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G2 Solutions @ December 30, 2009 # No Comment Yet
All signs point to a real but painfully slow recovery over the next five years. 2009 marked significant progress with several key programs, but collectively they can only be best described as “almost there”.
The Boeing 787 is almost there. At least signs are pointing in the right direction. Flight testing is now [...]
G2 Solutions @ December 30, 2009 # No Comment Yet
This Story from SpaceWar.com chronicles the MQ-8 program’s continued testing, with this specific series (assumed SAR and EO/IR) serving as a maritime and counternarcotics demonstration. Initial MQ-8B feedback relayed to G2 Solutions is very positive regarding MQ-8B enhancements in surface-combatant situational awareness, and the Coast Guard and counternarcotics missions seem ideal for a manned-unmanned teaming [...]
G2 Solutions @ December 30, 2009 # No Comment Yet
This story from Graham Warwick:
Afghan ISR Airship Gets the Nod
and this from avweek archives:
Lockheed Martin’s Secretly Built Airship Makes First Flight
G2 Solutions @ December 23, 2009 # No Comment Yet
A naval variant of Gripen is reportedly under consideration for the Indian and Brazilian navies.
SAAB comercializa o Gripen Naval para a Índia e o Brasil
G2 Solutions @ December 22, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Brazilian Decision on Jet Fighters Unlikely Before 2011
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil has postponed a decision on buying 36 jet fighters from any of the three rival bidders until early spring 2010 at the very earliest in a move analysts interpret as part of a strategy to extract maximum advantage over Brazil’s [...]
G2 Solutions @ December 21, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Some much needed perspective on this blow out of proportion story:
Deptula whacks Predator hack worries
I had a scheduled interview with Lt Gen David Deptula this morning, so I asked the US Air Force deputy chief of staff for intelligence, surveillance and reconaissance for his thoughts about Predator-gate (aka, the Wall Street Journal’s scoop yesterday [...]
G2 Solutions @ December 21, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Aviation Week:
Ryanair has scrapped earlier plans to order up to 200 Boeing 737-800s, a deal that should have been a major boost for Boeing at the bottom of the economic cycle.
Bloomberg:
Ryanair Halts Boeing Purchase, Abandons Growth Plan
Flight:
Ryanair walks away from discussions on 200-aircraft order
IAG Blog
MOL at his finest
G2 Solutions @ December 21, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Pierre Sparaco:
The investigation continues, while taking on new portions.
BEA, the French accident investigation bureau, is about to issue an international call for bids, as the prelude to an unprecedented effort to find the wreckage of the Air France Airbus A330-200, which crashed into the Atlantic on June 1. The cause of the loss of flight [...]
G2 Solutions @ December 18, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Stephen Trimble reports:
The US House of Representatives has passed a $636.4 billion defence spending bill that rescues the F-35 alternate engine and Boeing C-17 from termination threats, plus restores funding for the Boeing F/A-18E/F, RQ-4 Global Hawk and E-2D Advanced Hawkeye.
USAF Photo
G2 Solutions @ December 18, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Flight
All of the Airbus and EADS executives accused of insider trading during a long-running investigation have been cleared by the French stock exchange regulator Autorite des Marches Financiers.
Bloomberg
Seventeen current and former European Aeronautic Defence and Space Co. executives were cleared by France’s market regulator of trading on inside information about delays to the Airbus A380, [...]
G2 Solutions @ December 17, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Bill Sweetman writes:
It may have all started in 2005 when Northrop Grumman proposed an X-47C with very long endurance, a 10,000-pound-plus weapon load and a 172-foot wingspan, the same as a B-2. The idea was to match extreme endurance with a “deep magazine” – a large and diverse weapon load for multiple attacks on different [...]
G2 Solutions @ December 17, 2009 # No Comment Yet
According to a reliable French blog, RAF typhoons, Dassault Rafales and LMT F-22s did indeed face off on several occasions during last month’s ATLC in the UAE. As we are still awaiting for the sacrament of confirmation about this news, the website has chosen to selectively highlight very positive events for Rafales, as apparently reported [...]
G2 Solutions @ December 16, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Weapons integration and testing continue on the Army’s MQ-1C Sky Warrior UAV. This story from Guy Norris at Aviation Week outlines the progress in testing the Hellfire as an ultimate means to enable Army to Find, Fix and Finish from a growing number of platforms. The idea here is ability to engage targets of opportunity, [...]
G2 Solutions @ December 16, 2009 # No Comment Yet
G2 Solutions @ December 15, 2009 # No Comment Yet
London Times reports:
The RAF’s fleet of 11 Nimrod surveillance aircraft, one of which catastrophically burst into flames killing 14 servicemen in Afghanistan in 2006, is to be withdrawn from service by March next year as part of a range of defence cuts announced today.
Bob Ainsworth, the Defence Secretary, denied that [...]
