Articles in Net Edition
Kuwait Naval Forces renew partnership with DCI
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Nov , 2011
DCI, a service provider with activities on the entire spectrum of defense and domestic security, has a special partnership with the Kuwait Naval Forces that have entrusted DCI-NAVFCO for many...
Eurofighter flying over UAE
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Nov , 2011
Clear blue skies, an RAF Typhoon, a Spartan C-27J, the world’s most famous aviation photographer and a team of enthusiastic pilots and crew – independently, they are all incredible assets at an...
Network Centricity comes to fore in Exercise Sudarshan Shakti
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Nov , 2011
Exercise Sudarshan Shakti, a joint exercise of Southern Army and South Western Air Command has entered its crucial phase. The training was progressively structured to build on from the smallest...
Avoidable Unpleasantness in India-China Relations
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Nov , 2011
Avoidable unpleasantness has recently crept into India-China relations over issues which should not have been over-dramatised by China thereby injecting a certain distrust into the relations...
New Country Director of Thales India
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Nov , 2011
Mr. Eric LENSEIGNE has taken over as the Country Director & Managing Director of Thales India Pvt. Ltd. He will be based in New Delhi. Eric holds Master’s Degrees in Electronic & Signal...
Pakistan's Emergence as the Epicentre of Terrorism
By: Anand K Verma | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Nov , 2011
The idea of Pakistan survives on the premise of enmity towards India. This premise came into existence well before Pakistan became a reality. Some in Pakistan believe that the country started...
Alleged Memo from Zardari to Admiral Mullen
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Nov , 2011
Briefing for Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff During the past 72 hours since a meeting was held between the president, the prime minister and the chief of army staff, there has...
Boeing, Lion Air Announce Historic Commitment for up to 380 737s
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Nov , 2011
Airline to order 201 737 MAXs and 29 Next-Generation 737-900ERs worth $21.7 billion When finalized, order will be the largest ever for Boeing Deal to include purchase rights for an additional...
IAF's inaugural flight of AN-32 lands at Vijayanagar
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Nov , 2011
Hon’ble Governor of Arunachal Pradesh, General (Retd) JJ Singh accompanied by Air Marshal S Varthaman, Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Eastern Air Command inaugurated the Advance Landing Ground...
Pratt & Whitney's PurePower PW1000G engine as one of the 50 Best Inventions...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Nov , 2011
TIME Magazine has named Pratt & Whitney’s PurePower PW1000G engine as one of “The 50 Best Inventions of 2011,” describing it as “the most important development in aviation in 2011.” Pratt &...
Gowind offshore patrol vessel L'Adroit leaves Lorient for Toulon
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Nov , 2011
Eighteen months after construction began, the Gowind offshore patrol vessel L’Adroit, an innovative maritime safety and security platform, has left DCNS’s Lorient shipyard, where it was built,...
Boeing and Northrop Grumman on Final Proposal Submission of Competitive...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Nov , 2011
The Boeing Company and Northrop Grumman Corporation today submitted their final proposal for future work on the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) element of the United States’ ballistic...
Lockheed Martin completes assembly of the first international F-35 for the...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Nov , 2011
The United Kingdom Ministry of Defence will use the short takeoff/vertical landing (STOVL) jet, known as BK-1, for training and operational tests. BK-1 will undergo functional fuel system...
Police killed Ishrat Jahan in Cold Blood
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Nov , 2011
A three-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) headed by Rajiv Ranjan Verma, a senior officer of the Bihar IPS cadre, has concluded that Ishrat Jahan, a 19-year-old girl from Maharashtra, and...
India's New Found Confidence
By: Air Marshal RS Bedi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Nov , 2011
A couple of land mark events have taken place during the last few months; India asserting its rights to explore oil in South China Sea by entering into a contract with the Vietnamese government...
Three Years After 26/11 New Delhi unable to control terror
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Nov , 2011
The 26/11 terrorist strikes led to five important decisions by the Government of India— to decentralise the deployment of the National Security Guards (NSG) by setting up regional hubs,...
Rheinmetall and ADS GmbH demonstrate ADS force protection technology
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Nov , 2011
Rocket-propelled grenades, antitank guided missiles and explosively formed projectiles (a particularly pernicious type of IED) all pose a severe threat to troops deployed in modern conflict and...
Boeing and Singapore Airlines finalize order for eight 777-300ERs
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Nov , 2011
Boeing and Singapore Airlines announced an order for eight additional 777-300 Extended Range (ER) airplanes. The orders were previously recorded on Boeing’s Orders & Deliveries website,...
Sikorsky meets accelerated BLACK HAWK Helicopter deliveries for Sweden
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Nov , 2011
Sikorsky Aircraft, a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp. today delivered to the U.S. Army the fourth of 15 UH-60M BLACK HAWK aircraft for further transfer to the Swedish Defence Material...
Tawazun Precision Industries prepares to enter the MBDA Global Supply Chain
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Nov , 2011
Tawazun Precision Industries (TPI), a Tawazun Holding subsidiary specialised in the manufacture of metallic components for Aerospace/ Aviation, Defence, and Oil & Gas industries, has entered...