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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

Farnborough International Airshow - A400M during a demonstration flight at Farnborough International Airshow on July 19. (Defense News photo by M. Scott Mahaskey)

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

Farnborough International Airshow - Contract maintainers walk an RQ-1 Predator toward its shelter at Balad Air Base, Iraq, in 2006. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Jason Ridder)

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

Farnborough International Airshow - KC-390 concept (Embraer illustration)

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

Farnborough International Airshow - Sales of BAE M777 howitzers like this U.S. Marine Corps gun helped boost 2009 UK exports. (U.S. Marine Corps photo)

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

Farnborough International Airshow - AgustaWestland AW139 in Italian Coast Guard livery on display at Finmeccanica's compound at Farnborough. (Defense News photo by Bradley Peniston)

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

Farnborough International Airshow - A BAE Systems Hawk jet trainer on static display at Farnborough. (Defense News photo by Bradley Peniston)

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.

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Farnborough International Airshow – July 19-25, 2010