IDR Updates
Israel Highlights Latest Aerospace Trends at the National Pavilion at the...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Jun , 2011
The 49th Paris Air Show taking place at Le Bourget, Paris June 20 – 26, offers the biggest showcase for Israel’s Aerospace and Defense (A&D) industries. Israel is participating in this biennial...
EADS enhances online services for media
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Jun , 2011
EADS press website now offering extended resources and services tailored to journalists´ needs EADS press twitter account goes online Dedicated microsite features EADS’ presence at Paris Air...
Aerovision and UniAir present the 1st Falcon 50 Flying Camera
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Jun , 2011
The business aviation company AEROVISION and sister company UNIAIR, a maintenance workshop, are proud to present an exclusive aircraft specifically modified for aerial pictures. The pod camera...
Boeing 747-8 Freighter to fly to Paris Air Show on sustainable Biofuel
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Jun , 2011
Boeing will fly the new 747-8 Freighter to its international air show debut in a doubly historic fashion, flying the airplane across the Atlantic Ocean to the Paris Air Show using a renewable...
Al-Zawahiri: Advocate of Global Jihadi Intifada
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Jun , 2011
Six weeks after the death of Osama bin Laden on May 2, 2011, Al Qaeda’s General Command has announced the appointment of Ayman al-Zawahiri, of Egypt, who was OBL’s No.2, as the new head of...
India’s Seapower in the Twenty-First Century
By: Vice Admiral Mihir K. Roy | Issue: Book Excerpt: War in the Indian Ocean | Date: 17 Jun , 2011
India continues her quest for a coherent maritime policy. Her continental mindset however ensures that not one inch of her territory will be captured from across land borders. But perhaps...
SELEX Galileo showcases its integrated airborne surveillance and air...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Jun , 2011
SELEX Galileo, a Finmeccanica company, is demonstrating its leadership in airborne sensors, mission systems and integrated solutions as part of the Finmeccanica exhibit at the 49th Paris Air...
Rheinmetall unveils new HE DM11 secondary ammunition for MBT 120mm...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Jun , 2011
Rheinmetall recently revealed a new 120m HE round to a group of international experts at its proving ground in Unterlüß, Germany. It can be fired from any in-service 120mm smoothbore gun (L44...
Boeing to Build 10 C-17 Airlifters for Indian Air Force
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Jun , 2011
Boeing announced that India’s Ministry of Defence has signed an agreement with the U.S. government to acquire 10 Boeing C-17 Globemaster III airlifters. The Foreign Military Sale — approved by...
High Court ruling can make the Armed Forces Tribunal infructuous
By: Lt Gen Harwant Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Jun , 2011
The defence services had been clamouring for an Armed Forces Tribunal (AFT) for decades, essentially because the civilian courts took years and even decades to decide their cases. These...
Cobham Delivers Converted Aircraft to Ascent Flight Training Ltd for UK MFTS
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Jun , 2011
Cobham has delivered four converted Hawker-Beechcraft B350ER King Air special mission aircraft to Ascent Flight Training Limited for the United Kingdom Military Flying Training System (UKMFTS)....
Eurocopter innovation takes to the skies at Paris Air Show
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Jun , 2011
Eurocopter’s commitment to innovation will be showcased at the 2011 Paris Air Show, where the company’s high-profile participation is to include the first public flight presentations of its X3...
Thales completes successful flight demonstration for full automatic one-ton...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Jun , 2011
Thales today announced that it has successfully achieved, with its partner Boeing, the full automatic landing of a one ton class VTOL (Vertical Take Off and Landing) UAV. The automatic landing...
Lockheed Martin MH-60R Lands on LCS for First Time
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Jun , 2011
The sun provided the light, a U.S. Navy photographer manned the camera and two Lockheed Martin programs provided the action during recent training operations in the Pacific Ocean. A U.S. Navy...
Growing Chinese concern over internal turmoil
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Jun , 2011
The authorities of the Chinese Ministry of Public Security, who are responsible for internal intelligence, internal security and law and order, seem to be increasingly concerned over the...
Boeing Completes Delta System Definition Review of Crew Space Transportation...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Jun , 2011
Boeing completed the Delta System Definition Review (SDR) of the company’s Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 space capsule design. The milestone follows NASA’s award of a Commercial Crew...
Chinese restraint has its limits, Vietnam cautioned
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Jun , 2011
Through articles in the Chinese Communist Party controlled media that appeared on June 20 and 21, 2011, the Chinese authorities have clearly warned of the likely consequences of what they see as...
Indo-Pak Foreign Secretaries’ Talks
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Jun , 2011
Mrs. Nirupama Rao, India’s Foreign Secretary, and her Pakistani counterpart Mr. Salman Bashir are to meet at Islamabad on June 23 and 24, 2011. The meeting is expected to review the results of...
Post-Abbottabad Pak sulking has had no impact on Obama
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Jun , 2011
Pakistan’s post-Abbottabad sulking and partly-real, partly-manufactured anti-US anger have had no impact on President Barack Obama’s counter-sanctuary emphasis in his counter-terrorism strategy....
Somali Piracy: New Delhi groping in the dark
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Jun , 2011
We are still groping in the dark in matters relating to action against the Somali pirates, who are more and more active despite all the preventive patrolling, more and more venturesome coming...