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Boeing TDRS-K Relay Satellite Sends 1st Signals from Space
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 31 January 2013
Boeing has received the first on-orbit signals from the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS)-K, demonstrating that the vehicle is functioning and ready to use its internal engine to boost it...
Potential Hawk order to expand India footprint
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 January 2013
BAE Systems has received a Request for Proposal (RFP) from Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) for a potential order to supply products and services for the manufacture of 20 Hawk Advanced Jet...
DSM Dyneema Opens New Asia Pacific Technical Center
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 January 2013
. 1st Independent Ballistics Testing Facility in Singapore New heart of Asia operations will provide increased support to regional customers DSM Dyneema, the inventor and manufacturer of ultra...
Alenia Aermacchi’s SF-260 with glass cockpit completes first flight
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 January 2013
Alenia Aermacchi’s SF-260TP primary and basic trainer, equipped with new digital avionics (Glass Cockpit), an enhanced multi-spectral vision system and an upgraded air conditioning system has...
Rheinmetall wins order to supply sensor equipment
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 January 2013
Germany’s Bundeswehr has assigned Rheinmetall an important role in modernizing many of its vehicles with new electro-optical sensor technology. The Düsseldorf-based Group has received a...
Diehl showcases European missile expertise at Aero India 2013
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 January 2013
Diehl Defence is focusing on European guided missile expertise at the Aero nIndia from February 6 to 10, 2013, in Bangalore. IRIS-T is one of the world´s most advanced air-to-air guided missiles...
Friendly Handshake: Change is unlikely in India-US relations
By: Kanwal Sibal |Issue: Courtesy: The Telegraph | Date: 29 January 2013
Looking ahead, what could President Barack Obama’s second term mean for relations between India and the United States of America? Will the relationship stay more or less at the level that it has...
SCAC appoints new President
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 January 2013
On January 28, 2013 “Sukhoi Civil Aircraft” Company (SCAC) Board of Directors appointed the new President. Mr Andrey Kalinovsky was named President of “Sukhoi Civil Aircraft” replacing Mr...
GKN Aerospace at Aero India
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 January 2013
Fuel and emergency flotation technologies lead the GKN Aerospace display at Aero India, 2013 GKN Aerospace’s display at Aero India, 2013 (Hall B, Stand 4.15) is focused on developments across...
Maini Group outlines expansion plans at Aero India 2013
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 January 2013
The Maini Group today announced that it would be sharing details regarding its expansion plans at The Aero India 2013. The group has acquired industrial land in preparation for its expansion of...
Airbus Military Participates at Aero India 2013
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 January 2013
Airbus Military will participate at the Aero India 2013 exhibition commencing February 6, at the Air Force station, Yelahanka, Bengaluru. Programme officials will be available to discuss the A330...
US Judgement - The Shoe Bomber is sentenced
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 January 2013
Richard Colvin Reid (born 12 August 1973), also known as the Shoe Bomber, is a British citizen who attempted to detonate American Airlines Flight 63 from Paris to Miami, wearing shoes packed...
A policy of denial and defiance
By: Vikram Sood |Issue: Courtesy: MidDay Mumbai | Date: 28 January 2013
What is with Pakistan’s rulers? Have they made their state a state in denial or are they themselves in a state of denial? It was both interesting and disturbing to see speakers from Pakistan...
How Pakistan Army plotted Kargil War: Najam Sethi
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 January 2013
In the following three videos, Najam Sethi, Editor Friday Times, Pakistan, makes candid revelations on how the Pakistan Army plotted to occupy the Kargil Heights clandestinely. The plan by...
Cases of Headley & Rana: What Next?
By: B Raman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 January 2013
The Ministry of Home Affairs of the Government of India has been less than honest with the public by trying to convey an impression that it will continue to try for the extradition of David...
Pakistan the nettlesome neighbour
By: Kanwal Sibal |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 January 2013
India-Pakistan ties: Pakistan has to act like a civilised country and do serious introspection about its destructive attitudes and policies. We need to take proper stock of our policy towards...
Boeing Delivers Indian Air Force's 1st C-17 Globemaster
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 January 2013
Program on schedule to deliver 5 airlifters in 2013 and 5 in 2014 Boeing on Jan. 22 delivered – on schedule – the first of 10 C-17 Globemaster III airlifters for the Indian Air Force (IAF)....
Aligning Armed Forces to 21st Century Internal Security Threats
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch |Issue: Courtesy: Centre for Joint Warfare Studies | Date: 23 January 2013
“Europeans believe that Indian leaders in politics and business are so blissfully blinded by the new, sometimes ill-gotten, wealth and deceit that they are living in defiance, insolence and...
Eurofighter to Secure Airspace during World Economic Forum
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 January 2013
Eurofighter belonging to the Austrian Armed Forces will be used to secure the airspace during the World Economic Forum 2013 in Davos. As part of the airspace surveillance operation „Daedalus...
Mahindra and BAE join hands in India
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 January 2013
Since the establishment in 2009 of the Mahindra & Mahindra (74%) and BAE Systems (26%) Joint Venture, Defence Land Systems India (DLSI), both shareholders recognise that significant evolution has...