Articles in Net Edition
GKN Aerospace at Aero India
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Jan , 2013
Fuel and emergency flotation technologies lead the GKN Aerospace display at Aero India, 2013 GKN Aerospace’s display at Aero India, 2013 (Hall B, Stand 4.15) is focused on developments across...
Maini Group outlines expansion plans at Aero India 2013
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Jan , 2013
The Maini Group today announced that it would be sharing details regarding its expansion plans at The Aero India 2013. The group has acquired industrial land in preparation for its expansion of...
Airbus Military Participates at Aero India 2013
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Jan , 2013
Airbus Military will participate at the Aero India 2013 exhibition commencing February 6, at the Air Force station, Yelahanka, Bengaluru. Programme officials will be available to discuss the A330...
US Judgement - The Shoe Bomber is sentenced
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Jan , 2013
Richard Colvin Reid (born 12 August 1973), also known as the Shoe Bomber, is a British citizen who attempted to detonate American Airlines Flight 63 from Paris to Miami, wearing shoes packed...
How Pakistan Army plotted Kargil War: Najam Sethi
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Jan , 2013
In the following three videos, Najam Sethi, Editor Friday Times, Pakistan, makes candid revelations on how the Pakistan Army plotted to occupy the Kargil Heights clandestinely. The plan by...
Cases of Headley & Rana: What Next?
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Jan , 2013
The Ministry of Home Affairs of the Government of India has been less than honest with the public by trying to convey an impression that it will continue to try for the extradition of David...
Pakistan the nettlesome neighbour
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Jan , 2013
India-Pakistan ties: Pakistan has to act like a civilised country and do serious introspection about its destructive attitudes and policies. We need to take proper stock of our policy towards...
Boeing Delivers Indian Air Force's 1st C-17 Globemaster
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Jan , 2013
Program on schedule to deliver 5 airlifters in 2013 and 5 in 2014 Boeing on Jan. 22 delivered – on schedule – the first of 10 C-17 Globemaster III airlifters for the Indian Air Force (IAF)....
Eurofighter to Secure Airspace during World Economic Forum
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Jan , 2013
Eurofighter belonging to the Austrian Armed Forces will be used to secure the airspace during the World Economic Forum 2013 in Davos. As part of the airspace surveillance operation „Daedalus...
Mahindra and BAE join hands in India
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Jan , 2013
Since the establishment in 2009 of the Mahindra & Mahindra (74%) and BAE Systems (26%) Joint Venture, Defence Land Systems India (DLSI), both shareholders recognise that significant evolution has...
Bangalore Gears up to Host Aero India - 2013
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Jan , 2013
The Defence Minister AK Antony would inaugurate the Ninth Edition of Aero India on 06 February 2013 at Air Force Station Yelahanka in Bangalore. Organised by Department of Defence Production...
India’s first Naval Offshore Patrol Vessel (NOPV) INS Saryu Commissioned
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Jan , 2013
Air Marshal PK Roy, Commander-in-Chief, Andaman and Nicobar Command, commissioned INS Saryu into the Indian Navy at Goa today. INS Saryu is the lead ship of the indigenous Naval Offshore Patrol...
Veneration of a fallen enemy: A Missionary View
By: Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Jan , 2013
Professional soldiers mutilate none, dead or alive, enemy or friend. Indeed, a martyred enemy is an object of sombre empathy and deep veneration. Pakistan Army soldiers – most of them – are highly...
India- Pak dialogue, futile exercise
By: Lt Gen Vijay Oberoi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Jan , 2013
The killing, and more importantly, savage mutilation of two soldiers of the Indian Army on the Line of Control ( LoC) has put a big question mark on the ‘ on- again/ off- again’ dialogue the two...
Sagem delivers infrared binoculars to French army
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Jan , 2013
Sagem (Safran) delivered the first 150 JIM LR 2 multifunction long-range infrared binoculars to the French army, in line with the original delivery schedule. This delivery was part of the JIR TTA...
Dutch armed forces to continue close cooperation with Rheinmetalls
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Jan , 2013
The Rheinmetall Group of Düsseldorf and the Dutch armed forces have agreed to extend an existing agreement for the supply of various ammunition types in close cooperation between Rheinmetall and...
Boeing Statement on Federal Aviation Administration 787 Action
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Jan , 2013
Boeing Chairman, President and CEO Jim McNerney issued the following statement today after the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued an emergency airworthiness directive that requires...
Elbit selected to provide the U.S. Army with Skylark
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Jan , 2013
Elbit Systems Ltd. announced that Elbit Systems of America, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Elbit Systems, has been selected for award by the U.S. Army ACC-APG, Natick Contracting Division on...
Shamelessly, business as usual with Pakistan
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Jan , 2013
“PM gives ‘tough message’ to Pakistan” says the media. Did he by the meek remark of ‘business cannot be as usual’, delivered in characteristic apologetic body language? The fact this...
Pak savagery on the Line of Control in J&K
By: Lt Gen Harwant Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Jan , 2013
Pakistani troops crossed the Line of control ( LoC ) in the Poonch Sector of J and K and killed two India soldiers. It is not so much the killing but the savage act and heinous crime of mutilating...