Articles in Net Edition
Upcoming at Paris Air Show: New Fiber to the Screen Solution
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Jun , 2011
TE Connectivity (TE) introduces the new Fiber To The Screen (FTTS) fiber-optic backbone and interconnect scheme for in-flight entertainment systems. This new system allows the most efficient...
Military Airbus C295 with AEW&C Rotodome completes maiden flight
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Jun , 2011
The first Airbus Military C295 development aircraft fitted with an Airbone Early Warning sand Command (AEW&C) rotodome has successfully completed its first flight on 7th June 2011 at Airbus...
Upgraded AN-32 RE Aircaft inducted into IAF
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Jun , 2011
Four of the first batch of five AN-32 tactical transport aircraft that recently underwent ‘total technical life extension’ (TTLE), overhaul and re-equipment at Ukraine were inducted into the...
Balochistan: Greater Realism in China and Iran
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Jun , 2011
Independently of each other, China and Iran seem to be developing doubts in their mind about the ability of the Pakistani Armed Forces to restore normalcy in Balochistan and put down the Baloch...
Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental and Freighter to Debut at Paris Air Show
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Jun , 2011
Boeing’s two new 747-8 airplane models – the Intercontinental passenger version and the Freighter version – will make their international debuts at the Paris Air Show, joining the innovative 787...
Controp is launching M-STAMP - a breakthrough option for SUAVs at Paris Air...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Jun , 2011
CONTROP has added a new product which was recently developed and has already being procured: the new M-STAMP – a multi sensor payload for small UAVs! Due to the fact that SUAV manufacturers are...
DCNS presents latest underwater innovations at UDT Europe 2011
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Jun , 2011
The 2011 edition of the annual UDT Europe show – a leading forum for the international undersea defence community – will be held in London, UK, from 7 to 9 June. DCNS specialists will present...
DCNS India signed an indigenization contract under the Scorpene submarines...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Jun , 2011
The Contract was signed between Flash Forge India Pvt. Ltd., based in Visakhapatnam, and DCNS India Pvt. Ltd. The production by the shipyard Mazagon Dock Ltd. (MDL) of six SSK Scorpene...
US welcomes news of historic sale of ten C-17 Aircraft to India
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Jun , 2011
The United States Government welcomed the media reports of the sale of ten Boeing C-17 Globemaster III aircraft to the Indian Air Force (IAF). The acquisition will significantly boost the Indian...
IAF Develops Accident Probability Factor Calculator
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Jun , 2011
Flight Safety or Aerospace Safety is an ongoing concern for all organisations involved in aviation. In recent times, significant progress has been made in the field of flight safety in terms of...
Terrorists on the run after killing of Ilyas Kashmiri?
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Jun , 2011
The USA’s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has not allowed the death of Osama bin Laden in a raid by US naval commandos at his hide-out at Abbottabad on May 2,2011,to slow down its hunt for...
The Dangers of Robotic Militarization
By: Tejas Patel | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Jun , 2011
As India prepares to induct more unmanned aircraft systems (UAS – with defensive and offensive capabilities) to neutralize future threats from Pakistan and China, a new report from Britain’s...
Arudhra Medium Power Radar inducted in the IAF
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Jun , 2011
Air Chief Marshal PV Naik, Chief of the Air Staff today inducted the first Medium Power Radar (MPR), named Arudhra by the IAF at Air Force Station Naliya in Gujrat. At Naliya, an airbase which...
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...