Articles in Defence Industry
AgustaWestland Holds the First AW109 LUH/LOH Operators Conference
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Dec , 2010
AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica company, is pleased to announce that over 40 delegates attended the first AgustaWestland AW109 LUH/LOH Operators Conference recently held at AgustaWestland’s...
MBDA delivers 600th Taurus KEPD 350 to German Luftwaffe
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Dec , 2010
TAURUS System GmbH (TSG), a subsidiary of LFK-Lenkflugkörpersysteme GmbH (MBDA Deutschland) and Saab Dynamics, has delivered the 600th missile to the German Federal Office of Defence Technology...
Boeing Receives US Army Contract for Tactical Intelligence Aircraft
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Dec , 2010
Boeing announced that it has received a two-year engineering and manufacturing development contract for the Enhanced Medium Altitude Reconnaissance and Surveillance System (EMARSS) from the U.S....
PUMA-infantry fighting vehicle: sets the new standard
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Dec , 2010
Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) and Rheinmetall handed over on December 6th in time the first two PUMA infantry fighting vehicles to the Federal Office of Defense Technology and Procurement (BWB) in...
South Korea selects Lockheed Martin
By: IDR News Network | Date: 03 Dec , 2010
Lockheed Martin has signed a contract with the Republic of Korea to provide the nation four C-130J Super Hercules aircraft. Korea’s new Super Hercules will be the longer fuselage or “stretched”...
Ordeals of Decision-Making
By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman | Issue: Vol 22.1 Jan - Mar 2007 | Date: 03 Dec , 2010
During the Kargil conflict, stocks of a particular type of vital ammunition were running frightfully low. A delegation was rushed to the supplier nation to obtain additional supplies urgently....
Play Safe Syndrome Rules Defence Procurements
By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman | Issue: Vol 22.1 Jan - Mar 2007 | Date: 03 Dec , 2010
It is a well accepted dictum in the corridors of MoD that not taking a decision is far less risky than taking one. Therefore, it is considered judicious to defer decision-making. Additionally,...
Impediments to the Modernisation of the Indian Defence Forces
By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman | Issue: Vol 22.1 Jan - Mar 2007 | Date: 03 Dec , 2010
As an emerging economic and military power, India must possess armed forces that can guarantee security of its interests in a dynamic international geo-political environment. However, slow and...
Private Industry to Have its Share in Tactical Communication System: Raksha...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Dec , 2010
“One of the most prestigious communications project conceived by the Corps (of Signals), the Tactical Communication System (TCS) is well on the way,” said Raksha Rajya Mantri, Shri MM Pallam...
Navy to build blue-water capability with a balanced force structure, says...
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol 25.1 Jan-Mar 2010 | Date: 01 Dec , 2010
Admiral Nirmal Verma interviewed by IDR One of the most significant events in the recent times has been the commissioning of India’s nuclear submarine in July this year, even if she has a way...
Defence Technologies Key to India's Security
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol. 26.3 July - Sept 2011 | Date: 01 Dec , 2010
Primary key to India’s emergence as a successful global power lies on the ability to acquire and imbibe superior defence technologies in the knowledge-based society of the 21st century. The...
Hovercraft for Indian Coast Guard
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Nov , 2010
With 12 more hovercraft likely to be inducted in the Coast Guard in the next three years, the agency’s eastern region is likely to purchase two such craft at a cost of Rs 8 crore each and base...
Advanced Air Defence Missile Test-fired
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Nov , 2010
India has successfully test-fired the indigenously developed single-stage, interceptor Advanced Air Defence (AAD) missile, destroying a ‘hostile’ ballistic missile fired from the Integrated Test...
Boeing in USAF Tanker Deal
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Nov , 2010
Boeing claims that its offer for the USAF tanker program, based on its 767, would satisfy all 372 mandatory USAF requirements. The Company said its offering would be more cost-effective to own...
Super Hornets for Royal Australian Air Force
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Nov , 2010
Six new Boeing F/A-18F Super Hornets arrived at Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Base Amberley on July 06, expanding the RAAF’s fleet of Super Hornets to 11. The first five had arrived in March...
India test fires nuclear capable strategic ballistic missile Agni-I
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Nov , 2010
India test-fired its nuclear-capable Agni-I strategic ballistic missile on 25-Nov, with a range of 700 kilometers off the Orissa coast. The missile was launched as part of the Army’s user trial...
Eurosam achieves Europe's first ever intercept of a tactical ballistic missile
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Nov , 2010
Within the framework of the FSAF development programme whose goal is to provide the SAMP/T system with an anti-tactical ballistic missile defence capability, EUROSAM carried out a system firing...
Saab receives FMV Gripen order for Thailand
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Nov , 2010
Defence and security company Saab has received an order from FMV (Swedish Defence Material Administration) for six Gripen aircraft intended for the Royal Thai Air Force. The order is worth...
Private sector's involvement must to promote indigenisation
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Nov , 2010
Admiral Nirmal Verma, Chief of the Naval Staff, Integrated HQ of MoD (Navy), while delivering the inaugural address during the NAVARMS 2010: Emerging Trends & Opportunities in Naval Armaments,...
1st National Electronic Warfare workshop in Bangalore
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Nov , 2010
Modern day war cannot be won without Electronic warfare system and hence India is developing its own state of the art Electronic warfare system by 2013. Dr.Prahlada, Chief Controller, R and D of...