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Aerospace and Defence News – 3
By: Priya Tyagi | Issue: Vol 26.1 Jan-Mar 2011 | Date: 09 Feb , 2011
Apart from the $4.1 billion deal for ten Boeing C-17 Globemaster III heavy airlift aircraft, India is considering purchase of another six for an estimated value of $2.4 billion. This is expected...
GE Engine to Power Tejas LCA Mk II
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol 26.1 Jan-Mar 2011 | Date: 09 Feb , 2011
With GE Aviation bagging the contract to supply the power plant for the Tejas LCA, the US has clearly stolen a march over the Europeans in the lucrative Indian defence market. GE had offered its...
Air Works Appointed as Authorized Rockwell Collins Dealer
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Feb , 2011
Air Works India Engineering Pvt. Ltd today announced that it has been appointed as an authorized dealer by Rockwell Collins, a leading provider of communication and aviation electronic...
PTC Reinforces Commitment to Enterprise Customers in India
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Feb , 2011
PTC announced that it has selected ITC Infotech, a global IT services company and a fully owned subsidiary of USD 6 bn+ ITC Ltd., as a Strategic Services Partner (SSP) for PTC’s enterprise...
AgustaWestland Signs Contracts for Two More AW139s in India
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Feb , 2011
AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica company, is pleased to announce that it has sold two more AW139 medium twin helicopters to customers in India. Adani Group has signed a contract for one AW139 to...
Finmeccanica to take part in Aero India 2011: a global partner for the Indian
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Feb , 2011
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...
By: IDR News Network | Date: 09 Feb , 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 Feb , 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 Feb , 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 Feb , 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 Feb , 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 Feb , 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...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Feb , 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 Feb , 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 Feb , 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 Feb , 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 Feb , 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 Feb , 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 Feb , 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 Feb , 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...