IDR Updates
C-17 Sustainment Team Wins Top Award for Government-Industry Partnership
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Nov , 2012
The C-17 Globemaster III Integrated Sustainment Program (GISP) was recently awarded the 2012 Secretary of Defense "Gerald R. Beck" Performance Based Logistics (PBL) system-level Award by the...
India in Asian Geopolitics
By: Ashley J Tellis | Issue: Vol 22.3 Jul-Sep 2007 | Date: 04 Nov , 2012
I am going to (deal with) the subject of “India in Asian Geopolitics” because I want to spend some time focussing on some structural features of the security environment that faces India...
Lockheed Martin C-130J Super Hercules Variants declared ‘Mission...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Nov , 2012
The Lockheed Martin HC-130J Combat King II and the MC-130J Commando II aircraft have been certified as “Effective, Suitable and Mission Capable” by the Air Force Operational Test and...
Saab signs investment deal with Pipavav
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Nov , 2012
Defence and security company Saab has today signed a deal with Pipavav Offshore and Defence Engineering Ltd (Pipavav), India, about an investment in the company of MSEK 250. The investment is made...
Boeing Delivers Royal Australian Air Force’s 6th C-17
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Nov , 2012
Boeing delivered the sixth Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) C-17 Globemaster III today at the company's final assembly facility in Long Beach. The airlifter will be assigned to No. 36 Squadron at...
Afghanistan: Analysis of the Doubtless Withdrawal Symptoms
By: Dr Amarjit Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Nov , 2012
No matter who wins the US Presidential elections, both candidates have affirmed their intention to withdraw from Afghanistan in 2014, unless, of course, a major escalation takes place or the...
Boeing Delivers Final Peace Eye AEW&C Aircraft to Republic of Korea Air...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 31 Oct , 2012
Airborne surveillance and battle management capability delivered 5 weeks ahead of schedule in partnership with local industry Boeing on Oct. 24 delivered the fourth and final 737 Airborne Early...
New TOW missile achieves 100th direct hit in latest testing Raytheon proves...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 31 Oct , 2012
Raytheon Company and the U.S. Army achieved excellence in recent flight tests of the tube-launched, optically-tracked, wireless (TOW) missile. In September, the team scored its 100th TOW hit,...
Helicopter Operations in Sri Lanka
By: Air Vice Marshal AK Tiwary | Issue: Vol 27.3 Jul-Sep 2012 | Date: 31 Oct , 2012
The Mi-8 and the AN-32 were the main ‘workhorses’ in Operation Pawan in Sri Lanka. The Mi-8 fleet flew well over 35,000 sorties lifting over 100,000 troops and 5,700 tonnes of load....
SOFT POWER counts for very little!
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Oct , 2012
If the US lacked the overwhelming “hard power” it has, if global institutions were not dominated by it, if it did not actively propagate its political,economic and societal values world-wide,...
Boeing on Schedule to Deliver Next-Gen Tracking and Data Relay Satellite
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Oct , 2012
Satellites extend NASA's ability to transmit information among spacecraft and ground terminals Key performance tests and work with General Dynamics on ground segment complete Boeing is on...
Le Vigilant SSBN under major routine maintenance and adaptation of new...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Oct , 2012
The nuclear submarine ballistic missile (SSBN) Le Vigilant left last week Brest naval base -Brittany, France - where she underwent first part of major maintenance and adaptation works to the new...
Pratt & Whitney Completes First PurePower PW1100G-JM Engine for Airbus...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Oct , 2012
Pratt & Whitney has completed assembly of its first engine to test (FETT) for its PurePower PW1100G-JM engine – the first engine to power the Airbus A320neo aircraft. Company leadership,...
Bell Boeing Receives US Marine Corps Contract for V-22 Training Devices
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Oct , 2012
Trainers will support presidential transport and Osprey aircrews The U.S. Marine Corps has awarded a $74 million contract to the Bell Boeing V-22 Program, a strategic alliance between Boeing and...
UAVs gaining currency with Indian Armed Forces
By: Guilem Monsonis | Issue: EDR Vol. March/April 2012 | Date: 30 Oct , 2012
Drones are on the rise in the Indian armed forces. Identified as an essential tool for modernization, in recent years UAVs have become a staple of Indian border surveillance. Constrained for a...
Successful first end to end firing of MBDA naval cruise missile (MdCN) in...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Oct , 2012
The French DGA (Direction Générale de l’Armement) has successfully carried out the first end to end firing of the MdCN (Missile de Croisière Naval or naval cruise missile) in its submarine...
EC120 Colibri aircraft exceeds 40,000 flight hours
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Oct , 2012
Helidax, a subsidiary of DCI and INAER, announces that it has exceeded 40,000 flight hours on EC120 Colibri aircraft, in their Calliope configuration, after 2 years of operation. Helidax is the...
Boeing Receives $2 Billion C-17 Aircraft Sustainment Contract
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Oct , 2012
Boeing will continue assuring the worldwide availability of C-17 aircraft, which provide vital military and humanitarian airlift capability, through a $2 billion follow-on contract it recently...
South Korea orders its 100th Sigma 40 navigation system from Sagem
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Oct , 2012
South Korea has ordered its 100th shipborne Sigma 40 inertial navigation system from Sagem (Safran group), confirming its confidence in the system's laser gyro technology. The Sigma 40 is a...
Boeing-COMAC Technology Center Announces First Biofuel Research Project
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Oct , 2012
Hangzhou Energy Engineering & Technology will find ways to convert waste cooking oil for use as jet fuel A newly formed technology center created by Boeing and Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China...