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The Mi-8 and the AN-32 were the main ‘workhorses’ in Operation Pawan in Sri Lanka. The Mi-8 fleet flew well over 35,000 sorties lifting over 100,000 troops and 5,700 tonnes of load. Similarly,...

SOFT POWER counts for very little!

By: Kanwal Sibal |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 October 2012

If the US lacked the overwhelming “hard power” it has, if global institutions were not dominated by it, if it did not actively propagate its political,economic and societal values world-wide,...

Boeing on Schedule to Deliver Next-Gen Tracking and Data Relay Satellite

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 October 2012

Satellites extend NASA’s ability to transmit information among spacecraft and ground terminals Key performance tests and work with General Dynamics on ground segment complete Boeing is on...

Le Vigilant SSBN under major routine maintenance and adaptation of new...

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 October 2012

The nuclear submarine ballistic missile (SSBN) Le Vigilant left last week Brest naval base -Brittany, France – where she underwent first part of major maintenance and adaptation works to the new...

Pratt & Whitney Completes First PurePower PW1100G-JM Engine for Airbus A320neo

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 October 2012

Pratt & Whitney has completed assembly of its first engine to test (FETT) for its PurePower PW1100G-JM engine – the first engine to power the Airbus A320neo aircraft. Company leadership,...

Bell Boeing Receives US Marine Corps Contract for V-22 Training Devices

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 October 2012

Trainers will support presidential transport and Osprey aircrews The U.S. Marine Corps has awarded a $74 million contract to the Bell Boeing V-22 Program, a strategic alliance between Boeing and...

UAVs gaining currency with Indian Armed Forces

By: Guilem Monsonis |Issue: EDR Vol. March/April 2012 | Date: 30 October 2012

Drones are on the rise in the Indian armed forces. Identified as an essential tool for modernization, in recent years UAVs have become a staple of Indian border surveillance. Constrained for a...

The IAF: Combining Numbers and Quality

By: David Saw |Issue: EDR Vol. March/April 2012 | Date: 28 October 2012

The Indian Air Force (IAF) was established on 8th October 1932, a state of affairs that came about due to the passage of the ‘Indian Air Force Act’ by the then British colonial administration....

India's Foreign Policies under Indira Gandhi

By: Harish Kapur |Issue: Book Excerpt: Foreign Policies of India's Prime Ministers | Date: 28 October 2012

Indira Gandhi was much more equipped in foreign affairs than Lal Bahadur Shastri. As Nehru’s daughter, she had the rare privilege of being constantly exposed to the outside world. At their...

Successful first end to end firing of MBDA naval cruise missile (MdCN) in...

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 October 2012

The French DGA (Direction Générale de l’Armement) has successfully carried out the first end to end firing of the MdCN (Missile de Croisière Naval or naval cruise missile) in its submarine...

EC120 Colibri aircraft exceeds 40,000 flight hours

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 October 2012

Helidax, a subsidiary of DCI and INAER, announces that it has exceeded 40,000 flight hours on EC120 Colibri aircraft, in their Calliope configuration, after 2 years of operation. Helidax is the...

Boeing Receives $2 Billion C-17 Aircraft Sustainment Contract

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 October 2012

Boeing will continue assuring the worldwide availability of C-17 aircraft, which provide vital military and humanitarian airlift capability, through a $2 billion follow-on contract it recently...

South Korea orders its 100th Sigma 40 navigation system from Sagem

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 October 2012

South Korea has ordered its 100th shipborne Sigma 40 inertial navigation system from Sagem (Safran group), confirming its confidence in the system’s laser gyro technology. The Sigma 40 is a...

Boeing-COMAC Technology Center Announces First Biofuel Research Project

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 October 2012

Hangzhou Energy Engineering & Technology will find ways to convert waste cooking oil for use as jet fuel A newly formed technology center created by Boeing and Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China...

Sagem wins major contract to supply Vigy Observer optronic systems

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 October 2012

Sagem (Safran group) has signed a contract to supply 80 Vigy Observer optronic systems for the navy’s new fast interceptor craft. It won the contract against an international field of...

New standards for Towed Guns

By: Mark Huntiller |Issue: EDR Vol. March/April 2012 | Date: 23 October 2012

Many experts and talented observers predicted that towed guns would be completely replaced in coming decades by automotive-mounted arms, with truck-mounted pieces and howitzers seen as the...

India and the European Aerospace Industry

By: Gp Capt AK Sachdev |Issue: Vol 26.1 Jan-Mar 2011 | Date: 22 October 2012

After the nightmare of recession, the airline industry is convincingly on the path to recovery. The mood in European as indeed, in the global aviation industry, is definitely upbeat. In fact, the...

Defending the Indian Skies

By: Air Marshal Raghu Rajan |Issue: Vol. 27.2 Apr-Jun 2012 | Date: 22 October 2012

Air or Aerospace Defence provides a secure foundation for the safe and effective launch of aircraft and missiles to tackle an airborne or space-based intruder. Besides, the sharp end comprising...

India, Tibet, China: The contending triumvirate

By: Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 October 2012

“When there is everything to fear, be unafraid. When without resources, depend on resourcefulness”, – Sun Tsu. The territorial dispute in the Trans-Himalayan Region is a legacy of the eternal...

Implications of China's Rise

By: Maj Gen Sheru Thapliyal, PhD |Issue: Vol 25.3 Jul-Sep 2010 | Date: 20 October 2012

The English geographer Sir Halford Mackinder ended his famous 1904 article, “The Geographical Pivot of History,” with a disturbing reference to China. After explaining why Eurasia was the...