Articles in Issues
DRDO's Rustom-1 Test Flown
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol 26.1 Jan-Mar 2011 | Date: 10 Feb , 2011
India’s ambitious Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) programme received a major boost when the second flight of the Rustom-1 technology demonstrator UAV was conducted successfully at the facility of...
First Tata-Sikorsky Copter Cabin
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol 26.1 Jan-Mar 2011 | Date: 10 Feb , 2011
Tata Advanced Systems Limited, which rolled out the country’s first made-in-India Sikorksy S-92 helicopter cabin from the Aerospace SEZ in Andhra Pradesh, now has plans to set up another...
Boeing Receives Indian P-8I Equipment
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol 26.1 Jan-Mar 2011 | Date: 10 Feb , 2011
In the second week of December 2010, Boeing received a key sensor technology for the Indian Navy’s P-8I long-range maritime reconnaissance and anti-submarine warfare aircraft from Bharat...
Aerospace and Defence News - 2
By: Priya Tyagi | Issue: Vol 26.1 Jan-Mar 2011 | Date: 10 Feb , 2011
Attack Helicopter Sale to India The US Department of Defence is asking the Congress to approve a possible $1.4 billion sale of 22 AH-64D Apache Block III attack helicopters to India, prior to a...
CASSIDIAN opens new Engineering Centre in Bengaluru
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Feb , 2011
Cassidian, the defence and security division of EADS, has opened a new Engineering Centre in Bengaluru, India. This is the first defence oriented engineering centre operated by a foreign company...
British Defence Minister announces contract between India's HAL and General...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Feb , 2011
General Dynamics UK has signed its first contract with an Indian customer, delivering an innovative approach to sharing its Intellectual Property (IP) with its Indian partner. The company signed...
Boeing Announces Expanded Partnership with India
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Feb , 2011
The Boeing Company announced plans to further deepen its relations with suppliers and partners in India. The company has outlined a comprehensive strategy to develop India’s industrial...
Saab establishing Research and Development Centre in India
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Feb , 2011
During Aero India in Bangalore, Saab announced the establishment of a Research and Development Centre in India. With the establishment of this Research & Development Centre Saab will create a...
Air Works Appointed as Authorized Rockwell Collins Dealer
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Feb , 2011
Air Works India Engineering Pvt. Ltd today announced that it has been appointed as an authorized dealer by Rockwell Collins, a leading provider of communication and aviation electronic...
PTC Reinforces Commitment to Enterprise Customers in India
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Feb , 2011
PTC announced that it has selected ITC Infotech, a global IT services company and a fully owned subsidiary of USD 6 bn+ ITC Ltd., as a Strategic Services Partner (SSP) for PTC’s enterprise...
AgustaWestland Signs Contracts for Two More AW139s in India
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Feb , 2011
AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica company, is pleased to announce that it has sold two more AW139 medium twin helicopters to customers in India. Adani Group has signed a contract for one AW139 to...
Finmeccanica to take part in Aero India 2011: a global partner for the Indian
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Feb , 2011
Finmeccanica – through its Operating Companies AgustaWestland, Alenia Aeronautica, DRS Technologies, SELEX Communications and SELEX Galileo – will take part in Aero India 2011, to be held in...
Elbit successfully performs Joint Flight Missions of Hermes 450 and Hermes...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Feb , 2011
Elbit Systems announced today that it successfully performed a series of joint flight missions of its Hermes® 450 and Hermes® 900 Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). The two different UAS were...
Northrop supports broadening of technology transfer
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol 26.1 Jan-Mar 2011 | Date: 09 Feb , 2011
Interview with William J Schaefer, Sector Vice President, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems. Could you please outline the global profile of the company and briefly describe the history of its...
Boeing Committed to long term partnership
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol 26.1 Jan-Mar 2011 | Date: 09 Feb , 2011
Interview with Richard S. McCrary, Director International Business Development, Boeing Military Aircraft. The F/A 18A, the forerunner of the Super Hornet was rolled out in 1978. What is the...
Cassidian creates strategic partnerships with India
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol 26.1 Jan-Mar 2011 | Date: 09 Feb , 2011
Cassidian considers India as a key market with an expanding defence and security industry and even more so as a rapidly growing country which offers excellent opportunities for long-lasting...
Aerospace and Defence News - 3
By: Priya Tyagi | Issue: Vol 26.1 Jan-Mar 2011 | Date: 09 Feb , 2011
Apart from the $4.1 billion deal for ten Boeing C-17 Globemaster III heavy airlift aircraft, India is considering purchase of another six for an estimated value of $2.4 billion. This is expected...
GE Engine to Power Tejas LCA Mk II
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol 26.1 Jan-Mar 2011 | Date: 09 Feb , 2011
With GE Aviation bagging the contract to supply the power plant for the Tejas LCA, the US has clearly stolen a march over the Europeans in the lucrative Indian defence market. GE had offered its...
India needs independent defence think tanks
By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman | Issue: Vol 23.3 Jul-Sep 2008 | Date: 07 Feb , 2011
During his address at the 42nd Foundation Day function of the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA), the Vice President of India, Mr M Hamid Ansari stressed the need for structured...
The Fragile Af-Pak Policy
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Vol 24.4 Oct-Dec 2009 | Date: 07 Feb , 2011
With each passing day, it is becoming increasingly obvious that the Obama administration’s so-called Af–Pak policy is simply not working. The fraudulent Presidential elections in Afghanistan,...