Articles in Defence Industry
Boeing expanding Pilot Training Program in Africa
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Dec , 2011
Boeing is expanding its partnerships in Africa, announcing an agreement to jointly offer a comprehensive pilot training program with 43 Air School (Pty) Ltd., Africa’s largest flight training...
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...
Boeing upgrade the visual systems in the F-15C
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Nov , 2011
The Boeing Company received a $20 million contract in September from the U.S. Air Force to upgrade the visual systems in the F-15C Mission Training Centers. Twelve MTCs, located at Langley Air...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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 &...
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...
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...
Mexico takes delivery of its first Airbus Military
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Nov , 2011
The Mexican Navy has taken delivery of the first of four CN235 Maritime Patrol Aircraft (MPA) ordered from Airbus Military through a contract with EADS North America under the Mérida Initiative,...
Boeing becomes full member of Danish Advanced Manufacturing & Research Centre
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Nov , 2011
The Boeing Company has expanded its partnership with the Danish Advanced Manufacturing and Research Centre (DAMRC), becoming a full participating member. Boeing’s membership offers the DAMRC...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
Helicopter Acquisition by the IAF
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Nov , 2011
The Indian Ministry of Defence is currently in the process of finalising helicopter gunships for the IAF in a deal worth $550 million. Its acquisition were earlier dogged by controversy. The IAF...
India plans to develop solar-powered UAVs
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Nov , 2011
The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has revealed that India plans to develop solar-powered unmanned flying machines with the capability of remaining airborne for at least a...
Rheinmetall transfers first Kodiak armoured engineering vehicle to Sweden
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Nov , 2011
Rheinmetall Defence has handed over the first “Kodiak” AEV 3 S armoured engineering vehicle to the Swedish armed forces procurement agency (FMV, Försvarets Materiel Verk). At an official...