Articles By IDR News Network
DCNS conducts first helicopter deck landing trials on FREMM Aquitaine
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Feb , 2012
DCNS has achieved formal qualification of the FREMM frigate Aquitaine’s flight deck for operations with the Lynx helicopter. This milestone was reached several months ahead of schedule after a...
Boeing Completes deliveries of Super Hornet
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Feb , 2012
Boeing announced that it has completed delivery of 257 F/A-18E/F Super Hornet strike fighters and EA-18G Growler electronic attack aircraft to the U.S. Navy. Each aircraft was delivered ahead of...
Edwards F-35A Conducts First External Weapons Test Mission
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Feb , 2012
On Feb. 16, the first external weapons test mission was flown by an F-35A Conventional Takeoff and Landing (CTOL) aircraft at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., further expanding the program’s...
Lockheed Martin's Fighting Falcon evolves with New F-16V
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Feb , 2012
Lockheed Martin unveiled a new version of the F-16 at the Singapore Airshow. The F-16V will feature enhancements including an active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar, an upgraded...
Mi-17 V5 helicopter to be inducted into the IAF
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Feb , 2012
Mi-17 V5 helicopter would be inducted into the IAF on 17 February 2012. This helicopter falls in the category of armed helicopter, with substantial and effective firepower with the latest and...
IAF Chief Leads Delegation to Singapore
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Feb , 2012
Air Chief Marshal NAK Browne, Chief of the Air Staff, is on a, four day Defence Cooperation visit to Singapore from 13 Feb 2012. Leading a Composite Defence Delegation to Singapore, the Air...
Howe and Howe Technologies: Pushing the limits of extreme vehicle design...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Feb , 2012
Twin brothers Geoff and Mike Howe were already working as engineers before they knew what engineering was. At age six, they took a toaster apart to figure out how it worked. At eight, they built...
Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force Orders Northrop Grumman's ALMDS
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Feb , 2012
The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force has purchased four helicopter-mountable, laser mine detection systems to help protect its coastline and the daily maritime traffic coming in and out of the...
1st Inshore Patrol Vessel Commissioned into Coast Guard
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Jan , 2012
The Indian Coast Guard Ship Rani Abbakka, the 1st of a series of five Inshore Patrol Vessel (IPV) built at M/s HSL, was commissioned at Visakhapatnam byMinister of State for Defence Dr. MM...
Lockheed Martin F-35A Performs First Night Flight
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Jan , 2012
The first night flight in the history of the Lockheed Martin F-35 Program was completed Wednesday at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. Piloted by Lockheed Martin Test Pilot Mark Ward, AF-6, an...
Boeing to Build More Wideband Global SATCOM Satellites for US Air Force
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Jan , 2012
Boeing has received authorization from the U.S. Air Force to produce and launch the eighth and ninth Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellites. The WGS-9 authorization and the WGS-8 production...
Sagem to modernize M270 Multiple Launch Rocket Systems
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Jan , 2012
Sagem (Safran group) has won a contract from Cassidian (an EADS company) to supply Sigma 30 navigation and pointing systems to modernize the self-propelled M270 Mars MLRS (Multiple Launch Rocket...
Will China threat last beyond two years?
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Jan , 2012
A strange and amazing question to stall military expansion programme has been raised by the Finance Ministry to the Defence Ministry today: Will China threat last beyond two years? What it...
Air Chief Flies SU-30MKI as he visits Pune Air Base
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Dec , 2011
Air Chief Marshal NAK Browne, Chief of the Air Staff flew a one hour sortie in a SU-30 MKI at Pune airbase. Addressing the station, he said, “I wanted to be here to not only fly the SU-30...
Japanese Ministry of Defense Announces Plans to Purchase F-35 Aircraft
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Dec , 2011
The Japanese Defense Minister Yasuo Ichikawa has announced the selection of the F-35 Lightning II aircraft for the F-X program. The F-35 is produced by Lockheed Martin and powered by Pratt &...
Boeing South Carolina Site Achieves 787 Weight on Wheels Milestone
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Dec , 2011
Production achievement marks continued momentum on first 787 built at site Boeing announced that its first South Carolina-built 787 put weight on wheels for the first time on Dec. 18. “Our...
Bangladeshi miscreants pelt stones at BSF Jawan
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Dec , 2011
Dr. Manoj Kumar Mohapatra, First Secretary, High Commission of India in Dhaka said that Reports have been received of the deaths of three Bangladesh nationals as a result of firing on the Indian...
Rajya Sabha recommends one rank one pension
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Dec , 2011
The Rajya Sabha Committee on Petition in its report tabled on 19 Dec 2011 strongly recommended the grant of One Rank One Pension (OROP) to the Defence Personnel. It found the Govt contention for...
MBDA Incorporated Purchases Northrop Grumman's Viper Strike Munitions Business
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Dec , 2011
International guided weapons leader MBDA expands its footprint in the United States MBDA Inc., the wholly owned U.S. subsidiary of missile manufacturer MBDA, has purchased Northrop Grumman...
Mexican Air Force takes delivery of Airbus Military C295
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Dec , 2011
The Mexican Air Force has taken delivery of a new C295 aircraft that it ordered from Airbus Military. This order is in addition to the five C295s delivered last year and that the Mexican...