Articles in Net Edition
China's Inner Mongolia: A Jasmine Revolution with a Difference
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Jun , 2011
China’s Inner Mongolia, where Mongolians are in a minority of only 20 per cent of the total population of 23 million, has been going through a Jasmine type Revolution with a difference since May...
Strong presentation of the German Aerospace Industries' Association at the...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Jun , 2011
Achieving a total turnover of 24.7 billion Euros and employing a direct labor force of around 95,400 in 2010, German aerospace industry does not only represent a national key industry. Moreover,...
Indra will exhibit at Paris Air Show Embarked systems on latest-generation...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Jun , 2011
Indra will attend le Bourget Paris Air Show, the main event of the aeronautics sector in Europe, to be held from the 20 to the 26 of June. The company will exhibit its electronic defence and...
MTC Industries and Research to Exhibit at the Paris Air Show 2011
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Jun , 2011
MTC a leading supplier of electro-mechanical products and services to Aerospace, Defense, UAV and Civilian Industries will make its debut appearance at the Paris Air Show in June 2011. MTC will...
Medium Power Radar Arudhra to be inducted in the IAF
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Jun , 2011
Towards enhancing its Air Defence capabilities, the IAF would be inducting the first Medium Power Radar on 03 Jun 2011.In the background of the South Western Air Command’s Commanders’...
US-Pak Counter-Terrorism Cooperation: The Ritual & the Reality
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 May , 2011
Secret commitments by both the political and military leaderships to co-operate with the US in counter-terrorism, ritual denial of such commitments in public statements, dragging the feet in the...
Saab 2000 MPA for Indian Medium Range Maritime Reconnaissance
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 May , 2011
The Saab 2000 multi-role Maritime Patrol Aircraft equipped with the fifth generation AESA and RBS-15 Anti-Ship missiles is being offered to the Indian Navy to meet the growing challenges in...
Headley's Testimony: Points for action by India
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 May , 2011
The detailed testimony of David Coleman Headley of the Chicago cell of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LET) in the case against Tahawuur Hussain Rana and some others being tried in absentia before a Chicago...
Pakistan's China pavilion after the USA's 'Package of Tangible Inducements'
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 May , 2011
Why does Islamabad, Washington’s best ally, so often give sleepless nights to US officials? One can argue that it is a question of reciprocity. The latest one: the Americans made fools of the...
German Armed Forces procure protected Mercedes-Benz Actros Heavy Recovery...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 May , 2011
Mercedes-Benz Special Trucks in Germany has signed a contract with the German Armed Forces for delivery of protected Actros Heavy Recovery Vehicles for immediate use by the German troops in...
How to ward off threats to Pak nuclear arsenal?
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 May , 2011
The daring commando style raid into a Pakistani naval base at Karachi on May 22 by terrorists of the Pakistani Taliban has highlighted once again the poor state of physical security at sensitive...
BATCIS & General Dynamics receives commendation from Chief of Defence...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 May , 2011
The Bowman and Tactical Communications and Information Systems (BATCIS) Experimentation, Research and Operational Support Team, including team members from General Dynamics UK, has received a...
First Lockheed Martin Advanced Block 50 F-16 unveiled for Turkish Air Force
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 May , 2011
Turkish Aerospace Industries, Inc. (TAI) and Lockheed Martin unveiled the first of 30 new Turkish-built F-16s in ceremonies today at TAI’s facility near Ankara. Turkish officials at the event...
The AS350 B3 Helicopter Proves its High-Altitude Performance
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 May , 2011
The AStar family of helicopters has become the platform of choice for a variety of missions throughout the world. From law enforcement to utility and from tour to air medical and Search and...
China: All the way with Pakistan
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 May , 2011
China has gone all the way with Pakistan in the difficult situation being faced by Pakistan in the aftermath of the Abbottabad raid by some US naval commandos on May 2, which led to the death...
Air Marshal NAK Browne will be the next Chief of Air Staff
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 May , 2011
Vice Chief of Air Staff Air Marshal NAK Browne will be the next Chief of Air Staff on the retirement of Air Chief Marshal PV Naik from government service on July 31, 2011. Born in Allahabad on...
UTair'sTraining Center joins Eurocopter Global Training Network
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 May , 2011
Andrei Martirosov, CEO UTair Aviation, and Vladimir Demkin, director of Personnel Training Center (PTC) received from Derek Sharples, Eurocopter Executive Vice President for Support and...
MBDA's PARS 3 LR successfully tested on German Tiger
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 May , 2011
Three firings, three hits! This is the impressive score of the test firing exercise conducted with the PARS 3 LR guided antitank missile system. For the first time, the test firings with...
A Shoddy Counter-Terrorism Data-Base
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 May , 2011
More than two years after the 26/11 terrorist strikes in Mumbai and the setting-up of the National Investigation Agency (NIA), the Government of India continues to have a shoddy...
Sea Viper support contract awarded to MBDA
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 May , 2011
MBDA has been awarded a £165M contract to provide the support for Sea Viper, the Royal Navy’s latest and most modern weapon system. Sea Viper is a world leading area air defence missile system...