IDR Updates
Air Marshal NAK Browne will be the next Chief of Air Staff
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 May , 2011
Vice Chief of Air Staff Air Marshal NAK Browne will be the next Chief of Air Staff on the retirement of Air Chief Marshal PV Naik from government service on July 31, 2011. Born in Allahabad on...
MBDA’s PARS 3 LR successfully tested on German Tiger
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 May , 2011
Three firings, three hits! This is the impressive score of the test firing exercise conducted with the PARS 3 LR guided antitank missile system. For the first time, the test firings with...
UTair’sTraining Center joins Eurocopter Global Training Network
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 May , 2011
Andrei Martirosov, CEO UTair Aviation, and Vladimir Demkin, director of Personnel Training Center (PTC) received from Derek Sharples, Eurocopter Executive Vice President for Support and...
Sea Viper support contract awarded to MBDA
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 May , 2011
MBDA has been awarded a £165M contract to provide the support for Sea Viper, the Royal Navy’s latest and most modern weapon system. Sea Viper is a world leading area air defence missile system...
A Shoddy Counter-Terrorism Data-Base
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 May , 2011
More than two years after the 26/11 terrorist strikes in Mumbai and the setting-up of the National Investigation Agency (NIA), the Government of India continues to have a shoddy...
Burbank Group Orders an AW109 Power Helicopter
By: IDR News Network | Date: 19 May , 2011
AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica company, is pleased to announce that Burbank Group of Australia has placed an order for one AW109 Power light twin helicopter. This aircraft will be used to...
Boeing KC-767 Tankers for Italian Air Force
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 May , 2011
The first two Boeing KC-767 advanced aerial refueling tankers for the Italian Air Force (ItAF) formally entered into service during a public ceremony near Rome. The ItAF accepted delivery of the...
Genel Havacilik A.S. Orders a GrandNew Helicopter
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 May , 2011
AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica company, announced that Genel Havacilik A.S. of Turkey has placed an order for a GrandNew light twin helicopter. The aircraft will be used to perform VIP transport...
India and US enhance partnership in joint anti-terrorism
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 May , 2011
The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security, in partnership with the Indian Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), on May 13 concluded a two-week seminar on the role of police leaders...
Pak Army & ISI: Dangerous mix of Humiliation & Desperation
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 May , 2011
A dangerous mix of humiliation and desperation is the prevailing mood in the Pakistani Armed Forces and its Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) in the wake of the death of Osama bin Laden in a...
Eurocopter X3 hybrid helicopter exceeds its speed challenge
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 May , 2011
Eurocopter’s X3 hybrid helicopter demonstrator has delivered on the promise of pushing the frontiers in rotary-wing aviation by surpassing its original speed target of 220 kts. demonstrating the...
EADS invites young talents and experienced professionals to Le Bourget Air Show
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 May , 2011
More than 20 workshops, more than 1000 participants expected EADS CEO Louis Gallois and other top executives to attend the workshops Recruitment targets of more than 4000 permanent recruits...
All eyes on Gilani’s visit to China
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 May , 2011
All eyes in Pakistan are on the four-day visit to China from May 17,2011, by Prime Minister Yousef Raza Gilani. The dates of the visit were finalized some weeks ago to enable him to participate...
Pakistan:Hit,Hit,Talk,Talk!
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 May , 2011
Senator John Kerry, Chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is presently in Afghanistan on his way to Pakistan. His visit to Pakistan has been triggered off by the discovery of...
An Intelligence failure, not an ISI failure!
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 May , 2011
The success of Osama bin Laden in evading detection and arrest by the Pakistani security agencies for nearly six years since 2005 when he lived in a house near the Pakistan Military Academy...
Boeing Awarded CH-47F Chinook Modification Work by US Army
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 May , 2011
Boeing received a $23.7 million contract on May 9 to perform Initial Production Fielding Support modifications on 49 CH-47F Chinook helicopters at the Boeing Millville Modification Center. The...
SELEX Galileo acquires UTRI and reinforces its UAS capability
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 May , 2011
SELEX Galileo, a Finmeccanica company and leader in Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), is pleased to announce the acquisition of Italian technology firm UTRI (Unmanned Technologies Research...
AgustaWestland and the European Defence Agency Launch Synthetic Helicopter...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 May , 2011
AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica company, is pleased to announce that it has signed a contract with the European Defence Agency for the provision of an Interim Helicopter Tactics Training Service....
Pak nukes now became an embarrassment and a problem
By: Sunita Joshi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 May , 2011
Abbotabad Raid : The Decision Nearly 3 years ago, in July 2008 the author came across a book that dealt with the likely locating of Osama Bin Laden (OBL for short) in a Pakistani city. The book...
Osama bin Laden: Significant pointers
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 May , 2011
It used to be said that Osama bin Laden moved around with a large number of bodyguards to protect him. They had instructions to kill him to prevent his being captured. It would be diificult for...