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  1. Northrop Grumman announced the delivery of the operational software package for the AN/AAQ-37 Electro-Optical Distributed Aperture System (EO-DAS) to Lockheed Martin for integration into the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (JSF).
  2. The Royal Navy of Oman’s (RNO) second Corvette (Al-Rahmani) was commissioned at Portsmouth Naval Base, UK,  this past Sunday. This is the second of 3 corvette designed and built by BAE Systems for the RNO.
  3.     The Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor showcased its unrivaled maneuverability and aerial prowess for the international crowd attending the Farnborough International Airshow for 2 consecutive days this past week (19-20 July).
  4. Raytheon delivered its 200th APG-79 Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar to Boeing for installation on U.S. Navy F/A-18E/F and EA-18G aircraft and the Royal Australian Air Force F/A-18F Super Hornet.
  5. Boeing celebrated the 100th CH-47F Chinook helicopter built at the company's Ridley Township facility in the US this past week.
  6. At the Farnborough Air Show, Shigeru Murayama, President of Kawasaki Heavy Industries Aerospace Company (KHI) and Lutz Bertling, President and CEO of Eurocopter, signed a new cooperation agreement for the EC145, a new evolution from the BK117...
  7. Bahrain's national carrier Gulf Air is on target with its fleet renewal programme following the delivery of the 8 Airbus A320-200 last month.
  8. Thales introduced BlueGate, its new range of IFF solutions created to be fully compliant with the introduction of Mode 5 and Mode S international secure identification capabilities, at the ongoing Farnborough Air Show.
  9.     According to sources in the French Defense Ministry which is pressing Thales and Safran to consolidate some of their activities, France froze orders worth 300 million euros with both companies.
  10. Abu Dhabi Aircraft Technologies (ADAT), signed a 5-year agreement to conduct airframe heavy maintenance for Thomas Cook's Boeing 757 fleet.
 



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