IDR Updates
Boeing P-8I and C-17 on track for 2013 delivery
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol. 28.1 Jan-Mar 2013 | Date: 08 Feb , 2013
The opening up of India’s defence and security market has created an opportunity for a strengthening partnership between Boeing and India. The Indian Navy selected the P-8I in January 2009 to...
MBDA: Mastering Multi-Role Air Combat Capability
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol. 28.1 Jan-Mar 2013 | Date: 08 Feb , 2013
Recent combat operations in Afghanistan and Libya have revealed a shift in the modern air force’s role. It has become clear that today’s need is for a multi-role capability. The ability to...
‘Optimal employment of sophisticated equipment needs high quality...
By: Ramananda Sengupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Feb , 2013
Group Captain Balakrishna Menon, VM, was commissioned in the old General Duties branch of the Indian Air Force (now known as the Flying Branch) in 1967 as a fighter pilot. He flew Hunters and...
‘Ability to provide an effective and credible deterrence capability...
By: Gp Capt B Menon | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Feb , 2013
Interview with Major General Ilan Biran, Chairman of the Board, Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. on 07 February 2013 Highlights from the interview & technical summaries provided are given...
Eurocopter books new EC135 helicopter order in India
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Feb , 2013
A record nine units of Eurocopter’s EC135 was sold in 2012, making it the most sought-after light twin-engine helicopter in India. The growing popularity of the EC135 in India was further...
Maini signs MoU with Assystem at Aero India 2013
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Feb , 2013
Assystem and MPP (Maini Precision Products PVT) announced the signature of a Memorandum of Understanding at Aero India 2013 – Asia’s Premier Aerospace exhibition scheduled from February 6th...
Making Offsets Work for India
By: Robert S Metzger | Issue: Vol. 28.1 Jan-Mar 2013 | Date: 07 Feb , 2013
Foreign companies invest a great deal in capital and management attention to form Joint Ventures and other business relationships with India partners so that they can be part of the aerospace...
‘Lockheed Martin is committed to a long-term partnership with India’
By: Ramananda Sengupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Feb , 2013
James R Gribbon, Lockheed Martin’s Regional President for South Asia, is responsible for the corporation’s international business development in all five business areas: Aeronautics,...
Rolls-Royce and India: Partners in progress
By: John Gay | Issue: Vol. 28.1 Jan-Mar 2013 | Date: 07 Feb , 2013
Technology is driving the way we work, think and live today. Its development has had a profound influence on the defence sector where we are already working on the next generation of aircraft...
Rafael: Multi-layered Air and Missile Defence
By: Yedidia Yaari | Issue: Vol. 28.1 Jan-Mar 2013 | Date: 07 Feb , 2013
Rafael’s vision combines between the company’s historical roots and present activities as Israel’s national laboratory, making significant investment in R&D, while continuing to grow...
Boeing C-17 adds Strategic Airlift Capability
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol. 28.1 Jan-Mar 2013 | Date: 07 Feb , 2013
On a clear, cold day in June 2010, a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III flew over the mighty Himalayas and touched down at an airfield in Leh, at an elevation of 11,562 ft, to take part in...
Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) vision for 2020
By: Gp Capt B Menon | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Feb , 2013
The press conference was chaired by R. K. Tyagi, Chairman-HAL with all major division heads present. The highlights from his overview are given below. Helicopters. 2 tech demonstrators, the...
Eurocopter India continued its leadership role in the Indian market
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Feb , 2013
Paced by the sales of light helicopters in 2012, Eurocopter India continued its leadership role in the Indian market last year – capturing a 70 percent share of the new civilian helicopter...
Agusta Westland selects Thales to supply FLASH Compact dipping sonars
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Feb , 2013
Agusta Westland has selected Thales as the supplier of compact dipping sonars to equip its Lynx light helicopters for export markets. The latest in Thales’s FLASH range, the FLASH Compact is...
‘The variants for Russia & India have common major systems’
By: Gp Capt B Menon | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Feb , 2013
Speech by Mikhail Pogosyan, President of United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) at Press Conference – Aero India 2013, Bangalore The President of UAC started by stating that the partnership between...
Antony Inaugurates Aero India-2013 at Bangalore
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Feb , 2013
Aero India provides enormous business opportunity not only to India but also to different regional markets of the world. Inaugurating the 9th edition of Aero India-2013, at Air Force Station,...
‘India is one of the top countries for Boeing’
By: Ramananda Sengupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Feb , 2013
Dennis D. Swanson is vice president, International Business Development for India at Boeing Defense, Space & Security. Swanson is responsible for growing and repositioning Boeing’s defense,...
‘We’ve always considered India as being very special’
By: Ramananda Sengupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Feb , 2013
MBDA, a world leader in missiles and missile systems, is the first truly integrated European defence company. With 10,000 employees spread over industrial facilities in France, the United...
Airbus Military C295 – A developing story
By: Federico Lacalle | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Feb , 2013
As the Indian Air Force turns its attention to the question of the replacement of the venerable Avro fleet, it is a good moment to review the remarkable increments in performance and technology...
Indian aeronautics sector offers interesting prospects for Finmeccanica
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Feb , 2013
Finmeccanica – through its operating companies AgustaWestland, Alenia Aermacchi, DRS Technologies and Selex ES – takes part in Aero India 2013. In the helicopter sector, AgustaWestland has...