Articles in Net Edition
Rheinmetall Defence on course for sustainable growth
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Nov , 2010
At Rheinmetall Defence, the first nine months of the fiscal year were strongly marked by increasing internationalization and the targeted expansion of operations, for example through the joint...
Honeywell T-Hawk: Hover and Stare capability provides real-time surveillance
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Nov , 2010
Honeywell announced that its T-Hawk Micro Air Vehicle, the only fielded unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with hover and stare surveillance capability, has recorded its 10,000th flight since...
Boeing SkyTerra 1 Satellite Sends 1st Signals from Space
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Nov , 2010
Boeing has received the first on-orbit signals from LightSquared’s SkyTerra 1 following the satellite’s launch at 12:29 p.m. Eastern time on Nov. 14 on an International Launch Services Proton...
Elbit Systems' EEMTraining System Inaugurated by Israeli Home Front Command
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Nov , 2010
The Israeli Home Front Command (HFC) recently inaugurated Elbit Systems’ Emergency Events Management Training System (the System) by holding its first large scale exercise. The System is...
Maoists: Enemies of India
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Nov , 2010
The anti-national character of the Maoists was quite evident during the Independence Day celebration and in the run-up to it. In Bengal, they burnt the National Flag. In Bihar, they gave a call...
Wen to combine visit to Pakistan with visit to India?
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Nov , 2010
Pakistani agency journalists accompanying President Asif Ali Zardari on his present visit to Guangzhou in China to attend the inaugural function of the 16th Asian Games, have reported that...
China : Is it enough to just watch?
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Nov , 2010
Foreign Minister SM Krishna says he is ‘watchful on China projects near border’. According to newspapers’ reports: “India asserted that it keeps a ‘constant watch’ on all developments having a...
MBDA's new Mine Clearing System for mobility support mission
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Nov , 2010
The mine clearing system, SOUVIM 2, has been developed by MBDA for mobility support missions. These missions are served by carrying out the rapid opening of long stretches of mined routes at the...
Obama's visit : US, India & China
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Nov , 2010
On his way to China in November,2009, President Barack Obama had made his first halt in Japan to underline the importance attached by him to the USA’s relations with Japan, with which it has a...
Boeing Opens New P-8 Production Facility in Seattle
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Nov , 2010
Boeing celebrated the opening of a new P-8 aircraft production facility near Boeing Field in Seattle. The refurbished factory gives Boeing and its P-8 teammates the space they need to install...
Nuclear capability of India and China
By: Col R Hariharan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Nov , 2010
A comparison of nuclear capability of India and China cannot be made in isolation. It has to be derived in the backdrop of their strategic vision, global ambitions and political and social ethos...
Obama's Visit : Focus on Pakistan
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Nov , 2010
During the entire three-day visit of President Barack Obama to India from November 6 to 8, 2010, the Indian public focus remained disproportionately on what he had to say on Pakistan’s continued...
Boeing Receives Small Diameter Bomb Contract Extension from US Air Force
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Nov , 2010
Boeing has received a $106 million contract extension from the U.S. Air Force for nearly 2,700 Small Diameter Bomb Increment I (SDB I) munitions and approximately 380 BRU-61 carriages. Boeing...
Lockheed Martin's First F-35C carrier variant arrives at US Naval Air Station
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Nov , 2010
The first F-35C Lightning II carrier variant, the U.S. Navy’s first stealth fighter, arrived at Naval Air Station (NAS) Patuxent River, Md. on Saturday, Nov. 6 at 2:37 p.m. The aircraft,...
Intelligence: Need for Enhanced Focus on China
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Nov , 2010
Since 1947, India has had four reviews of its intelligence capabilities. The first was after the Sino-Indian military conflict of 1962 in which the Indian Army did badly. The review led to two...
Policy changes for Defence Industry of India
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Nov , 2010
Indian Defence Industry is poised to witness major policy changes. Disclosing this at a function after presenting the Raksha Mantri’s Awards for Excellence for the Year 2008-09 to Ordinance...
A400M : The perfect paratrooper and aerial deliverer
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Nov , 2010
The Airbus Military A400M military airlifter has dropped paratroopers for the first time in a successful demonstration of one of its key roles. Six freefall paratroopers made jumps from aircraft...
Obama's visit: India-US Roadmap for Strategic Partnership
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Nov , 2010
A comprehensive roadmap for giving shape to the Indo-US strategic partnership has been the most important outcome of the very successful visit of President Barack Obama to India from November 6...
India's soft response to Chinese assertiveness
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Nov , 2010
The Government of India has sought to play down the worrisome implications of China’s new policy on Kashmir favouring Pakistan, its growing strategic presence in the Gilgit-Baltistan area of...
The return of the US to Asia : Core Interests vs Mutual Interests
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Nov , 2010
The visit of President Barack Obama to India, Indonesia, Japan and South Korea will be as important as his earlier swing through the Asia-Pacific region after assuming office in January 2009....