16C/D As Part of a $2.4 Package
• Switzerland Plans an Upgrade for the F/A-18s
• Russian Bombers Continue Long Range Patrols
• Israel Considers Reducing F-35 Buy to Address F-15/16 Upgrades
• F-35 in the Air… Again
• Malaysia Considers Increasing Su-30MKM Buy
• Spain Orders Spike ER Missiles for its Tiger Attack Helicopters
• Would Libya Become the First Foreign User of the Rafale?
• Pentagon Plans to Equip Saudi F-15Es with Sniper Pods
• Laser Equipped C-130H Prepared for Flight Testing in 2008
• India Cancelled Plans to Buy Light Helicopters from Eurocopter
• Saab Promotes Gripen in Denmark Offering Industrial Incentives
• Eurofighter, BAE Sign Production Order for 72 Saudi Typhoons
• German Luftwaffe to Modernize Targeting Pods

November 2007

• Aviation and Unmanned Systems at AUSA 2007
• RAF Typhoon Demonstrates PGM Attack for the First Time
• Air Combat Training Heat Up over Asia
• Reapers Gather in the Afghan Sky
• Advanced Technology for Future Vertical Lift

October 2007

• Iran Expects to Receive 24 Chinese J-10 Fighters by 2010
• Russia, Saudi Arabia Finalize a Multi-Billion Arms Deal
• Boeing Orders More Helmet Displays from VSI
• Upgraded US Navy Hawkeyes Could Enhance Egypt's AEW Fleet
• Singapore Exercises an Option to Buy for Additional Strike eagles

September 2007

• New Class of Close Support UCAVs
• Review of the latest UAV trends at AUVSI 2007
• High Altitude Long Endurance (HALE) Platforms
• US Navy's Broad Area Maritime Surveillance Program
• Proxy Aviation to Offer Tactical Armed UAV
• Excalibur - a Close Support UCAV from Aurora

August 2007

• RAF Receives First Block 5 Typhoons
• 6.3 billions in Multiyear Awards Complete Funding for 183 Raptors
• Italian Air Force Recieves its First Block 5 Enhanced Typhoon
• US Navy Awards UCAS-D Demonstration Contract to Northrop Grumman

July 2007

• F/A-18 AESA Radar Enters Full Rate Production
• US-German Cooperation Focus on AARGM Advanced Radar Killer

June 2007

• Eurocopter Integrates Hellfire II on French Tiger Helicopter
• India, US to Conclude $1 Billion Worth Super Hercules Deal

May 2007

• US Navy to Test SHARP with Hyperspectral Capability
• EADS Accelerates UH-72A Production
• Sikorsky Selects CH-53K Fuselage Supplier Team
• Obstacle Avoidance radar for Military Helicopters
• New USAF UAV Wing Tasked With Global Recce & Strike
• Singapore to Replace Hawkeye With G550 AEW
• Greece Selects Goodrich's DB-110 Recce Pods for its New F-16s
• General Atomics to Develop 'Block X' Predator for the USAF

April 2007

• US Air Force Embarks on a Composite Transport X-Plane
• V-22 Ospreys to Deploy to Iraq by September 2007
• VSI's Helmet Mounted Display System Flys on JSF
• India Plans to Expand AEW Capability
• New Helicopter Gunships for Russian Special Forces
• 18 Additional Longbow Apaches For the US Army
• EO Turrets for the British Army's Future Lynx
• L-3 Integrated Systems Selected for Nimrod R1 Upgrade
• Green Light for New Typhoon Capabilities
• More battlefield helicopters for the UK Armed Forces
• Turkey Selects Italian A-129 for Future Attack Helicopter
• F-22 Raptor To Get Upgraded Radar

March 2007

• GAO Recommends Limiting Annual Production of JSF
• Indian AF Embarks on a $800 Million MiG-29 Upgrade
• P&W Selected to Power Boeing KC-767 Advanced Tanker
• EADS's Obstacle Warning for German Police Helicopters
• RAF Deploys Litening III with Iraq based Tornado GR4
• F-22A Begins SDB Weapon Integration Test Flights
• Additional Arrowheads for US Army Apaches
• Australia Launches A$6 Billion Super Hornet Acquisition
• Kuwait Receives Initial AH-64D Longbow Helicopters
• Sikorsky Unveils S-92 SAR Model Destined for the UK
• Absent New Orders, Boeing May Terminate C-17 Line
• X-2 Technology - a Major Pillar for Sikorsky's Future
• Norwegian Orions to be Extended for Additional 25 Years

February 2007

• DRS Gets $20 Million to Work on Silent Knight Radar
• Sniper Targeting Pods for RAF Harrier GR9s
• Indian Air Force to Induct PHALCON AEW This Year
• Bundeswehr Launches €520 CH-53 Helicopter Upgrade
• Netherlands Orders 6 CH-47F (NL) From Boeing
• Latest Typhoon Passes NATO Agency Certification
• F-35 Litening II Flight Testing Progress Detailed
• Boeing Introduces KC-X Team
• Saab is Pursuing Norwegian-Swedish Cooperation
• Air National Guard Releases C-130J Operational Data
• Northrop to Bid for the USAF KC-x Tanker Program
• Canada Orders Four C-17 Globemaster III from Boeing
• AC-130U Gunship Rearmed With 30mm Guns
• Norway, Turkey, Italy Join JSF Development Pact

January 2007

• US Air Force Publishes Next Generation Tanker RFP
• India Destined MiG-29K Makes First Flight in Russia
• India, Russia Ink Next Generation Fighter Aircraft Cooperation
• Boeing to Upgrade Additional 126 AH-64D Apaches
• Greece To Receive 12 AH-64D Longbows This Year
• Patriot PAC-3 Missiles To Equip Fighter Aircraft?
• F-16 Recce Pod Completes Flight Tests
• Republic of Korea Shops for More Multi-role Fighters
• 700 new Air/Air Missiles for the Pakistani Air Force
• US Air Force Launches Joint STARS Enhancement
• AESA Radars To Offer Common Datalink Interoperability
• Italian Air Force Receives First C-27J
• AESA Radars To Offer Common Datalink Interoperability
• Italian Air Force Receives First C-27J
• SOCOM Launches Silent Knight Radar Development
• BRITE Stars for the Armed Reconnaissance Helicopters
• US Marine Corps' Prowlers to Get Litening 'Eyes'
• Sikorsky Aircraft to Acquire PZL Mielec
• F-35 Speeds to Mach 0.7 on Second Flight
• USAF Awards $256 Million for E-10A development
• US Air Force, Marines to get More Litenings
• BAE Systems' Advanced Emitter location Capability
• China Publicly Unveil J-10 Fighter
• US Army Orders New and Upgraded Chinooks
• Russia to Modernize Five Serbian Air Force MiG-29s

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2007 features: (more 2006 news)

• Arming Attack Helicopters for Asymmetric Warfare
• Paris Air Show 2007 - Exhibition Review
• AUVSI 2007 Exhibition Report

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