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India has inducted the first batch of the indigenously designed and developed Surface-to-Air Missile (SAM), Akash into the Indian Air Force marking a major milestone in the development of...

Long Range Drone for US Navy

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Vol. 27.2 Apr-Jun 2012 | Date: 01 June 2012

The US Navy is testing a long-range drone that flies at 70,000 feet above aircraft carriers and allows fleet commanders to track suspicious vessels across vast expanses of the sea. A prototype of...

Jet-powered unmanned Predator C Avenger successfully flown

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Vol. 27.2 Apr-Jun 2012 | Date: 01 June 2012

The second prototype of the Predator C Avenger a jet-powered unmanned aircraft system from General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc (GAASI) was successfully flown in California in February this...

Dassault Aviation Partners with Reliance Industries

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Vol. 27.2 Apr-Jun 2012 | Date: 01 June 2012

With an already diversified business portfolio, Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL), India, has now entered into an agreement with Dassault Aviation of France for joint ventures in the regime of defence...

The Global Aircraft Carrier Perspective

By: Vice Adm (Retd) GM Hiranandani |Issue: Vol 21.4 Oct-Dec 2006 | Date: 30 May 2012

Navies have Aircraft Carriers to provide instantly available air power to fleets at sea. The number of aircraft carriers that a Navy requires derives from how many are needed during war to...

Military Application for Unmanned Aerial Systems in India

By: Air Marshal Narayan Menon |Issue: Vol. 27.2 Apr-Jun 2012 | Date: 30 May 2012

Undoubtedly the fastest growing segment of military aviation research and development today, Unmanned Aerial Systems offer a host of operational, technical, economic and environmental...

Dennis Swanson, VP, Boeing India

By: Priya Tyagi |Issue: Vol. 27.2 Apr-Jun 2012 | Date: 30 May 2012

“Boeing is committed to… meet the Indian government’s goals to strengthen indigenous aerospace and defence capabilities” The military industrial complex in the USA is in private hands but...

Agni-V: India's New Deterrent against China

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 May 2012

The nation awaits with bated breath the launch of India’s Agni-V missile that would understandably cause concern in some parts of the world more specifically in the neighbourhood. The Agni-V is a...

Gold Medallist Doctor took over as DGMS (Navy)

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 May 2012

Surgeon Vice Admiral Anil Chandra Anand took over as the Director General Medical Services (Navy) on 01 June. A gold medallist from the King George Medical College, Lucknow, he was commissioned in...

Boeing Delivers 1st EA-18G Growler Featuring Bharat Electronics Limited...

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 May 2012

BEL also produces cockpit subassemblies for F/A-18E/F Super Hornets Follow-on order further expands Boeing’s relationship with Indian industry Boeing on May 3 delivered to the U.S. Navy the...

Rheinmetall: Modern systems for modern armed forces

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 May 2012

Tracked and wheeled fighting vehicles Main battle tanks and infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs) as well as wheeled armoured combat vehicles continue to form the backbone of modern mechanized armed...

Vice Admiral DK Joshi will be the next Navy Chief

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 May 2012

The Government has appointed Vice Admiral DK Joshi, presently Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief (FOC-in-C) Western Naval Command, as the next Chief of the Naval Staff with effect from afternoon of...

How Bharat Electronics Dodges the Issues!

By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 May 2012

During the presentation made to the Feasibility Study Committee on 11 Feb 2009, a Defence Public Sector Undertaking (DPSU) announced that it had executed orders worth 4,100 crore rupees during the...

Ansari’s Arrest: Answers that India needs

By: B Raman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 May 2012

Ansari is presently under interrogation by the Indian authorities. It is likely that the interrogation is being carried out by a joint team headed by the Multi-Agency Centre (MAC) of the...

Boeing to Modernize Flight Deck and Avionics for US and NATO AWACS Fleets

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 May 2012

$368M contract is 2nd phase of US Air Force and NATO program The Boeing Company has received a $368 million Engineering, Manufacturing and Development (EMD) contract to develop a design that...

KMW buys UK bridge-making company

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 May 2012

Krauss-Maffei Wegmann GmbH & Co. KG has taken over the UK company WFEL Ltd. based in Stockport, Cheshire. WFEL is regarded as the world-market leader for mobile bridging systems in both military...

Pak bigger terrorist threat than Iran

By: Kanwal Sibal |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 May 2012

India-US relations have neither burgeoned as much as the enthusiasts may have wanted nor withered as much as the skeptics may have anticipated. The relationship is neither in an impasse nor is it...

New DCNS carrier deck coating process validated

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 May 2012

Recent tests have demonstrated the effectiveness of new coatings applied to the flight deck of CVN Charles de Gaulle using a process tailored by DCNS. Phase I of this programme involved the...

INS VIRAAT: 25 Years of Glorious Service

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 May 2012

On 12 May 1987 HMS Hermes became INS Viraat under the command of Capt (later Vice Admiral) Vinod Pasricha. Born in Nov 1959 as HMS Hermes, INS Viraat took avatar after completing 28 years under...

DuPont opens Ballistics Facility at DuPont Knowledge Center in India

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 May 2012

DuPont announced the opening of its world-class integrated ballistics facility in India, the first such DuPont facility in the Asia Pacific region. The DuPont Ballistics facility is located at the...