BAE Systems expects to fly the first development Hawk 128 advanced jet trainer (AJT) for the UK Royal Air Force this week as it launches a sales campaign built around the latest version of the ...

BAE Systems says its desire to avoid the project overrun mistakes of the past lie behind the delay in signing the Hawk 128 design and development contract with the UK Ministry of Defence at the show.

A single-seat light fighter variant (the Hawk 200) also was built. All versions are powered by a Rolls-Royce Adour turbofan, the latest Hawk 128 AJT variant using the 6,800-lb.-thrust Mk 951 variant.

Air Chief Marshal Sir Glenn Torpy made his comments after piloting one of the Hawk Advanced Jet Trainer Mk 128 development aircraft from BAE Systems at Warton, the company said in a statement Friday.

The Middle Eastern state and BAE Systems are also expected to finalise the sale of eight Hawk 128 aircraft. Before his arrival in Muscat, the Prime Minister dismissed concerns about Britain ...

U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron said Oman agreed to buy 12 Eurofighter Typhoon fighters and eight Hawk 128 advanced trainers, both made by BAE Systems Plc.

BAE Systems Plc’s 2.5 billion-pound ... Oman agreed to buy 12 Eurofighter Typhoon fighters and eight Hawk 128 advanced jet trainers. ... The deal also boosts Hawk sales to 998 aircraft.

BAE will deliver the first 250 units in 2019 and 2020. The UH-60 Black Hawk is the primary medium-lift transport helicopter of the U.S. Army, and several other nations where it has been exported.

The stakes were raised yesterday when a confidential Ministry of Defence paper concluded that choosing BAE's Hawk 128 jet trainer would lead to a departmental budget shortfall of £1.8 billion.

Mark Parkinson, the managing director of BAE's Hawk business, says: "Only 1 per cent of the 128 is the old Hawk. It is a new aircraft, yet at the same time we have 25 years of experience to ...