Articles By IDR News Network
Navy Officers Cadets complete training
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Dec , 2010
169 Officer Cadets of the Indian Navy including 32 Assistant Commandants of Indian Coast Guard successfully completed their afloat training onboard the First Training Squadron today, at Kochi....
A major milestone for Eurocopter's X3 hybrid helicopter
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Dec , 2010
Step 1 speed objective of 180 kts is attained ahead of schedule for this innovative rotary-wing aircraft. Eurocopter’s X3 high-speed hybrid helicopter demonstrator, which performed its maiden...
DCNS Chairman visits Mazagon Docks
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Dec , 2010
The visit of President Sarkozy gives an opportunity to reaffirm the close and dynamic ties existing between the Indian industries and the DCNS Group. The visit of President Sarkozy gives an...
Boeing team begins building Indian Navy's 1st P-8I aircraft
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Dec , 2010
The Boeing P-8I team began fabricating the first part for the Indian navy’s first long-range maritime reconnaissance and anti-submarine warfare aircraft on Dec. 6 in Wichita. The P-8I, based on...
DST-Lockheed Martin India Innovation Growth Programme crosses 100-deal mark
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Dec , 2010
The DST-Lockheed Martin India Innovation Growth Programme achieved a major milestone today by crossing the 100-deal mark of commercialization agreements signed by the winners of this unique...
PUMA-infantry fighting vehicle: sets the new standard
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Dec , 2010
Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) and Rheinmetall handed over on December 6th in time the first two PUMA infantry fighting vehicles to the Federal Office of Defense Technology and Procurement (BWB) in...
Boeing Receives US Army Contract for Tactical Intelligence Aircraft
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Dec , 2010
Boeing announced that it has received a two-year engineering and manufacturing development contract for the Enhanced Medium Altitude Reconnaissance and Surveillance System (EMARSS) from the U.S....
MBDA delivers 600th Taurus KEPD 350 to German Luftwaffe
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Dec , 2010
TAURUS System GmbH (TSG), a subsidiary of LFK-Lenkflugkörpersysteme GmbH (MBDA Deutschland) and Saab Dynamics, has delivered the 600th missile to the German Federal Office of Defence Technology...
AgustaWestland Holds the First AW109 LUH/LOH Operators Conference
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Dec , 2010
AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica company, is pleased to announce that over 40 delegates attended the first AgustaWestland AW109 LUH/LOH Operators Conference recently held at AgustaWestland’s...
South Korea selects Lockheed Martin
By: IDR News Network | Date: 03 Dec , 2010
Lockheed Martin has signed a contract with the Republic of Korea to provide the nation four C-130J Super Hercules aircraft. Korea’s new Super Hercules will be the longer fuselage or “stretched”...
Private Industry to Have its Share in Tactical Communication System: Raksha...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Dec , 2010
“One of the most prestigious communications project conceived by the Corps (of Signals), the Tactical Communication System (TCS) is well on the way,” said Raksha Rajya Mantri, Shri MM Pallam...
Indian Navy to sanitize Eastern Arabian Sea
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Dec , 2010
A multi ship force of the Indian Navy has been tasked to undertake a comprehensive search in the Eastern parts of the Arabian Sea to locate and disable probable pirate (mother) vessels and...
Super Hornets for Royal Australian Air Force
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Nov , 2010
Six new Boeing F/A-18F Super Hornets arrived at Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Base Amberley on July 06, expanding the RAAF’s fleet of Super Hornets to 11. The first five had arrived in March...
Boeing in USAF Tanker Deal
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Nov , 2010
Boeing claims that its offer for the USAF tanker program, based on its 767, would satisfy all 372 mandatory USAF requirements. The Company said its offering would be more cost-effective to own...
Advanced Air Defence Missile Test-fired
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Nov , 2010
India has successfully test-fired the indigenously developed single-stage, interceptor Advanced Air Defence (AAD) missile, destroying a ‘hostile’ ballistic missile fired from the Integrated Test...
Hovercraft for Indian Coast Guard
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Nov , 2010
With 12 more hovercraft likely to be inducted in the Coast Guard in the next three years, the agency’s eastern region is likely to purchase two such craft at a cost of Rs 8 crore each and base...
India test fires nuclear capable strategic ballistic missile Agni-I
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Nov , 2010
India test-fired its nuclear-capable Agni-I strategic ballistic missile on 25-Nov, with a range of 700 kilometers off the Orissa coast. The missile was launched as part of the Army’s user trial...
Boeing offers new Surveillance Detection System
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Nov , 2010
The Boeing Company announced that it has begun offering a Surveillance Detection System (SDS) capable of near real-time, 360-degree detection of optical threats. The system identifies when...
IAF to develop airbase in northern region
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Nov , 2010
The Indian Air Force’s Western Air Command (WAC) decided to develop its airbase and landing ground infrastructure in the entire northern region, particular in Jammu and Kashmir. On the last day...
1st National Electronic Warfare workshop in Bangalore
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Nov , 2010
Modern day war cannot be won without Electronic warfare system and hence India is developing its own state of the art Electronic warfare system by 2013. Dr.Prahlada, Chief Controller, R and D of...