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New Zealand, others to receive CAE flight training systems
by Richard Tomkins
Montreal (UPI) Jul 3, 2013


Boeing delivers another maritime surveillance aircraft to Navy
Seattle (UPI) Jul 3, 2013 - Boeing reports it has delivered the 14th P-8A maritime surveillance aircraft to the U.S. Navy, with seven more in the delivery pipeline for later this year.

The P-8A Poseidon will be operated from Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Fla., providing anti-submarine warfare, anti-surface warfare, and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities.

"We're putting P-8A aircraft through their paces out in the field and appreciate all the reliability, capabilities and improvements the Poseidon brings to the table," said U.S. Navy Commander Tony Rossi, P-8A deputy program manager. "The next squadron is trained, ready to go and will begin conducting missions in the near future."

The U.S. Navy's first P-8A squadron was deployed to Japan late last year.

The Poseidon aircraft is based on Boeing's 737-800 commercial aircraft. It has a cruise speed of over 400 knots, a range of 1,200 nautical miles and can remain on-station for four hours in an anti-submarine role.

In addition to its electronics for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, the aircraft can carry torpedoes, mines and a variety of missiles.

"Our team appreciates the Navy's urgency to induct additional P-8As into the fleet," said Rick Heerdt, Boeing Mobility, Surveillance & Engagement vice president and program manager. "The positive feedback we've received about the aircraft currently in service is a great motivator."

A range of simulation-based training systems and services are being provided for military customers by Canada's CAE, the company announced.

The contracts -- four in all -- have a combined worth of about $103 million.

The first award is from Beechcraft Defense Company LLC and is for the development and support of a comprehensive T-6C ground-based training system for the Royal New Zealand Air Force.

The integrated training system will be comprised of two T-6C operational flight trainers, computer-based classroom training systems, and courseware customized for the service.

CAE, through a subsidiary, already has a long-term training support and maintenance service facility in New Zealands. The new training system will be part of a Beechcraft training solution aircraft the country is procuring from the company.

The two CAE-built T-6C operational flight trainers being provided will include a high-fidelity replica of the T-6C cockpit with a fully-enclosed 270-degree-by-70-degree field-of-view display system driven by the CAE Medallion-6000 image generator.

Under a second contract from Germany's Federal Office of Bundeswehr Equipment, Information Technology and In-Service Support, CAE will replace obsolete components and upgrade the visual systems on the German Air Force's Eurofighter simulators. The upgrade will include the addition of CAE's Medallion-6000 image generator, new high-resolution projectors, and dome display systems for the Eurofighter full-mission simulators, and Eurofighter cockpit trainers.

Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd tapped CAE to provide its CAE Medallion-6000 image generator for a T-50IQ full-mission simulator that KAI is developing for the Iraqi Air Force, while an unidentified customer is to be provide with a KC-135 boom operator weapon systems trainer, the company said.

"We are well positioned across a range of opportunities around the world, involving defense and security forces that increasingly recognize the benefits of simulation-based training," said Gene Colabatistto, CAE Group president, Defense and Security. "CAE is a skilled and experienced training systems integrator, and we are focused on pursuing long-term, integrated training solutions."

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