IDR Updates
Elbit Systems’s Mission Training Center goes operational
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Nov , 2013
The center incorporates a "Mission Training" system that allows fighter pilots to fly operational and tactical missions Elbit Systems announced that the Mission Training Center (MTC) for the...
Peruvian Ministry of Defense selects the Alenia Aermacchi C-27J Spartan
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Nov , 2013
Alenia Aermacchi, a Finmeccanica Company, has been selected to supply the Peruvian Ministry of Defense with 2 C-27J Spartan tactical airlifters. The contract, to be signed as soon as the...
Boeing Delivers 3rd P-8I to India
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Nov , 2013
The third Boeing P-8I long-range maritime reconnaissance and anti-submarine warfare aircraft for the Indian Navy arrived today in India, on schedule. The aircraft departed Boeing Field in Seattle...
Selex launched Expendable Active Decoy ‘BriteCloud’
By: David Oliver | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Nov , 2013
Selex ES, has launched a new Expendable Active Decoy (EAD) called BriteCloud. The same size and shape as a flare, dispensed from a standard 55mm flare cartridge, BriteCloud draws threats away...
The UK Rotary-Wing Unmanned Air System Takes-Off
By: David Oliver | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Nov , 2013
The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) launched its projected Tactical Maritime Unmanned Air System (TMUAS) in August by awarding AgustaWestland a £2.3 million contract for a Rotary-Wing Unmanned Air...
Military: PM’s Sterile Monologues,Wasted Task Forces
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Nov , 2013
At the recent Combined Commanders Conference, the Prime Minister asked for urgent review of Task Force Reports for indigenous production – another monologue statement egged on perhaps because...
Selex ES and BAE Systems sign teaming agreement for Eurofighter Typhoon
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Nov , 2013
Selex ES, a Finmeccanica company, and BAE Systems have signed a teaming agreement that will see the two companies working together to provide Electronic Warfare Operational Support (EWOS) for...
Six Additional C-130J Super Hercules for the Indian Air Force
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Nov , 2013
The Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) of the Indian Ministry of Defence cleared the purchase of six more Lockheed-Martin C-130J Super Hercules transport aircraft from the US under its Foreign...
Long-Range UAVs for Launch from Small Ships
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Nov , 2013
US-based Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has launched a program to develop a Medium Altitude Long Endurance (MALE) Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) for extended maritime...
Empty F-16 Jet Tested by Boeing & USAF
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Nov , 2013
Boeing has retrofitted retired Lockheed Martin F-16 Fighting Falcons to turn them into Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. The first such machine that had been mothballed for 15 years, was successfully...
Alenia Aermacchi completes final assembly of C-27J Spartan
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Nov , 2013
Alenia Aermacchi has completed the assembly of the first C-27J battlefield airlifter for the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). At the company’s Turin plant, the aircraft’s wing was mated...
Refusing to learn from Mumbai attacks
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Nov , 2013
It is five years since that dreadful night of November 26, 2008, which saw 10 terrorists making an amphibious landing onto the jetties of Mumbai, and proceeding to carry out sophisticated and...
Organisational and Structural Evolution – Lessons from Al-Qaeda
By: Dr. S. V. Raghavan & Dr. V. Balasubramaniyan | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 21 Nov , 2013
The global community has witnessed transformations in terror groups across the spectrum. These transformations can be attributed to various external changes that force the terror groups to change...
FAS signs orders for two AW169 Helicopters
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Nov , 2013
AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica company, is pleased to announce that FAS (Falcon Aviation Services) of Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates) has signed firm orders for two AW169 light intermediate...
President’s Standards awarded to IAF’s 220 SQN and 32 SQN at Halwara
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Nov , 2013
The President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee in an impressive Ceremonial Parade at Air Force Station Halwara presented Standards to two of the IAF’s Frontline Fighter Squadrons - 220...
Nuclear perfidy
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Nov , 2013
Big powers purported nuclear blindness is on the rise. Not that the malady is new – squints, Nelson’s Eye, blisters in the eyes, all compounded. The whole game is to permit selective...
No Human Occupant: The Growing Challenges of UAS Pilot Training
By: David Oliver | Issue: Vol. 28.4 Oct-Dec 2013 | Date: 19 Nov , 2013
As UAS technology matures and prices start to drop with from Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) components, more agencies are becoming interested in adopting UAS platforms and the market is on the...
First TU-142M LRMRASW squadron of Indian navy celebrates its silver jubilee
By: IDR News Network | Date: 19 Nov , 2013
INAS 312 Maritime Reconnaissance Squadron of the Eastern Naval Command, based at Arakkonam in Tamil Nadu, celebrated its Silver Jubilee Anniversary on today, 18 Nov. The Silver Jubilee...
Cassidian’s new SPEXER-500 Security Radar
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Nov , 2013
Cassidian, the defence division of EADS, introduces a new electronically scanning radar which opens up new opportunities for the surveillance and protection of sensitive industrial or military...
Sukhoi Civil Aircraft, Sberbank and Invest AD Signed a Tri-lateral Letter of...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Nov , 2013
On the ground of Dubai Airshow 2013 Sberbank, Sukhoi Civil Aircraft (SCAC) and Abu Dhabi Investment Company “Invest AD” signed a tri-lateral Letter of Intent to launch their cooperation in the...