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'3
Idiots' UAV inducted into counter-insurgency
operations |
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January
2012
New Delhi. The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV),
that awed viewers in the Bollywood hit "3
Idiots", has been officially inducted into
the paramilitary forces. The Border Security
Force (BSF) and the Central Reserve Police
Force (CRPF) are using the drone, titled Netra
(or eye), in counter-insurgency operations.
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F-35A
Executes First Night Flight |
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January
2012
FORT WORTH, Texas. The first night flight
in the history of the Lockheed Martin F-35
program was completed on Jan. 19, 2012 in
the skies above Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.
Piloted by Lockheed Martin Test Pilot Mark
Ward, AF-6, an F-35A conventional takeoff
and landing (CTOL) variant, launched at 5:05
p.m. PST and landed after sunset at 6:22 p.m.
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Honeywell
committed to create a new generation of Indian
Aerospace engineers |
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December
2011
New Delhi. Catch them young and get them interested
is the new mantra in India’s growing aerospace
industry. Honeywell pioneers in crusading
to instill the love for aerospace in the growing
India. |
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Saab
proud about Swiss government selecting Gripen |
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December
2011
Stockholm. The Swiss government has decided
to select Gripen as its future multirole fighter
aircraft for the Swiss Air Force. |
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Lockheed
Martin rolls out 187th, final F 22 Raptor
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December
2011
Marietta. The final Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor
rolled off the assembly line here Dec 13 and
was commemorated with a ceremony recognizing
contributions from thousands of people associated
with the design and construction of the Raptor
fleet1. |
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Russia
deploys airspace umbrella |
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December
2011
Moscow. Russia has deployed a new airspace
umbrella effective Dec 1. |
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Agusta
Westland to deliver VIP helicopters from 2012
to IAF |
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July
2011
Paris. Close on the heels of having taken
delivery of Business Jets for VVIP travel,
India will receive the first batch of the
12 helicopters for transportation of VIPs
by next year. |
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Boeing
EA-18G Growlers Complete 1st Combat Deployment
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July
2011
St. Louis. Boeing EA-18G Growlers operated
by U.S. Navy electronic attack squadron VAQ-132
safely returned to their home base at Naval
Air Station Whidbey Island, Wash., on July
9, after completing an eight-month deployment
that included combat operations in the U.S.
Central Command (CENTCOM) and U.S. Africa
Command (AFRICOM) areas of responsibility.
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Boeing
Delivers 2nd C-17 to UAE Air Force |
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June
2011
LONG BEACH, Calif. Boeing delivered a second
C-17 Globemaster III airlifter to the United
Arab Emirates (UAE) Air Force and Air Defence
June 10 at the C-17 program’s final assembly
facility in Long Beach. |
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A320/A321
passenger to freighter conversion program
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June
2011
Moscow. Cooperation between the Russian and
West-European partners to convert passenger
A320/A321 to freighter, set up in 2007, is
steady and strong. |
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Boeing
Delivers first C 17 to UAE Air Force |
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May
2011
Long Beach. Boeing has delivered the first
of six C-17 Globemaster III airlifters to
the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Air Force and
Air Defence. |
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Boeing
wins USAF Contract for Next-Gen Refueling
Tanker |
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Feburary
2011
St Louis. Boeing has finally won the world’s
biggest aerial tanker programme, defeating
EADS which had appeared to be the favourite
so far. |
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Embraer
rolls out plane for India's airborne radar
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Feburary
2011
New Delhi. Brazilian aircraft manufacturer
Embraer has rolled out the first of the three
EMB-145I planes that India has ordered for
its indigenous airborne early warning radars. |
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Flight
of the Dragon: China’s First Stealth Aircraft
is Ready |
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Feburary
2011
New Delhi. Keeping in tune with its much-debated
and controversial military modernisation programme,
China has rolled out its first J-20 radarevading
stealth fighter in early January 2011. |
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DRDO’s
UAV Nishant completes Confirmatory Trials
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January
2011
Bangalore. India’s Nishant UAV has successfully
completed the series of confirmatory trials
conducted by the Indian Army. |
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A
tale of two night witches and one war |
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January
2011
Moscow. The Soviet Union’s all-female air
regiments flew more than 30,000 missions and
dropped 3,000 tons of bombs along the Eastern
Front in World War II. |
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India
to develop electronic warfare system soon
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November
2010
Bangalore. India is developing its own radar-based
electronic warfare system (EWS) with two test
ranges in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh to
equip its armed forces for modern wars, a
senior defence official says. |
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Indian
UAV has maiden flight |
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October
2010
Bangalore. India’s first medium altitude indigenous
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) had its maiden
flight 16 Oct, meeting all mission parameters
successfully. |
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India's
first advanced AEW system to roll out end-2011
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November
2010
New Delhi. India’s first indigenously-developed
Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEW&C)
system is ready and is being sent to Brazil
shortly to be integrated with an Embraer 145
jet. |
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Russia
to produce Israeli drones |
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October
2010
Moscow. Russian defense firm Oboronprom is
to use Israeli components to assemble unmanned
aerial vehicles, primarily intended for civilian
customers, at a helicopter plant in Tatarstan. |
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GE
414 to power India’s Light Combat Aircraft |
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October
2010
New Delhi/ Bangalore. GE Aviation has won
its first engine contract to power fighter
jets for India. |
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Indo-Russian
Multirole Transport Aircraft to fly by 2017 |
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September
2010
New Delhi. The Indo-Russian Multirole Transport
Aircraft (MTA) should be flying in about seven
years, say by 2017. |
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India,
Russia finalize transport aircraft project
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September
2010
New Delhi. India and Russia have finalized
participation arrangements to jointly develop
the Multi-role Transport Aircraft (MTA) with
each side pooling in $ 300.35 million. |
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Farnborough
Air Show: India stays a star attraction |
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August
2010
London. It was as big a show as ever at Farnborough
Air Show 2010, laced with spectacular world
class flying displays and the powerful inspiring
sounds of military and civil aircraft. |
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ILA
2010: The Berlin Air Show marks 100th anniversary |
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June
2010
Berlin. The USD 10 billion competition for
126 Medium Multi role Combat Aircraft (M-MRCA)
was electrifying the Berlin Air Show, which
otherwise marked its 100th anniversary with
much fanfare and enthusiasm. |
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A400M:
On the road to united defence of European
skies |
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June
2010
Seville. Common, rather than isolated, European
defence of its skies and humanitarian missions
will be a reality, with the development of
the 21st Century tactical and logistical Airlifter,
the A400M by Airbus Military. |
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UAE to get its first C 17 in 2011 |
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June 2010
Los Angeles. The United Arab Emirates
(UAE) will get the first of its six C 17
Globemaster-III aircraft in 2011.
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Indian armed forces set for paradigm shift
with Super Hercules airlifter |
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April 2010
Marietta (Georgia). In just about a year
the Indian Air Force (IAF) will begin receiving
the first of six C-130J Super Hercules airlifters
it has purchased for $1 billion, the aircraft
signaling a paradigm shift in the manner
in which the armed forces train for specialised
operations.
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US offers ASTOR airborne radar to India |
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March 2010
New Delhi. After F 35 JSF, F 16 Super Viper,
F 18 Super Hornet and P8I aircraft and other
weapon systems, the US has now offered another
sophisticated system to India, the Airborne
Stand-Off Radar (ASTOR).
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Force Multipliers And The Future of Aerospace
Operations |
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March 2010
Bangalore. Force Multipliers and Aerospace
Power have an intrinsic inter-relationship
– primarily because of the images of a hi-tech
world that both terms conjure up!
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India's HAL supplies parts for US fighter
jet |
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February 2010
New Delhi: In a first of sorts, an Indian
company has started supplying fuselage parts
for the formidable Boeing F/A 18 E/F Super
Hornet fighter jet.
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HAL to Invest $ 6 billion to boost capability
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December 2009
Bangalore. India’s state-owned aeronautical
and defence major Hindustan Aeronautics
Ltd (HAL) is planning an investment of Rs.25,000
crores ($ 6 billion approx) over the next
decade to enhance its design and production
capability for different types of aircraft,
including rotary wing machines.
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Russia to have 70 per cent new aircraft by
2020 |
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August 2009
Moscow. New and modernized aircraft will
comprise 70 per cent of the Russian Air
Force by 2020.
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AWACS:
Watchdogs of the Skies |
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July
2009
In today’s air warfare, the Airborne
Early Warning and Control (AEW&C) aircraft
will detect, identify and classify hostile
intruders and then, acting as a Command &
Control Centre, will employ its air defence
forces to neutralize the threats to Nation’s
assets. |
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Italian
Eurofighters first to accomplish |
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July
2009
New Delhi, May 22. India dispatched
a team of 27 doctors and paramedics to the
war ravaged northern Sri R ome. The Italian
Eurofighters Rare the first to successfully
pass NATO’s operational assessment and they
are now ready to be deployed abroad for peace-keeping
and peace-making operations. |
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SAMTEL:
shows its Full Color |
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July
2009
Paris. India’s New Delhi-based SAMTEL
exhibited its new Full Color Display (FCD)
for the Airbus aircraft at the Paris Air Show.
Shown for the first time at Le Bourget, the
FCD is integrated in a 6 x 6 Thales display
unit for the Airbus family of aircraft in
their modern advanced cockpits. According
to Executive Director Puneet Kaura, SAMTEL
is the only Indian company to have co-developed
an FCD for the Airbus. |
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Electronic
warfare, a crucial factor in future conflicts
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June
2009
Moscow. In Soviet times, electronic
warfare systems were used to jam foreign shortwave
radio broadcasts. Nowadays, electronic warfare
has become a serious military activity with
numerous applications. |
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Military
bases abroad: Ambitions and Opportunities
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March
2009
Moscow. The Russian Navy is going to
return to its bases abroad. |
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Indigenous
Tejas combat jet successfully tested at high
altitude air base |
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December
2008
New Delhi. India's indigenously developed
Tejas Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) has achieved
another milestone by successfully landing
at the Leh airbase in Jammu and Kashmir, one
of the highest airfields in the world at 10,600
ft. |
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Future
War needs Human Interface |
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November
2008
New Delhi. India needs a new civilian-military
joint duty programme to ensure that the government
has a clear, long-term policy on the country’s
defence and strategic interests, and the armed
forces work in that perspective smoothly and
effectively. |
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Eurofighter
Capable of Electronic Warfare |
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September
2008
Munich. The Eurofighter Typhoon is
capable of electronic warfare, and this capability
can be very effective in air to air and air
to ground missions. |
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F
18 Super Hornet Staying Out in Front |
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September
2008
St Louis. In the movie industry, it’s
called a sleeper – a film that doesn’t seem
to grab much publicity initially but turns
out to be great film. |
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IAF
inducts indigenously built Hawk AJT |
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August
2008
Bangalore. In a step with major implications
for pilot training, the Indian Air Force IAF)recently
got its first indigenously built Hawk Mk-132
Advanced Jet Trainer (AJT), manufactured at
the state-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd
(HAL). |
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China
ranks third in world military expenses |
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July
2008
Moscow. Last year, the three nations
with the world’s biggest military expenses
were the United States ($547 billion), the
United Kingdom ($59.7 billion) and China ($58.3
billion). |
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F-16IN
and C-130J Super Hercules: Two Best Choices
for India |
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June
2008
Lockheed Martin’s advanced technology
F-16IN and the C-130J Super Hercules are the
right choices to meet or exceed India’s defense
requirements. |
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Laser
Plane Closer to Missile Kill |
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January
2008
Washington. Boeing and its associates
are getting closer to killing missiles with
lasers while in flight. |
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Boeing
Flies Blended Wing Body Aircraft |
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September
2007
CHICAGO. The innovative Boeing Blended
Wing Body (BWB) research aircraft -- designated
the X-48B - flew for the first time in July
at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center
at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
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Lockheed
Martin To Produce 20 New F 16s For Turkey |
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September
2007
Bethesda. The US government
has awarded an initial $187 million for
long-lead tasks as part of a $1.1 billion
contract to Lockheed Martin for the production
of 30 new Advanced Block 50 F-16 aircraft
for Turkey.
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The
Paris Air Show |
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July 2007
Paris. I have always been
dazzled by Paris, a city close to my heart
ever since my days in the Middle East when
I had to travel frequently from Dubai to
Algiers, Tunis, Casablanca or other North
African cities; Air France provided the
best connections and Paris, the best possible
layover.
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V22
Tiltrotor aircraft ready for action in Iraq |
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July 2007
US Marines practice Touchand-Go landings
on board USS Wasp, an amphibious assault
ship operated by the Marines. The vessel
has a complement of 1100 of. cers and men,
and can carry 2200 troops. It has 600 beds
for war casualties. USS Wasp can accommodate
amphibious assault vessels, helicopters
and Harrier AV 8B V/STOL aircraft.
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Six
C130J Aircraft @ $1 billion |
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June 2007
Washington. The United
States has offered India a $1,059 million
deal to sell six C-130J Hercules aircraft
with associated equipment and services to
provide it special operations airlift capability
and ensure interoperability with American
forces in coalition operations.
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