Combat aircraft

This image: Upgraded to

DARIN I standard, Jaguar

JT059 from No 27 Squadron

conducts a touch-and-go.

Angad Singh

Inset: One of No 1 Squadron’s

upgraded Mirage 2000TI

 ghters performs a missed

approach on the highway

strip. Angad Singh

JAPANESE ADVANCED

HAWKEYE FLIES

THE FIRST E2D for the Japan

Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF)

conducted its maiden  ight at

Northrop Grumman’s aircraft

integration center of excellence in

St Augustine, Florida on October 9.

The JASDF has ordered two E-2Ds

that will be delivered in 2018.

Northrop Grumman

INDIA SEEKS ISR AIRCRAFT

INDIA IS MOVING forward with

plans to acquire two intelligence,

surveillance, target acquisition and

reconnaissance aircraft from Raytheon

under the Foreign Military Sales (FMS)

program at a cost of around $1 billion.

The move was con rmed when a

formal letter of request was sent to the

US Department of Defense in October.

The aircraft will reportedly be similar

to the Royal Air Force’s Sentinel R1.

Tom Kaminski

FINAL EC135 DELIVERED

TO AUSTRALIA

THE FINAL AIRBUS Helicopters

EC135T2+ training helicopter for

the Helicopter Aircrew Training

System (HATS) project was recently

delivered to Boeing in Australia.

The helicopters are being used to

train Royal Australian Navy and

Australian Army students at HMAS

Albatross under a project that is

managed by Boeing Australia.

Although the last helicopters for the

project were produced in November

2016, the  nal aircraft was retained

in Germany where it received a

prototype air conditioning system

that will be  tted to the rest of the

EC135s. The  eet has already  own

more than 1,200 hours in Australia

and  rst-of-class  ight trials were

recently conducted aboard the

multi-role aviation-training vessel

MV Sycamore. In addition, the  rst

conversion training course for

Boeing and Australian Defence

Force (ADF) instructors has been

completed and training of the pilot

and aircrew instructors is well under

way. Tom Kaminski

EC1352+ callsign ‘Taipan 4-2’ in the vicinity of the waters of Jervis Bay,

New South Wales. POIS Kelvin Hockey/Commonwealth of Australia

http://www.combataircraft.net January 2018

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