In this week's Flightglobal Defence Newsletter, all the latest industry news including: Eurofighter partners sign €9 billion Tranche 3A deal; Japan and Lockheed mull F-35 assembly plant; PICTURES: EADS flies Barracuda UAV demonstrator in Goose Bay; Saudi Arabia doubles order for A330-based tankers... Flightglobal Defence Newsletter =============================== View this email as a webpage here http://epidm.edgesuite.net/RBI/aerospace/FGFDN/2009/html/FGFDN040809.html Add us to your safe / white list http://epidm.edgesuite.net/RBI/whitelist/whitelist.html ** This Week's Issue ================= Welcome to the first anniversary issue of Flightglobal’s Defence newsletter. We hope that you find the news and analysis in the newsletters useful, and that you will continue to do so in the future. News Stories =================================== Eurofighter partners sign €9 billion Tranche 3A deal ----------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2009/07/31/330463/.html?cp=NLC-FGFDN20090804&attr=editorial Related articles: http://www.flightglobal.com/search/zibbsearch.aspx?searchType=site&sKeywords=eurofighter Email a friend: http://www.flightglobal.com/email/email.aspx?type=article&id=330463 Japan and Lockheed mull F-35 assembly plant ----------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2009/07/22/329986/.html?cp=NLC-FGFDN20090804&attr=editorial Related articles: http://www.flightglobal.com/search/zibbsearch.aspx?searchType=site&sKeywords=f-35 Email a friend: http://www.flightglobal.com/email/email.aspx?type=article&id=329986 PICTURES: EADS flies Barracuda UAV demonstrator in Goose Bay ----------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2009/07/27/330175/.html?cp=NLC-FGFDN20090804&attr=editorial Related articles: http://www.flightglobal.com/search/zibbsearch.aspx?searchType=site&sKeywords=barracuda Email a friend: http://www.flightglobal.com/email/email.aspx?type=article&id=330175 Saudi Arabia doubles order for A330-based tankers ----------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2009/07/30/330376/.html?cp=NLC-FGFDN20090804&attr=editorial Related articles: http://www.flightglobal.com/search/zibbsearch.aspx?searchType=site&sKeywords=a330+tanker Email a friend: http://www.flightglobal.com/email/email.aspx?type=article&id=330376 F-22 crash blamed on pilot error ----------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2009/07/31/330479/.html?cp=NLC-FGFDN20090804&attr=editorial Related articles: http://www.flightglobal.com/search/zibbsearch.aspx?searchType=site&sKeywords=f-22 Email a friend: http://www.flightglobal.com/email/email.aspx?type=article&id=330479 PICTURES: Korea Aerospace Industries, Eurocopter roll out first utility helicopter ----------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2009/07/31/330457/.html?cp=NLC-FGFDN20090804&attr=editorial Related articles: http://www.flightglobal.com/search/zibbsearch.aspx?searchType=site&sKeywords=korea+aerospace Email a friend: http://www.flightglobal.com/email/email.aspx?type=article&id=330457 Advertising Sponsors =================================== L-3 http://www.L-3com.com =================================== What’s Hot =================================== PICTURES: Aeronautics flies Diamond-based Dominator 2 UAV http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2009/07/28/330257/.html?cp=NLC-FGFDN20090804&attr=editorial UK approves Puma upgrade as helicopter debate rages on http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2009/07/23/330039/.html?cp=NLC-FGFDN20090804&attr=editorial Fly-by-wire failure downed Indian Su-30MKI http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2009/07/23/330051/.html?cp=NLC-FGFDN20090804&attr=editorial Most Popular =================================== Lockheed rolls out F-35C as US Navy interest grows http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2009/07/30/330377/.html?cp=NLC-FGFDN20090804&attr=editorial PICTURES: Colombia loses newly upgraded Kfir fighter in runway overshoot http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2009/07/22/329974/.html?cp=NLC-FGFDN20090804&attr=editorial India seeks proposals for Tejas 2 fighter engine http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2009/07/30/330336/.html?cp=NLC-FGFDN20090804&attr=editorial Eurofighter Tranche 3A orders =================================== http://epidm.edgesuite.net/RBI/aerospace/FGFDN/2009/images/18-Eurofighter.jpg Blogs =================================== Stephen Trimble’s The Dew Line blog reveals how a new accounting procedure could add billions of dollars in programme costs to Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter; http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/the-dewline/2009/07/lockheed-f-35-budget-strategy.html Also on The Dew Line, we get to the bottom of a curious report involving Su-35 fighter pilots, missing canopies and movie stunts; http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/the-dewline/2009/07/crazy-ivans-or-what-russian-su.html Events =================================== DSEi 2009 8th to 11th September 2009 London, UK http://www.flightglobal.com/events/2009/09/08/5626/.html?cp=NLC-FGFDN20090804&attr=events Aero & Defense Test 2009 28th September to 1st October 2009 Baltimore, Maryland, USA http://www.flightglobal.com/events/2009/09/28/5625/.html?cp=NLC-FGFDN20090804&attr=events Seoul International Aerospace & Defense Exhibition 2009 20th to 25th October 2009 Seoul, South Korea http://www.flightglobal.com/events/2009/10/20/5595/.html?cp=NLC-FGFDN20090804&attr=events Aerospace and Defense Meetings Turin 2009 28th to 29th October 2009 Turin, Italy http://www.flightglobal.com/events/2009/10/28/5601/.html?cp=NLC-FGFDN20090804&attr=events Aerospace and Defense Finance Conference 2nd to 3rd December 2009 New York, NY, USA http://www.flightglobal.com/events/2009/12/02/5587/.html?cp=NLC-FGFDN20090804&attr=events ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Feedback -------- Let us know your thoughts regarding this newsletter mailto:Gurjinder.Dhamu@rbi.co.uk?subject=Feedback%20-%20Flight%20Defence%20Newsletter Contact Us ---------- http://www.flightglobal.com/StaticPages/contactus.html Manage your account ------------------- * This email has been sent to #emailAddr# * If you do wish to stop receiving this email, please unsubscribe here http://www.rbiforms.co.uk/fgfdn.html * If you have been forwarded this email please register to receive your own copy http://www.rbiforms.co.uk/fgnewsletters_reg.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Disclaimer ---------- This message is intended only for the use of the person(s) ("Intended Recipient") to whom it is addressed. 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