Articles in Defence Industry

Boeing receives its 1st International Cybersecurity contract

Boeing receives its 1st International Cybersecurity contract

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Jun , 2012

Sojitz Corporation places order for advanced network assessment The Boeing Company announced today (11June 2012) that Sojitz Corporation, a global trading company headquartered in Tokyo, has...

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JIMEX 12: First exercise between India and Japan

JIMEX 12: First exercise between India and Japan

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Jun , 2012

The first Bi-lateral maritime exercise between India and Japan ‘JIMEX 12’ (Japan India Maritime Exercise) will commence tomorrow, 09 June, off Tokyo. Units of the Japanese Maritime Self Defence...

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TAPI Pipeline: Moving away from Iran

TAPI Pipeline: Moving away from Iran

By: Vikram Sood | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Jun , 2012

The Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) pipeline agreement signed on May 23 is a follow-up to the December 2010 agreement but essentially a rerun of the aborted 1990s game with a few...

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Lockheed Martin delivered upgraded P-3 Orion to US Customs and Border Protection

Lockheed Martin delivered upgraded P-3 Orion to US Customs and Border Protection

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Jun , 2012

Lockheed Martin delivered the fifth P-3 Orion with new Mid-Life Upgrade (MLU) modifications to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) more than 50 days ahead of schedule. “Our Greenville team...

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French RAID Team Reveals Robot’s Role in Toulouse Counterterrorism Operation

French RAID Team Reveals Robot’s Role in Toulouse Counterterrorism Operation

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Jun , 2012

Commandos from the elite French counterterrorism team R.A.I.D. (Recherché Assistance Intervention Dissuasion) killed Mohamed Merah, an Islamic extremist who had shot three French soldiers in...

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Saint-Gobain Announces Upcoming EN Certification for Hazmat Apparel

Saint-Gobain Announces Upcoming EN Certification for Hazmat Apparel

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Jun , 2012

Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics announced today that the ONEGlove® protective glove will soon be certified to EN standards for use with Hazmat and CBRN protective ensembles. Under the...

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Elbit Systems Presents: New Cyber Simulator

Elbit Systems Presents: New Cyber Simulator

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Jun , 2012

Elbit Systems announced that it has completed the development of a new cyber security simulator. Elbit Systems’ cyber simulator was developed specifically for the training of government,...

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Boeing, Raytheon and Harris to Pursue GPS Control Segment Sustainment Contract

Boeing, Raytheon and Harris to Pursue GPS Control Segment Sustainment Contract

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Jun , 2012

Teaming arrangement reflects best of GPS sustainment experience The Boeing Company is leading a U.S. industry team that includes Raytheon and Harris Corporation to pursue future development and...

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France orders naval ammunition from Diehl

France orders naval ammunition from Diehl

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Jun , 2012

Diehl Defence has received an order fromFranceto develop and qualify modern naval ammunition. It constitutes a refinement of the 76 mm naval ammunition employed worldwide. The new ammunition is...

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Boeing Delivers Final Wedgetail AEW&C Aircraft to Australia

Boeing Delivers Final Wedgetail AEW&C Aircraft to Australia

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Jun , 2012

The Boeing Company delivered the sixth and final Wedgetail Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEW&C) aircraft to the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF).”I would like to congratulate Boeing in...

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Mercedes-B​enz to supply the German Armed Forces with 110 Zetros GTF...

Mercedes-B​enz to supply the German Armed Forces with 110 Zetros GTF...

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Jun , 2012

Mobility and protection from the series-production programme Convincing cab-behind-engine design Powerful drive and uninterrupted tractive power First vehicles to be delivered within six months...

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Indigenously designed Surface-to-Air Akash Missile inducted into the IAF

Indigenously designed Surface-to-Air Akash Missile inducted into the IAF

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol. 27.2 Apr-Jun 2012 | Date: 01 Jun , 2012

India has inducted the first batch of the indigenously designed and developed Surface-to-Air Missile (SAM), Akash into the Indian Air Force marking a major milestone in the development of...

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Long Range Drone for US Navy

Long Range Drone for US Navy

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol. 27.2 Apr-Jun 2012 | Date: 01 Jun , 2012

The US Navy is testing a long-range drone that flies at 70,000 feet above aircraft carriers and allows fleet commanders to track suspicious vessels across vast expanses of the sea. A prototype of...

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Jet-powered unmanned Predator C Avenger successfully flown

Jet-powered unmanned Predator C Avenger successfully flown

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol. 27.2 Apr-Jun 2012 | Date: 01 Jun , 2012

The second prototype of the Predator C Avenger a jet-powered unmanned aircraft system from General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc (GAASI) was successfully flown in California in February this...

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Dassault Aviation Partners with Reliance Industries

Dassault Aviation Partners with Reliance Industries

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol. 27.2 Apr-Jun 2012 | Date: 01 Jun , 2012

With an already diversified business portfolio, Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL), India, has now entered into an agreement with Dassault Aviation of France for joint ventures in the regime of defence...

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The Global Aircraft Carrier Perspective

The Global Aircraft Carrier Perspective

By: Vice Adm (Retd) GM Hiranandani | Issue: Vol 21.4 Oct-Dec 2006 | Date: 30 May , 2012

Navies have Aircraft Carriers to provide instantly available air power to fleets at sea.  The number of aircraft carriers that a Navy requires derives from how many are needed during war to...

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