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Finmeccanica – through its Operating Companies AgustaWestland, Alenia Aeronautica, DRS Technologies, SELEX Communications and SELEX Galileo – will take part in Aero India 2011, to be held in...

SELEX Galileo to offer leading European technologies to India at Aero India 2011

By: IDR News Network | Date: 09 February 2011

SELEX Galileo, a Finmeccanica Company, has a strong and growing presence in India and will be reinforcing this position at this year’s Aero India exhibition. As a key player in defence...

Elbit successfully performs Joint Flight Missions of Hermes 450 and Hermes...

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 February 2011

Elbit Systems announced today that it successfully performed a series of joint flight missions of its Hermes® 450 and Hermes® 900 Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). The two different UAS were...

Northrop supports broadening of technology transfer

By: Bharat Verma |Issue: Vol 26.1 Jan-Mar 2011 | Date: 09 February 2011

Interview with William J Schaefer, Sector Vice President, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems. Could you please outline the global profile of the company and briefly describe the history of its...

Boeing Committed to long term partnership

By: Bharat Verma |Issue: Vol 26.1 Jan-Mar 2011 | Date: 09 February 2011

Interview with Richard S. McCrary, Director International Business Development, Boeing Military Aircraft. The F/A 18A, the forerunner of the Super Hornet was rolled out in 1978. What is the...

The Fragile Af-Pak Policy

By: Prakash Nanda |Issue: Vol 24.4 Oct-Dec 2009 | Date: 07 February 2011

With each passing day, it is becoming increasingly obvious that the Obama administration’s so-called Af–Pak policy is simply not working. The fraudulent Presidential elections in Afghanistan,...

India needs independent defence think tanks

By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman |Issue: Vol 23.3 Jul-Sep 2008 | Date: 07 February 2011

During his address at the 42nd Foundation Day function of the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA), the Vice President of India, Mr M Hamid Ansari stressed the need for structured...

C-130J's induction testimony to India's role as a global leader: US Ambassador

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 February 2011

The Indian Air Force inducted the first of six Lockheed Martin C-130J ‘Super Hercules’ aircraft into its transportation fleet today at a ceremony at Air Force Station Hindan. This historic...

Coastal and maritime security: two sides of the same coin

By: Vice Admiral PS Das |Issue: Vol 24.1 Jan-Mar 2009 | Date: 04 February 2011

The Mumbai terrorist attack of 26th November 2008 has, correctly, focused on issues concerning the security of India’s vast coastline. Earlier, in 1993, the Maharashtra coast had been used to...

India 2025: A Global Defence Exports Hub?

By: Rahul K Bhonsle |Issue: Vol 25.1 Jan-Mar 2010 | Date: 04 February 2011

The inflection point to the evolution of a collaborative defence industry model in India through a public-private partnership appears around the corner as we go into Defexpo 2010 with over 500...

Nexter is aboard ALH and LCH

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 February 2011

Nexter is an European leader in defense systems. Nexter is a major supplier of the air forces and army light aviations for high performances weaponery and protection systems. It provides also...

Pak nuclear card limits Indian anti-terror options

By: Lt Gen Harwant Singh |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 February 2011

ITS three decades since Pakistan has been fermenting trouble in India. It started with Punjab and later in Jammu and Kashmir, followed by sporadic terrorist attacks in rest of India. While it is...

Aerospace Leadership in the coming decades gets underway

By: IDR News Network | Date: 04 February 2011

The third edition of “Jumbo” Majumdar International Conference on “Aerospace Leadership in the coming decades” was inaugurated by Minister of State for Defence, Dr MM Pallam Raju, in New Delhi,...

The Arab lessons

By: Prakash Nanda |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 February 2011

While it will be little premature to suggest that a democratic revolution is sweeping across the Arab world at the moment, the Arabs are no doubt undergoing a great period of turmoil. It started...

BAE Systems supports the Typhoon bid for MMRCA

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 February 2011

Underlining its commitment to Typhoon, BAE Systems will continue its vigorous support of the Typhoon bid for the Medium Multi Role Combat Aircraft (MMRCA) programme at Aero India that starts...

Eurofighter Typhoons land in Bengaluru

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 February 2011

Two Eurofighter Typhoons of the Italian Air Force arrived safely in Bengaluru to showcase their outstanding operational capabilities at Aero India 2011. The air show will be held at the Air...

Aero India 2011 to surpass all previous edition statistics

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 February 2011

The 8th edition of Aero India, being held in Bengaluru from February 9 to 13, 2011, is expected to surpass all previous editions of the premiere air show in terms of participation and volume....

ALH Dhruv Simulator Cockpit at HATSOFF

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 February 2011

The Helicopter Academy to Train by Simulation of Flying (HATSOFF) is a Rs 300 crore joint venture enterprise with 50:50 partnership between Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) and CAE of Canada....

Egypt: The Modified Script

By: RSN Singh |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 February 2011

The contagion of protests spreading from one country to another in the Arab world has made the ruling dispensations edgy and nervous. The general feeling in India and many other parts of the...

The Jihadi Barbarity

By: B Raman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 February 2011

In our excitement over the revolution from nowhere sweeping across the Arab world and in our preoccupation with trying to understand what has been happening in Egypt, we should not fail to...