Articles By IDR News Network
Boeing CHAMP Missile Completes 1st Flight Test
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Sep , 2011
Boeing, Air Force Research Laboratory team on nonlethal microwave weapon The Boeing Company and the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory Counter-electronics High-powered Microwave Advanced...
Sagem to modernize navigation system on South Korea's KSS-1 submarines
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Sep , 2011
After a hard-fought international competition, Sagem (Safran group) was chosen by the South Korean Defense Ministry’s Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) to modernize the...
Boeing, US Army Celebrate $130 Million Investment in CH-47 Chinook...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Sep , 2011
The Boeing Company and the U.S. Army celebrated the opening of the newly renovated H-47 Chinook manufacturing facility today. The event coincided with the 50th anniversary of the H-47 Chinook’s...
German Army orders KMW's 31 MUNGO 2 Multi-purpose vehicles
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Sep , 2011
Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW), Europe´s market leader for highly protected wheeled and tracked vehicles, has received an order from the German Army for the assembly and delivery of 31 further...
DCNS conducts further sea trials with BPC Dixmude
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Sep , 2011
DCNS began new sea trials on 19 September with BPC Dixmude, the French Navy’s third Mistral-class force projection and command vessel, which was ordered by the French defence procurement agency...
F-35 Program Completes Static Structural Testing
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Sep , 2011
Lockheed Martin’s F-35 program has successfully completed static structural testing, achieving one of five milestones established by the Joint Program Office for 2011. Static structural testing...
Boeing forecasts strong need for Aviation Personnel in Asia Pacific
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Sep , 2011
Boeing forecasts the Asia Pacific region will require hundreds of thousands of new commercial airline pilots and technicians over the next 20 years to support airline fleet modernization and the...
MBDA Readies Fire Shadow on back of Programme Successes
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Sep , 2011
The Fire Shadow weapon system has successfully completed a series of demonstration trials and two more successful firings in a ground breaking rapid development programme that was launched in...
Indian Mujahideen objective, an Islamic Caliphate across South Asia, says USA
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Sep , 2011
The Secretary of State designated the Indian Mujahideen (IM) as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) under Section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act and as a Specially Designated...
Golden Jubilee Celebration of INS Hansa
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Sep , 2011
INS Hansa, Indian Navy’s premier Air station and fighter training squadron INAS 551 celebrate their Golden Jubilee on 05 Sep 11 on completion of 50 years of distinguished service to the...
French Aerospace Companies to attend Indo-French Technology Meet
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Sep , 2011
On the Occasion of the Indo-French Technology Meet 2011 organized by Ubifrance and the French Trade Commission in India, the ICT-Services and Aerospace Department of Ubifrance in collaboration...
Air Marshal Jagdish Chandra takes over as AOC-in-C, Maintenance Command, IAF
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Sep , 2011
Air Marshal Jagdish Chandra has taken over as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief (AOC-in-C) of Maintenance Command at its Nagpur Headquarters today, i.e., on 01 Sep 11. Air Mshl J...
US and Indian scientists share cutting-edge forensic expertise
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Aug , 2011
The United States’ Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Indian Ministry of Home Affairs on Friday, August 26, concluded a two-week seminar with 20 top Indian forensic scientists, with...
Boeing and Delta Air Lines Announce Order for 100 Next-Generation 737-900ERs
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Aug , 2011
Boeing and Delta Air Lines announced an order for 100 Next-Generation 737-900ER (extended range) airplanes. The order, with a list–price value of more than $8.5 billion, is part of Delta’s fleet...
Eurofighter Typhoon on QRA interception training with new Lufthansa A380
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Aug , 2011
After Vienna’s Mayor Dr. Häupl christened the new Lufthansa A380 “Wien” at the hub of Austrian Airlines, two Austrian Eurofighters conducted a QRA training interception of the new Airbus on its...
Joint venture between German HDW and French DCNS shipyard ruled out
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Aug , 2011
In response to persistent speculation about the formation of a joint venture by ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems and the French shipyards group DCNS or a merger of the two companies, ThyssenKrupp AG...
New Air Chief Marshal NAK Browne shares his vision
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Aug , 2011
Air Chief Marshal NAK Browne, took over as the 23rd Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), from Air Chief Marshal PV Naik, who retires after 42 years of illustrious service, at Air Headquarters, Vayu...
Thales and Dassault to upgrade IAF Mirage 2000 fleet
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Jul , 2011
Thales and Dassault Aviation signed a contract for the upgrade of the Indian Air Force’s Mirage 2000 fleet. Based on the integration of latest generation equipment and systems, the upgrade will...
Boeing Vice President Dennis Swanson to Grow Defense Business in India
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Jul , 2011
Dennis Swanson to enhance customer focus and industry relationships, pursue new sales opportunities The Boeing Company announced that Dennis D. Swanson has been named International Business...
Sikorsky Delivers 300th UH-60M BLACK HAWK Helicopter to U.S. Army
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Jul , 2011
Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. today announced the delivery of the 300th UH-60M BLACK HAWK helicopter to the U.S. Army. Sikorsky is a United Technologies Corp. (NYSE:UTX) company. “The war-fighter has...