Articles in Issues
South Korea orders its 100th Sigma 40 navigation system from Sagem
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Oct , 2012
South Korea has ordered its 100th shipborne Sigma 40 inertial navigation system from Sagem (Safran group), confirming its confidence in the system’s laser gyro technology. The Sigma 40 is a...
Boeing-COMAC Technology Center Announces First Biofuel Research Project
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Oct , 2012
Hangzhou Energy Engineering & Technology will find ways to convert waste cooking oil for use as jet fuel A newly formed technology center created by Boeing and Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China...
Sagem wins major contract to supply Vigy Observer optronic systems
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Oct , 2012
Sagem (Safran group) has signed a contract to supply 80 Vigy Observer optronic systems for the navy’s new fast interceptor craft. It won the contract against an international field of...
New standards for Towed Guns
By: Mark Huntiller | Issue: EDR Vol. March/April 2012 | Date: 23 Oct , 2012
Many experts and talented observers predicted that towed guns would be completely replaced in coming decades by automotive-mounted arms, with truck-mounted pieces and howitzers seen as the...
India and the European Aerospace Industry
By: Gp Capt AK Sachdev | Issue: Vol 26.1 Jan-Mar 2011 | Date: 22 Oct , 2012
After the nightmare of recession, the airline industry is convincingly on the path to recovery. The mood in European as indeed, in the global aviation industry, is definitely upbeat. In fact, the...
Defending the Indian Skies
By: Air Marshal Raghu Rajan | Issue: Vol. 27.2 Apr-Jun 2012 | Date: 22 Oct , 2012
Air or Aerospace Defence provides a secure foundation for the safe and effective launch of aircraft and missiles to tackle an airborne or space-based intruder. Besides, the sharp end comprising...
India, Tibet, China: The contending triumvirate
By: Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Oct , 2012
“When there is everything to fear, be unafraid. When without resources, depend on resourcefulness”, – Sun Tsu. The territorial dispute in the Trans-Himalayan Region is a legacy of the eternal...
Implications of China's Rise
By: Maj Gen Sheru Thapliyal, PhD | Issue: Vol 25.3 Jul-Sep 2010 | Date: 20 Oct , 2012
The English geographer Sir Halford Mackinder ended his famous 1904 article, “The Geographical Pivot of History,” with a disturbing reference to China. After explaining why Eurasia was the...
US Aerospace Industry and India
By: Air Marshal BK Pandey | Issue: Vol 26.1 Jan-Mar 2011 | Date: 16 Oct , 2012
Apart from the stated objective of propelling the strategic partnership between India and the US to a new level, perhaps the more important agenda for Barack Obama, President of the United...
Najam Sethi on New Great Game in Central Asia
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Oct , 2012
In this two part video Najam Sethi, Editor Friday Times, Pakistan, explains the importance of Central Asian Republics due to it being rich in energy resources and their geographical locations. He...
A Vision of Maritime India 2020
By: Admiral Arun Prakash (Retd.) | Issue: Vol 22.1 Jan - Mar 2007 | Date: 13 Oct , 2012
“What ship? Where bound?” is the traditional nautical query that goes out on the air when a warship encounters a stranger on the high seas. Recently an Indian Navy frigate on passage to the...
The Helicopter as a Combat Platform
By: Gp Capt AK Sachdev | Issue: Vol. 27.2 Apr-Jun 2012 | Date: 13 Oct , 2012
Development of the pure helicopter remained painstakingly slow. The first closed circuit kilometre was flown by a helicopter only in 1924, more than 16 years after the first rotary wing flight....
Israel Aerospace and India
By: Gp Capt Joseph Noronha | Issue: Vol 26.1 Jan-Mar 2011 | Date: 13 Oct , 2012
IAI: Aiming High : What is remarkable about Israel is that despite its size and less-than-friendly neighbours—one of whom regularly threatens annihilation—it continues to survive. The country...
India has no reason to trust China
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Oct , 2012
We have to deal with China pragmatically, within the framework of our serious political differences and opportunities for economic engagement. China has grown into a formidable economic power,...
Army Aviation: A dream to realise
By: Air Vice Marshal AK Tiwary | Issue: Vol. 27.2 Apr-Jun 2012 | Date: 13 Oct , 2012
Helicopters have tremendous usage, both in times of peace as well as war. Also, they can be used across a wide spectrum of conflict from low-scale counter-insurgency operations to full-fledged...
American elections: No impact on ties with India
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Oct , 2012
The upcoming presidential election in the United States lacks the excitement of the election four years ago when Barack Obama made history by being the first black person ever to occupy the White...
Boeing Delivers to Air India First South Carolina-built 787 Dreamliner
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Oct , 2012
Delivery is third 787 for Air India Boeing marked a historic milestone with delivery to Air India of the first 787 Dreamliner built at its North Charleston facility. “We’re delighted to be...
3rd Boeing GPS IIF Satellite Ready for Launch
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Oct , 2012
SVN-65 to further enhance constellation’s power, precision and capacity The third of 12 Global Positioning System (GPS) IIF satellites Boeing is building for the U.S. Air Force is ready to make...
MKU, India authorises Tactical Products Group, Inc. to sell its NIJ 06 body...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Oct , 2012
MKU, India’s leading manufacturer and supplier of ballistic protection and surveillance equipment for armed forces, paramilitary forces and police worldwide authorised Tactical Products Group,...
Boeing High Energy Laser Mobile Demonstrator
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Oct , 2012
Solid-state directed energy system will provide critical defense capabilities against projectile and airborne threats Under a follow-on contractual effort from the U.S. Army Space and Missile...