Articles in Defence Industry
Radio Telescope Opens Eye on Universe
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol 27.3 Jul-Sep 2012 | Date: 14 Sep , 2012
One of the world’s largest ground-based astronomical projects is being installed 16,597 feet above sea level in Chile’s Atacama Desert, which will help scientists to study the origins of the...
US Air Force against China, North Korea
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol 27.3 Jul-Sep 2012 | Date: 14 Sep , 2012
According to a study by the Washington-based think-tank American Enterprise Institute, the US Air Force (USAF) does not have enough stealth aircraft to launch a powerful first wave strike and wage...
Virus Prone Communication Software
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol 27.3 Jul-Sep 2012 | Date: 14 Sep , 2012
The Army’s sensitive Command and Information Decision Support System (CIDSS), which is employed during war-time operations, has been found to be vulnerable to virus attack and potential hackers....
UAVs in the Chinese Navy
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol 27.3 Jul-Sep 2012 | Date: 14 Sep , 2012
The People’s Liberation Army Navy of China has begun deploying Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) aboard its ships. China has been interested in developing UAVs since the 1960s when it shot down a...
MBDA successfully tests 40 KW high-energy laser demonstrator
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Sep , 2012
MBDA Germany has achieved a power of 40 kW using its high-energy laser demonstrator during a laser firing campaign. The laser power generated by patented beam coupling of fibre lasers was...
Defexpo 2012: India on a Growth Trajectory in Defence Industry
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol 27.3 Jul-Sep 2012 | Date: 12 Sep , 2012
Estimates are that India will continue to be a huge arms market and over the next decade, the government is likely to spend $250 billion to procure weapons and systems. Of the total estimate, $20...
New Markets for the C-17
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol 27.3 Jul-Sep 2012 | Date: 12 Sep , 2012
The demand for military cargo aircraft in the US is on the decline threatening closure of production lines if no new orders are received. The US aerospace major Boeing Company is in search of new...
F-35 Bombing Tests
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol 27.3 Jul-Sep 2012 | Date: 12 Sep , 2012
The Marine F-35B variant of the Joint Strike Fighter is inching closer to in-flight releases of weapons following a recent run of tests that involved dropping inert munitions into a pit. The F-35...
New Weapon Testing Facilities
By: Harish Kapur | Issue: Vol 27.3 Jul-Sep 2012 | Date: 12 Sep , 2012
Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), the country’s premier research organisation for the defence services, will invest around Rs1,000 crore to create new testing and validation...
North Korean Rocket Fails
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol 27.3 Jul-Sep 2012 | Date: 12 Sep , 2012
North Korea’s much hyped long-range rocket apparently crashed into the sea a few minutes after launch in the second week of April 2012. Pyongyang had defied international pressure from the...
Lifetime Cost of F-35 Fighter
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol 27.3 Jul-Sep 2012 | Date: 11 Sep , 2012
According to the Pentagon, the total cost to develop, procure and operate the Lockheed Martin Corporation F-35 Joint Strike Fighter has been estimated to be $1.51 trillion over the next 50 years....
Dilemma of Rise in Populations of Drones
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol 27.3 Jul-Sep 2012 | Date: 11 Sep , 2012
Drones armed with cameras and increasingly, with bombs and missiles are fast becoming a key weapon of modern warfare. The US regards the pilotless aircraft as vital in operations in Afghanistan,...
Navy Grounds Fire Scout Drone Copters
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol 27.3 Jul-Sep 2012 | Date: 11 Sep , 2012
Just weeks after the Navy grounded its fleet of MQ-8B Fire Scout unmanned spy copters as a precautionary step, it announced proposed expenditure of $250 million to purchase even more drone...
Improved Brahmos Missile Tested
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol 27.3 Jul-Sep 2012 | Date: 11 Sep , 2012
End March 2012, the Defence Research and Development Organisation test-fired an improved version of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur, off...
NASA & ATK Complete First Test for SLS Booster
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol 27.3 Jul-Sep 2012 | Date: 11 Sep , 2012
According to company program managers, NASA and ATK successfully completed the first test for the space agency’s Space Launch System (SLS) booster program. The demonstration held on March 28 at...
Drones in Pentagon’s 30-Year Plan
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol 27.3 Jul-Sep 2012 | Date: 10 Sep , 2012
The Pentagon plans to increase its fleet of armed and long endurance surveillance drones by 45 per cent over the next decade. As per the Department of Defense, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in the US...
General Dynamics Awarded ATC Radar Contract
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol 27.3 Jul-Sep 2012 | Date: 10 Sep , 2012
General Dynamics C4 Systems bagged a ten-year $363 million contract from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for radios that allow air traffic control personnel to communicate with...
Maiden Flight by Carrier Version of LCA, Tejas
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol 27.3 Jul-Sep 2012 | Date: 10 Sep , 2012
Nearly two years since its roll out during which there were a number of postponements, on April 27, 2012, India’s Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Naval Prototype 1 finally took off from the airport...
Second BrahMos Regiment Operational
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol 27.3 Jul-Sep 2012 | Date: 10 Sep , 2012
Early March 2012, the Indian Army successfully test-fired the BrahMos stealth supersonic cruise missile at Pokhran in the Western sector, providing itself with much-needed swift strike capability...
End of Space Shuttle Era
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol 27.3 Jul-Sep 2012 | Date: 10 Sep , 2012
Riding on the back of a modified 747, Discovery NASA’s veteran space shuttle Discovery did a final lap of honour before becoming a museum piece. It flew low over the monuments of the nation’s...