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Navy Officers Cadets complete training

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....

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A major milestone for Eurocopter's X3 hybrid helicopter

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...

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DCNS Chairman visits Mazagon Docks

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...

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Boeing team begins building Indian Navy's 1st P-8I aircraft

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...

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DST-Lockheed Martin India Innovation Growth Programme crosses 100-deal mark

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...

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PUMA-infantry fighting vehicle: sets the new standard

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...

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Boeing Receives US Army Contract for Tactical Intelligence Aircraft

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....

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MBDA delivers 600th Taurus KEPD 350 to German Luftwaffe

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...

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AgustaWestland Holds the First AW109 LUH/LOH Operators Conference

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...

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South Korea selects Lockheed Martin

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”...

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Private Industry to Have its Share in Tactical Communication System: Raksha...

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...

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Indian Navy to sanitize Eastern Arabian Sea

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...

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Super Hornets for Royal Australian Air Force

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...

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Boeing in USAF Tanker Deal

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...

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Advanced Air Defence Missile Test-fired

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...

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Hovercraft for Indian Coast Guard

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...

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India test fires nuclear capable strategic ballistic missile Agni-I

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...

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Boeing offers new Surveillance Detection System

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...

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IAF to develop airbase in northern region

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...

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1st National Electronic Warfare workshop in Bangalore

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...

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