Articles in Net Edition
AgustaWestland at Heli-Expo 2013
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Mar , 2013
AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica company, will be displaying four of its advanced high performance helicopters on stand #2115 at Heli Expo 2013, which is being held at the Las Vegas Convention...
Air Marshal Daljit Singh takes over as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief HQ...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Mar , 2013
Air Marshal Daljit Singh AVSM VM took over as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, of South Western Air Command (SWAC) Gandhi Nagar 01 Mar 13. On taking over, the Air Mshl inspected a ceremonial...
Rolls-Royce to Power US Navy Fleet of New Hovercraft
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Mar , 2013
Rolls-Royce of UK secured a contract to provide gas turbines for the US Navy’s future fleet of hovercraft. The Ship-to-Shore Connector (SSC) will replace the current naval fleet of Landing Craft...
Indian Navy Receives First Boeing P8I
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Mar , 2013
The Indian Navy has taken on-site delivery of the first of the Boeing P-8I Long-Range Maritime Reconnaissance and Anti-Submarine Warfare aircraft ordered in January 2009. Indian Navy pilots are...
Typhoons, Hawks from BAE Systems for Oman
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Mar , 2013
The Royal Air Force of Oman has agreed to a $4.1 billion purchase of 12 Typhoon and eight Hawk advanced trainer aircraft from BAE Systems. The deal calls for BAE Systems to provide in-service...
GE to Acquire Italy’s Avio
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Mar , 2013
GE has agreed to purchase the Italy-based aviation propulsion components manufacturer Avio S.p.A. for $4.3 billion subject to regulatory and government approval. Avio has been co-owned since 2006...
Bell Helicopter- Dynamatic Technologies Collaboration
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Mar , 2013
Bell Helicopter, a part of Textron Inc of the USA, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Bangalore-based Dynamatic Technologies under which the latter company will act as a...
Air Marshal SB Deo takes over as DG AIR (Ops) at Air Headquarters
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Mar , 2013
Air Marshal Shirish Baban Deo, AVSM VM VSM takes over as Director General Air (Operations) today at Air Headquarters (Vayu Bhavan) New Delhi. He was commissioned in the fighter stream on 15 Jun 79...
The scourge of terror attacks
By: Lt Gen Raj Kadyan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Mar , 2013
The multiple bomb blasts in Dilsukhnagar area of Hyderabad on 21 Feb 2013 are undoubtedly part of a continuing process. Almost 20 such blasts have occurred in various parts of the country in the...
RAW Operations in Pakistan
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Feb , 2013
‘The Hindu” of February 26, 2013, has carried an article titled “ No Solace In This Quantum of Accountability” written by Samir Saran, Vice-President, and Abhijit Iyer-Mitra, Programme...
Failing On Terror Yet Again
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Feb , 2013
Hyderabad is bloodied again by terrorism, exposing once more our failure to marshal the political will, the legal instruments, the organizational structure and the required technical skills and...
AgustaWestland is ready for full cooperation
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Feb , 2013
With reference to the Indian Ministry of Defence’s request for information regarding the AW101 contract, received last week, AgustaWestland confirms it is responding to the notice in the spirit...
South Korea Seeking to Buy Apaches, Cobras
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Feb , 2013
The US Defense Security Cooperation Agency has notified the Congress of a request from the Republic of Korea for a pair of helicopter fleet purchases through the Foreign Military Sales (FMS)...
US Navy awarded Contract to Northrop Grumman for Fire Scout
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Feb , 2013
In October 2012, the US Navy awarded Northrop Grumman a $28 million contract in support of the MQ-8B Fire Scout. The agreement covers non-recurring engineering support, obsolescence efforts and...
Hydrabad Blasts
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Feb , 2013
Eleven persons are reported to have been killed and over 87 injured in two well-timed explosions in the Dilsukhnagar area of Hyderabad around 7 PM on February 21,2013. Initial reports indicated...
Boeing receives US Air Force contract for Integrated C4ISR Targeting Solution
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Feb , 2013
Line of Sight – Short (LOS-S) provides hand-held, all-in-one targeting system Boeing will provide the U.S. Air Force with a lightweight, compact laser targeting system designed to improve the...
Stinger Missiles for India
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Feb , 2013
The US is offering 245 Stinger missiles and 56 launchers to India as part of a weapons package for the Apache attack helicopters being acquired by the Indian Air Force (IAF). India has selected...
‘Astra’ Interceptor Missile Test-Fired
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Feb , 2013
On January 21, 2012, the indigenously developed Astra, the Beyond Visual Range (BVR) air-to-air interceptor missile was successfully test-fired in a development trial from the Integrated Test...
Russian Helicopters in India
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Feb , 2013
During President Vladimir Putin’s recent visit to India, Elcom Systems Pvt. Ltd. India and Russian Helicopters holding entered into an agreement to set up a Joint Venture to assemble Russian Mil...
Who is the biggest enemy – China, Pakistan or Babus?
By: Maj Gen Satbir Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Feb , 2013
The Ministry of Defence had itself accepted through affidavits and submissions before the SC that implementation of the judgement in rank and pay would involve re-fixation of not only the Fourth...