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Eighteen months after construction began, the Gowind offshore patrol vessel L’Adroit, an innovative maritime safety and security platform, has left DCNS’s Lorient shipyard, where it was built,...

Boeing and Northrop Grumman on Final Proposal Submission of Competitive...

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 November 2011

The Boeing Company and Northrop Grumman Corporation today submitted their final proposal for future work on the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) element of the United States’ ballistic...

Lockheed Martin completes assembly of the first international F-35 for the...

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 November 2011

The United Kingdom Ministry of Defence will use the short takeoff/vertical landing (STOVL) jet, known as BK-1, for training and operational tests. BK-1 will undergo functional fuel system...

Alleged Memo from Zardari to Admiral Mullen

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 November 2011

Briefing for Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff During the past 72 hours since a meeting was held between the president, the prime minister and the chief of army staff, there has...

Police killed Ishrat Jahan in Cold Blood

By: B Raman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 November 2011

A three-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) headed by Rajiv Ranjan Verma, a senior officer of the Bihar IPS cadre, has concluded that Ishrat Jahan, a 19-year-old girl from Maharashtra, and...

China-India Maritime Rivalry

By: Cdr Gurpreet S Khurana |Issue: Vol. 23.4 Oct-Dec 2008 | Date: 22 November 2011

In the Post-Cold War Era re-distribution of power, the balance is clearly shifting to Asia. This is primarily due to the increasing comprehensive National Power (CNP) of China and India. But as...

India's New Found Confidence

By: Air Marshal RS Bedi |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 November 2011

A couple of land mark events have taken place during the last few months; India asserting its rights to explore oil in South China Sea by entering into a contract with the Vietnamese government...

A Future View of Terrorism

By: S. Sanyal |Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 21 November 2011

We can no longer overlook the fact that terrorism has come to stay in our midst and that the actors of terrorism are none other than some of us who suddenly decide to step out and move away from...

Three Years After 26/11 New Delhi unable to control terror

By: B Raman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 November 2011

The 26/11 terrorist strikes led to five important decisions by the Government of India— to decentralise the deployment of the National Security Guards (NSG) by setting up regional hubs,...

The Darkness in Afghanistan

By: Kanwal Sibal |Issue: Vol. 26.3 July - Sept 2011 | Date: 18 November 2011

Even as the US is withdrawing, its leaders insist that they are not going to abandon Afghanistan, that they will maintain their long term commitment to it and not allow any single country to...

Rheinmetall and ADS GmbH demonstrate ADS force protection technology

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 November 2011

Rocket-propelled grenades, antitank guided missiles and explosively formed projectiles (a particularly pernicious type of IED) all pose a severe threat to troops deployed in modern conflict and...

Boeing and Singapore Airlines finalize order for eight 777-300ERs

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 November 2011

Boeing and Singapore Airlines announced an order for eight additional 777-300 Extended Range (ER) airplanes. The orders were previously recorded on Boeing’s Orders & Deliveries website,...

Sikorsky meets accelerated BLACK HAWK Helicopter deliveries for Sweden

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 November 2011

Sikorsky Aircraft, a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp. today delivered to the U.S. Army the fourth of 15 UH-60M BLACK HAWK aircraft for further transfer to the Swedish Defence Material...

Tawazun Precision Industries prepares to enter the MBDA Global Supply Chain

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 November 2011

Tawazun Precision Industries (TPI), a Tawazun Holding subsidiary specialised in the manufacture of metallic components for Aerospace/ Aviation, Defence, and Oil & Gas industries, has entered...

Boeing becomes full member of Danish Advanced Manufacturing & Research Centre

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 November 2011

The Boeing Company has expanded its partnership with the Danish Advanced Manufacturing and Research Centre (DAMRC), becoming a full participating member. Boeing’s membership offers the DAMRC...

Mexico takes delivery of its first Airbus Military

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 November 2011

The Mexican Navy has taken delivery of the first of four CN235 Maritime Patrol Aircraft (MPA) ordered from Airbus Military through a contract with EADS North America under the Mérida Initiative,...

India and US Sign Aviation Safety Agreement

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 November 2011

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced the completion of a bilateral agreement between the United States and India that will allow for the reciprocal certification of aviation...

Indo-Pak: Limitations of Peace Talks

By: Prakash Nanda |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 November 2011

One always has a lot of emotional attachment with his or her place of birth. Therefore it is understandable why Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has a very soft corner for Pakistan. He once had...

India plans to develop solar-powered UAVs

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 November 2011

The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has revealed that India plans to develop solar-powered unmanned flying machines with the capability of remaining airborne for at least a...

Helicopter Acquisition by the IAF

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 November 2011

The Indian Ministry of Defence is currently in the process of finalising helicopter gunships for the IAF in a deal worth $550 million. Its acquisition were earlier dogged by controversy. The IAF...