Defence Industry
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...
Lockheed Martin delivered upgraded P-3 Orion to US Customs and Border...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
Mercedes-Benz 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Agni-V: India’s New Deterrent against China
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 May , 2012
The nation awaits with bated breath the launch of India's Agni-V missile that would understandably cause concern in some parts of the world more specifically in the neighbourhood. The Agni-V is a...
Boeing Delivers 1st EA-18G Growler Featuring Bharat Electronics Limited...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 May , 2012
BEL also produces cockpit subassemblies for F/A-18E/F Super Hornets Follow-on order further expands Boeing’s relationship with Indian industry Boeing on May 3 delivered to the U.S. Navy the...
Rheinmetall: Modern systems for modern armed forces
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 May , 2012
Tracked and wheeled fighting vehicles Main battle tanks and infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs) as well as wheeled armoured combat vehicles continue to form the backbone of modern mechanized armed...
How Bharat Electronics Dodges the Issues!
By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 May , 2012
During the presentation made to the Feasibility Study Committee on 11 Feb 2009, a Defence Public Sector Undertaking (DPSU) announced that it had executed orders worth 4,100 crore rupees during the...
Boeing to Modernize Flight Deck and Avionics for US and NATO AWACS Fleets
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 May , 2012
$368M contract is 2nd phase of US Air Force and NATO program The Boeing Company has received a $368 million Engineering, Manufacturing and Development (EMD) contract to develop a design that...
KMW buys UK bridge-making company
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 May , 2012
Krauss-Maffei Wegmann GmbH & Co. KG has taken over the UK company WFEL Ltd. based in Stockport, Cheshire. WFEL is regarded as the world-market leader for mobile bridging systems in both military...