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Israeli Military Industries Systems, or IMI Systems, in cooperation with Israel Aerospace Industries, abbreviated IAI, is close to finishing development of a new air-launched, precision-guided, high-speed weapon called Rampage that can hit targets more than 90 miles away. The announcement comes as Israel steps up its cross-border campaign against Iran and its interests in neighboring Syria, which has seen an increasing emphasis on stand-off capabilities given the complex air defense environment in that country, but the weapon could also be especially attractive to a number of foreign military forces. The two Israeli state-run companies officially unveiled the new weapon in...

Securing Tranche 3 was a victory of sorts for Eurofighter in production of the Typhoon: It guarantees additional work to 2016, but the procurement number is less than half of that originally agreed. Wrapped in the fig leaf of a split-buy, London, rapidly made it clear that there was unlikely to be a further purchase commitment beyond Tranche 3A. Funding pressures and changing circumstances are working to undermine the offtake numbers of the umbrella contract. While the Typhoon program exemplifies the vicissitudes of collaborative development, it is providing the four partner nations—Germany, Italy, Spain and the U.K.—with a highly capable...

Typhoon delivers the fright stuff By Adam Lusher, Sunday Telegraph Last Updated: 1:35am BST 29/04/2007Page 1 of 3 Some joker has got his hands on of one of our aircraft. Unfortunately, that joker is me. I am at 36,000ft in an RAF Typhoon (aka the Eurofighter, cost £66.7 million), "flying" the result of Britain's most expensive and probably most controversial weapons project at almost the speed of sound above an unsuspecting part of Lincolnshire. What is truly alarming is not the speed or the altitude or the cost, or even that I have just been asked to execute a turn,...

April 5, 2007 Saudis hold back on signing BAE deal until Brown in No 10 David Robertson, Business Correspondent Saudi Arabia will wait for Gordon Brown to become Prime Minister before signing a £20 billion deal to buy Eurofighter Typhoon jets from BAE Systems, The Times has learnt. Negotiations for the sale of 72 fighter jets are believed to be progressing well but the Saudis want the deal endorsed by Britain’s next Prime Minister. The contract between the two governments is expected to be signed in late June or early July once a new leader is chosen by the Labour...

Originally Posted by The Business NEW row has broken out over the Eurofighter Typhoon, with ministers from the £19bn (E27bn, $35bn) fighter plane's four partner nations banning all French nationals from promoting the aircraft for export. The Business has learned that ministers have imposed the extraordinary condition as the plane approaches a pivotal period in its history because they believe the French would undermine the plane's export potential by putting their national interests - and products - first. The ban, likely to increase tensions between the UK and France, was set out in a letter written by procurement ministers from...