IDR Updates
Saab establishing Research and Development Centre in India
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Feb , 2011
During Aero India in Bangalore, Saab announced the establishment of a Research and Development Centre in India. With the establishment of this Research & Development Centre Saab will create a...
Boeing Announces Expanded Partnership with India
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Feb , 2011
The Boeing Company announced plans to further deepen its relations with suppliers and partners in India. The company has outlined a comprehensive strategy to develop India’s industrial...
British Defence Minister announces contract between India’s HAL and General...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Feb , 2011
General Dynamics UK has signed its first contract with an Indian customer, delivering an innovative approach to sharing its Intellectual Property (IP) with its Indian partner. The company signed...
CASSIDIAN opens new Engineering Centre in Bengaluru
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Feb , 2011
Cassidian, the defence and security division of EADS, has opened a new Engineering Centre in Bengaluru, India. This is the first defence oriented engineering centre operated by a foreign company...
Cassidian creates strategic partnerships with India
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol 26.1 Jan-Mar 2011 | Date: 09 Feb , 2011
Cassidian considers India as a key market with an expanding defence and security industry and even more so as a rapidly growing country which offers excellent opportunities for long-lasting...
India needs independent defence think tanks
By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman | Issue: Vol 23.3 Jul-Sep 2008 | Date: 07 Feb , 2011
During his address at the 42nd Foundation Day function of the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA), the Vice President of India, Mr M Hamid Ansari stressed the need for structured...
The Fragile Af-Pak Policy
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Vol 24.4 Oct-Dec 2009 | Date: 07 Feb , 2011
With each passing day, it is becoming increasingly obvious that the Obama administration’s so-called Af–Pak policy is simply not working. The fraudulent Presidential elections in...
C-130J’s induction testimony to India’s role as a global leader: US...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Feb , 2011
The Indian Air Force inducted the first of six Lockheed Martin C-130J ‘Super Hercules’ aircraft into its transportation fleet today at a ceremony at Air Force Station Hindan. This historic...
Eurofighter Typhoons land in Bengaluru
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Feb , 2011
Two Eurofighter Typhoons of the Italian Air Force arrived safely in Bengaluru to showcase their outstanding operational capabilities at Aero India 2011. The air show will be held at the Air...
BAE Systems supports the Typhoon bid for MMRCA
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Feb , 2011
Underlining its commitment to Typhoon, BAE Systems will continue its vigorous support of the Typhoon bid for the Medium Multi Role Combat Aircraft (MMRCA) programme at Aero India that starts...
The Arab lessons
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Feb , 2011
While it will be little premature to suggest that a democratic revolution is sweeping across the Arab world at the moment, the Arabs are no doubt undergoing a great period of turmoil. It started...
Aerospace Leadership in the coming decades gets underway
By: IDR News Network | Date: 04 Feb , 2011
The third edition of “Jumbo” Majumdar International Conference on “Aerospace Leadership in the coming decades” was inaugurated by Minister of State for Defence, Dr MM Pallam Raju, in New Delhi,...
Pak nuclear card limits Indian anti-terror options
By: Lt Gen Harwant Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Feb , 2011
ITS three decades since Pakistan has been fermenting trouble in India. It started with Punjab and later in Jammu and Kashmir, followed by sporadic terrorist attacks in rest of India. While it is...
Nexter is aboard ALH and LCH
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Feb , 2011
Nexter is an European leader in defense systems. Nexter is a major supplier of the air forces and army light aviations for high performances weaponery and protection systems. It provides also...
India 2025: A Global Defence Exports Hub?
By: Rahul K Bhonsle | Issue: Vol 25.1 Jan-Mar 2010 | Date: 04 Feb , 2011
The inflection point to the evolution of a collaborative defence industry model in India through a public-private partnership appears around the corner as we go into Defexpo 2010 with over 500...
Coastal and maritime security: two sides of the same coin
By: Vice Admiral PS Das | Issue: Vol 24.1 Jan-Mar 2009 | Date: 04 Feb , 2011
The Mumbai terrorist attack of 26th November 2008 has, correctly, focused on issues concerning the security of India’s vast coastline. Earlier, in 1993, the Maharashtra coast had been used to...
Egypt: The Modified Script
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Feb , 2011
The contagion of protests spreading from one country to another in the Arab world has made the ruling dispensations edgy and nervous. The general feeling in India and many other parts of the...
ALH Dhruv Simulator Cockpit at HATSOFF
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Feb , 2011
The Helicopter Academy to Train by Simulation of Flying (HATSOFF) is a Rs 300 crore joint venture enterprise with 50:50 partnership between Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) and CAE of Canada....
Aero India 2011 to surpass all previous edition statistics
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Feb , 2011
The 8th edition of Aero India, being held in Bengaluru from February 9 to 13, 2011, is expected to surpass all previous editions of the premiere air show in terms of participation and volume....
The Basic Military Laws!
By: Anonymous | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Feb , 2011
Try to look unimportant; the enemy may be low on ammo and not want to waste a bullet on you. • Never share a foxhole with anyone braver than yourself. • Never forget that your weapon was...