July 6, 1992

July 6, 1992

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French Defense Budget Proposal Backs Rafale Fighter for Late ’90s Service

By JEFFREY M. LENOROVITZ5 min

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U. N. Opens Sarajevo Airport With French, Canadian Forces

By DAVID HUGHES5 min

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Defense Officials Deny F/A-18E/F Approved Without Full Review

By JOHN D. MORROCCO4 min

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French Defense Budget Proposal Backs Rafale Fighter for Late ’90s Service

PARIS France’s new three-year defense budget proposal provides funding to continue the Dassault Rafale program on a schedule that would place the twin-engine combat aircraft in service in the late 1990s. Rafale remains a priority in the country’s military allocations despite growing budgetary constraints and the widespread political changes in Europe and the world, according to Pierre Joxe, the French defense minister.

By JEFFREY M. LENOROVITZ5 min

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U. N. Opens Sarajevo Airport With French, Canadian Forces

BOSTON An airport with a single runway in a valley surrounded by steep terrain is becoming the lifeline for Sarajevo’s 300,000 embattled residents as the United Nations strives to solidify a cease-fire and operate a major airlift. The United Nations has been trying to secure the airport at Sarajevo, a city where Serbian and Bosnian forces have been engaged in heavy combat.

By DAVID HUGHES5 min

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Defense Officials Deny F/A-18E/F Approved Without Full Review

By JOHN D. MORROCCO4 min

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Hughes Doubles Cutback Rate, 9,000 More Workers Will Lose Jobs

LOS ANGELES Hughes Aircraft Co.’s plan to lay off 9,000 employees from now through the end of 1993 continues an employee cutback begun in 1986 to increase the firm’s competitiveness in the face of expected 5%-per-year defense budget cuts.

By MICHAEL A. DORNHEIM4 min

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Pentagon Selects TRW/IAI Hunter To Fill Short-Range UAV Requirement

By DAVID A. FULGHUM4 min

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Crew Conducts Microgravity Tests During Longest Shuttle Mission

JOHNSON SPACE CENTER A wide range of experiments aimed at generating knowledge and boosting U. S. ability to gain economically from microgravity science were underway last week in the first U. S. Microgravity Laboratory on space shuttle mission 50.

By DAVID A. BROWN4 min

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Thomson Mulls Offer for LTV To Save Disputed Acquisition

By ANTHONY L. VELOCCI3 min

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Swedes Sign Pact to Buy 110 Gripen Fighters

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Erint Missile Completes First Flight Test

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New Russian Team Guides Su-27s Through Aerobatic Demos

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