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SP's MAI Issue No. 3 | February 1-15, 2016 - Aerospace Updates

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  AEROSPACE
  Russian Helicopters delivers 151 helicopters to India

  Russian Helicopters, part of state corporation Rostec, recently delivered the final batch of helicopters to India under a previously signed agreement. India received 151 Mi-17V-5 military transport helicopters produced by JSC Kazan Helicopters...

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  Egypt gets three more Rafale fighter jets

  Egyptian Air Force (EAF) received three Dassault Aviation-built Rafale fighter jets from France recently. This is the second batch of the jets to be dispatched as part of a $5-billion deal signed last year.

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  AEROSPACE
  Northrop to produce first Japanese E-2D Advanced Hawkeye

  Northrop Grumman Corporation recently received a US Navy contract modification for non-recurring engineering and recurring support to configure the first Japanese E-2D Advanced Hawkeye.

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  AEROSPACE
  P-8I aircraft deployed in Andaman and Nicobar Islands

  India has started to deploy long-range naval patrol aircraft Poseidon-8I and spy drones at the forward military base in Andaman and Nicobar Islands as part of its strategy to counter China’s move to regularly send its nuclear and conventional submarines to the IOR.

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  AEROSPACE
  HAL rolls out HTT-40 prototype

  Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) has rolled out the first prototype of HTT-40 with the aircraft sporting all the aircraft lights and powered on cockpit. T. Suvarna Raju, CMD, HAL said that the HTT-40 prototype efforts symbolises the renewed...

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  AEROSPACE / UNMANNED
  Heron-1 UAS reaches 70,000 operational flight hours in Afghanistan

  Israel Aerospace Industries’ (IAI) Heron-1 unmanned aerial system (UAS) recently marked its 70,000th flight hour in Afghanistan, after less than seven years of operation...

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  US soldiers bid farewell to this Army's oldest unmanned aircraft

  The US Army’s oldest unmanned aircraft system had its final flight here as part of a ceremony that marked transitions for both the aircraft and its operators, December 16.

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  Boeing gets $2.5-billion contract for 20 more P-8A Poseidon aircraft

  Boeing will further equip the US Navy and Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) with maritime patrol capabilities, building 20 more P-8A Poseidon aircraft following a $2.5-billion US Navy order announced recently.

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  AirMule completes its first autonomous flight

  On December 30, AirMule successfully completed its first autonomous, untethered flight at the Megiddo airfield in northern Israel.

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  Northrop to develop MALE UAV for small ships

  Northrop Grumman Systems Corp. Aerospace Systems, El Segundo, California, has been awarded a $9,30,76,636 Other Transaction Agreement for prototype project—Tactically Exploited Reconnaissance Node programme, Phase III.