Defence Industry
Cobham Partners with Carson Helicopter to Retrofit Sikorsky Aircraft with...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Nov , 2011
Cobham and Carson Helicopters have announced a partnership to provide an advanced suite of avionics for Sikorsky S-61, S-76, and UH-60 derivative helicopter retrofits. The Integrated Systems...
Big scope for India-Italy Defence Industry Cooperation: Pallam Raju
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Nov , 2011
The Minister of State for Defence Dr. MM Pallam Raju has said that there is tremendous potential for defence cooperation with Italy. Addressing a roundtable on ‘Indo-Italian Defence...
DCNS and Thales have overcome a new hurdle for the automatic deck-landing of...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Oct , 2011
DCNS and Thales today announced the launch of a supplementary phase for the Technology Demonstration of a system for automatic landing and deck-landing of UAVs (D2AD), which has just been...
Sagem’s Infrared version of AASM Hammer enters service with French armed...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Oct , 2011
The French Air Force and Naval aviation began operational deployment of the infrared terminal guidance version (SBU-64) of the Hammer IR AASM modular air-to- ground weapon. Developed and...
Sikorsky Chief Test Pilot Awarded SETP Honor for Achievement with X2...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Oct , 2011
Kevin Bredenbeck, the pilot who flew the revolutionary X2 Technology™ demonstrator last year to an unofficial speed record for conventional helicopters, has been recognized by the Society of...
Boeing P-8I Aircraft Completes 1st Flight for Indian Navy
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Sep , 2011
Boeing’s first P-8I aircraft for the Indian Navy completed its initial flight today, taking off from Renton Field at 12:02 p.m. Pacific time and landing two hours and 31 minutes later at Boeing...
CII and Swedish Security and Defence Industry signed MoU in Public Security...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Sep , 2011
Swedish Security and Defence Industry (SOFF) and Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to promote co-operation between India and Sweden in public...
A sharper focus: Rheinmetall Electro-Optics premieres at DSEi 2011
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Sep , 2011
Rheinmetall Defence has welded its electro-optical activities into a new division. Known as Rheinmetall Electro-Optics, the division has now made its international debut at this year’s DSEi fair...
Boeing CHAMP Missile Completes 1st Flight Test
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Sep , 2011
Boeing, Air Force Research Laboratory team on nonlethal microwave weapon The Boeing Company and the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory Counter-electronics High-powered Microwave Advanced...
Boeing, US Army Celebrate $130 Million Investment in CH-47 Chinook...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Sep , 2011
The Boeing Company and the U.S. Army celebrated the opening of the newly renovated H-47 Chinook manufacturing facility today. The event coincided with the 50th anniversary of the H-47 Chinook’s...
Sagem to modernize navigation system on South Korea’s KSS-1 submarines
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Sep , 2011
After a hard-fought international competition, Sagem (Safran group) was chosen by the South Korean Defense Ministry’s Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) to modernize the...
DCNS conducts further sea trials with BPC Dixmude
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Sep , 2011
DCNS began new sea trials on 19 September with BPC Dixmude, the French Navy’s third Mistral-class force projection and command vessel, which was ordered by the French defence procurement agency...
German Army orders KMW’s 31 MUNGO 2 Multi-purpose vehicles
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Sep , 2011
Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW), Europe´s market leader for highly protected wheeled and tracked vehicles, has received an order from the German Army for the assembly and delivery of 31 further...
F-35 Program Completes Static Structural Testing
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Sep , 2011
Lockheed Martin’s F-35 program has successfully completed static structural testing, achieving one of five milestones established by the Joint Program Office for 2011. Static structural testing...
Boeing forecasts strong need for Aviation Personnel in Asia Pacific
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Sep , 2011
Boeing forecasts the Asia Pacific region will require hundreds of thousands of new commercial airline pilots and technicians over the next 20 years to support airline fleet modernization and the...
MBDA Readies Fire Shadow on back of Programme Successes
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Sep , 2011
The Fire Shadow weapon system has successfully completed a series of demonstration trials and two more successful firings in a ground breaking rapid development programme that was launched in...
Display of latest Defence Technologies at the Paris Air Show
By: Antonis Bosnakoudis | Issue: Vol. 26.3 July - Sept 2011 | Date: 02 Sep , 2011
The 49th International Paris Air Show between 20 and 26 June 2011 in the Le Bourget area of Paris completed one century of service and in two years it will enter its second century. In the...
French Aerospace Companies to attend Indo-French Technology Meet
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Sep , 2011
On the Occasion of the Indo-French Technology Meet 2011 organized by Ubifrance and the French Trade Commission in India, the ICT-Services and Aerospace Department of Ubifrance in collaboration...
New French Base in the Gulf
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Vol 24.2 Apr-Jun 2009 | Date: 29 Aug , 2011
A small revolution is happening in the French defense establishment: Paris will soon open an inter-service base outside France, in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Though it is not...
Boeing and Delta Air Lines Announce Order for 100 Next-Generation 737-900ERs
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Aug , 2011
Boeing and Delta Air Lines announced an order for 100 Next-Generation 737-900ER (extended range) airplanes. The order, with a list–price value of more than $8.5 billion, is part of Delta’s fleet...