IDR Updates
Avoidable Unpleasantness in India-China Relations
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Nov , 2011
Avoidable unpleasantness has recently crept into India-China relations over issues which should not have been over-dramatised by China thereby injecting a certain distrust into the relations...
Network Centricity comes to fore in Exercise Sudarshan Shakti
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Nov , 2011
Exercise Sudarshan Shakti, a joint exercise of Southern Army and South Western Air Command has entered its crucial phase. The training was progressively structured to build on from the smallest...
Eurofighter flying over UAE
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Nov , 2011
Clear blue skies, an RAF Typhoon, a Spartan C-27J, the world’s most famous aviation photographer and a team of enthusiastic pilots and crew – independently, they are all incredible assets at an...
New Country Director of Thales India
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Nov , 2011
Mr. Eric LENSEIGNE has taken over as the Country Director & Managing Director of Thales India Pvt. Ltd. He will be based in New Delhi. Eric holds Master’s Degrees in Electronic & Signal...
Lockheed Martin completes assembly of the first international F-35 for the...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Nov , 2011
The United Kingdom Ministry of Defence will use the short takeoff/vertical landing (STOVL) jet, known as BK-1, for training and operational tests. BK-1 will undergo functional fuel system...
Boeing and Northrop Grumman on Final Proposal Submission of Competitive...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Nov , 2011
The Boeing Company and Northrop Grumman Corporation today submitted their final proposal for future work on the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) element of the United States’ ballistic...
Gowind offshore patrol vessel L’Adroit leaves Lorient for Toulon
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Nov , 2011
Eighteen months after construction began, the Gowind offshore patrol vessel L’Adroit, an innovative maritime safety and security platform, has left DCNS’s Lorient shipyard, where it was built,...
Pratt & Whitney’s PurePower PW1000G engine as one of the 50 Best Inventions...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Nov , 2011
TIME Magazine has named Pratt & Whitney’s PurePower PW1000G engine as one of “The 50 Best Inventions of 2011,” describing it as “the most important development in aviation in 2011.” Pratt &...
IAF’s inaugural flight of AN-32 lands at Vijayanagar
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Nov , 2011
Hon’ble Governor of Arunachal Pradesh, General (Retd) JJ Singh accompanied by Air Marshal S Varthaman, Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Eastern Air Command inaugurated the Advance Landing Ground...
Boeing, Lion Air Announce Historic Commitment for up to 380 737s
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Nov , 2011
Airline to order 201 737 MAXs and 29 Next-Generation 737-900ERs worth $21.7 billion When finalized, order will be the largest ever for Boeing Deal to include purchase rights for an additional...
Pakistan’s Emergence as the Epicentre of Terrorism
By: Anand K Verma | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Nov , 2011
The idea of Pakistan survives on the premise of enmity towards India. This premise came into existence well before Pakistan became a reality. Some in Pakistan believe that the country started...
India and the Afghan Imbroglio
By: Air Marshal BK Pandey | Issue: Vol. 26.4 Oct-Dec 2011 | Date: 23 Nov , 2011
In all likelihood, in collusion with Pakistan, China is all set to arrive in Afghanistan in a big way drawn essentially by the huge mineral resources there that remain unexploited and access to...
Police killed Ishrat Jahan in Cold Blood
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Nov , 2011
A three-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) headed by Rajiv Ranjan Verma, a senior officer of the Bihar IPS cadre, has concluded that Ishrat Jahan, a 19-year-old girl from Maharashtra, and...
A Future View of Terrorism
By: S. Sanyal | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 21 Nov , 2011
We can no longer overlook the fact that terrorism has come to stay in our midst and that the actors of terrorism are none other than some of us who suddenly decide to step out and move away from...
India’s New Found Confidence
By: Air Marshal RS Bedi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Nov , 2011
A couple of land mark events have taken place during the last few months; India asserting its rights to explore oil in South China Sea by entering into a contract with the Vietnamese government...
Three Years After 26/11 New Delhi unable to control terror
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Nov , 2011
The 26/11 terrorist strikes led to five important decisions by the Government of India— to decentralise the deployment of the National Security Guards (NSG) by setting up regional...
Mexico takes delivery of its first Airbus Military
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Nov , 2011
The Mexican Navy has taken delivery of the first of four CN235 Maritime Patrol Aircraft (MPA) ordered from Airbus Military through a contract with EADS North America under the Mérida Initiative,...
Boeing becomes full member of Danish Advanced Manufacturing & Research...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Nov , 2011
The Boeing Company has expanded its partnership with the Danish Advanced Manufacturing and Research Centre (DAMRC), becoming a full participating member. Boeing’s membership offers the DAMRC...
Tawazun Precision Industries prepares to enter the MBDA Global Supply Chain
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Nov , 2011
Tawazun Precision Industries (TPI), a Tawazun Holding subsidiary specialised in the manufacture of metallic components for Aerospace/ Aviation, Defence, and Oil & Gas industries, has entered...
Sikorsky meets accelerated BLACK HAWK Helicopter deliveries for Sweden
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Nov , 2011
Sikorsky Aircraft, a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp. today delivered to the U.S. Army the fourth of 15 UH-60M BLACK HAWK aircraft for further transfer to the Swedish Defence Material...