Lockheed Gaming Out F-35 Lifecycle Costs
Lockheed brought an F-35 mockup, not the real thing, to Farnborough. (Defense News photo by Bradley Peniston)
By JOHN REED, FARNBOROUGH, UK – Lockheed Martin is conducting “international sustainment war games” for the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter, company vice president and general manager for F-35 programs Tom Burbage announced during a July 19 press conference here. The “games” are part of the company’s effort to predict the jet’s total lifecycle costs in excruciating detail, according to Burbage.
A400M Costing Builders 100M Euros Monthly
By PIERRE TRAN, FARNBOROUGH, UK – EADS and Airbus Military must pay hundreds of million of euros to pay for work on the A400M airlifter as long the seven client countries have not signed a financing deal agreed earlier this year, company executives said.General Atomics Pitches Unarmed Predator to Africa, Middle East
By JOHN REED, FARNBOROUGH, UK – General Atomics has begun talking with a variety of countries in North Africa and the Middle East about the sale of an export version of the original Predator drone, a company officials said here.Brazil To Buy 28 Embraer KC-390s
By ANDREW CHUTER, FARNBOROUGH, UK – The Brazilian air force says it is to purchase an initial batch of 28 KC-390 airlifters from the machine’s developer, Embraer.UK Exports Rise 70% in 2009
By ANDREW CHUTER, FARNBOROUGH, UK – In opposition, Britain’s new Conservative-led government was all for returning the state’s defense and security export organization to the control of the Ministry of Defence. Now you hear little of any plan to pull it out of the business ministry and put it back in the MoD, from where it was unceremoniously removed in 2008 by the then-Labour-Prime Minister Gordon Brown.Algeria Buys 30 AgustaWestland Helicopters
By TOM KINGTON, FARNBOROUGH, UK – Details have emerged at the Farnborough Air Show of a sale of 30 helicopters of various types, including the AW139, by AgustaWestland to Algeria for parapublic use.India Nears New Order of BAE Hawks
By ANDREW CHUTER, FARNBOROUGH, UK – Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron travels to India next week for talks with the New Delhi government. One of the things the two sides are expected to announce during his stay is a contract for a further tranche of BAE Systems Hawk jet trainers.More Show Scout Headlines
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