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Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, March 31, 2017

VOL. 259 NO. 63 March 31, 2017

Programs

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USAF Wants Return To ‘Century Series’ Glory Days

Mar 30, 2017
The USAF is trying to unshackle itself from the typical all-or-nothing way of buying stealth fighters and return to the glory days of the “Century Series.”
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Leonardo Would Build T-100 At New Alabama Site

Mar 30, 2017
If Leonardo wins the coveted U.S. Air Force contract for the next-generation T-X trainer, the T-100 would be built at a new facility in Alabama.
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Airbus Scraps Electric Light Aircraft For Bigger E-FanX

Mar 30, 2017
Airbus has dropped plans to produce the E-Fan family of electric light aircraft and instead is working on the larger and more powerful E-Fan X, which could fly within three years.
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V-22 May Get Forward-Firing Gun, Precision Rockets – And Lasers?

Mar 29, 2017
Boeing is looking to turn its V-22 Osprey into a mini gunship with a large, forward-firing gun, precision-guided rockets, and possibly even laser weapons.
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Norway Signs Deal For Five Boeing P-8s

Mar 30, 2017
The Norwegian government has signed off on a contract to purchase five Boeing P-8 Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft.
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Spacewalk Tees Up Second Commercial Crew Docking Port

Mar 30, 2017
Two NASA astronauts finished configuration of the Pressurized Mating Adapter-3 outside the ISS’s U.S. segment Node-2 Harmony module during a spacewalk.

SpeedNews Defense & Space

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SpeedNews Defense & Space

Mar 31, 2017
EPI has in-service support agreement with Malaysian government for the AIRBUS A400M military transport aircraft’s TP400 turboprop engines through October 2017. NORTHROP GRUMMAN has $33.7m U.S. Army contract for continued software development, training, maintenance of the Counter-Rocket, Artillery Mortar command and control system through March 31, 2018.

Funding & Policy

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Will U.S. Air Force’s Proposal To Retire F-15 Fare Better Than A-10 Or U-2?

Mar 31, 2017
Convincing Congress to retire an aircraft is rarely easy, but the U.S. Air Force may fare better in its attempt to retire the F-15 in favor of the F-16 than it did with earlier efforts to retire the U-2 or A-10, according to former Air Force Secretary Whit Peters. The A-10 battle, Peters says, was complicated by what he describes as an “historic feeling that the Air Force never really supported close air support.” Unlike those fights, the Air Force has been able to reduce numbers of aircraft such as the C-5, Peters says.

Operations

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U.S. Africa Command Wary Of China’s New Djibouti Base

Mar 28, 2017
As global superpowers jostle for influence on the African continent, the U.S. military is having to learn to share Djibouti with China.

Forecast Friday

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Worldwide Western C4ISR Aircraft Retirements 2017-2026

Mar 31, 2017
AVIATION WEEK NETWORK forecasts a total of 121 Western-designed C4ISR (command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance & reconnaissance) aircraft will retire from 2017 to 2026.