SP's MAI - Issue No. 9 | May 01-15, 2012
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The moot point is China knows her critical areas are now within the Indian sphere.
The Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) boosted its capability to detect and track aerial threats as it marked the achievement of Full Operational Capability (FOC) status by its Gulfstream 550 AEW aircraft on April 13, 2012.
The Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, inaugurated the Chief Ministers’ Conference on Internal Security in New Delhi recently.
Aerospace and defence major, Thales, sees big future in the transportation sector in India. In an informal interaction with SP’s M.A.I. Editor-in Chief Jayant Baranwal, Eric Lenseigne, Managing Director & Country Director, Thales India said that he is bullish about the scope of business with railways transportation sector in India (Indian Railways and metro railway).
Despite the lofty rhetoric emanating from the strategic community in India...
BAE Systems announced a $367 million contract to deliver 70 digital electronic warfare systems/common missile warning systems...
Stalag Luft III (Stammlager Luft, or POW Camp for Airmen #3) was a Luftwaffe-run prisoner-of-war camp during World War II that housed captured air force servicemen.
The maiden flight of the naval variant of the Light Combat Aircraft (LCA-NP-1) was carried out successfully on April 27 at HAL Airport, Bangalore.
Europrop International (EPI) has started delivery of the first production series TP400-D6 engines which will power the French Air Force’s first A400M military transport aircraft into service in early 2013.
In 2003, the Antwerp Diamond Center in Belgium was robbed of over £62 million worth of diamonds.
The Defence Minister A.K. Antony recently told the top brass of armed forces that while modernisation remains the topmost priority of the Government and to achieve the same a mechanism has been put in place...
The Boeing Company and its Dutch partner the Rotary Wing Training Center (RWTC) officially opened a stateof-the-art CH-47 Chinook helicopter maintenance training facility near Royal Netherlands Air Force base...
In 1982 a group of six Parisian teenagers pulled off what would prove to be a fateful theft.
Eurosatory 2012 (June 11-15) will give Iveco-Oto Melara the opportunity to display the most innovative developments in its product range.
The aircraft of 33 Sqadron, RAAF carried 220 passengers from the Australian Defence Force Academy as well as its 14 crew, on a two-hour flight from Defence Establishment Fairbairn last month.
A total 426 cases of alleged fake encounters by police, defence and central armed police forces were registered by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) during the period 2009-10 to 2011-12. For the current year 2012-13, as on April 17, 2012, no such case has been registered.
UK-based defence manufacturer L-3 TRL launched its new Broadshield vehicle systems at the Defence Services Asia 2012 (DSA 2012) Exhibition...
Rolls-Royce, the global power systems company, has signed a $598 million contract with the US Department of Defense for 268 AE 1107C engines for US Marine Corps and Air Force V-22 aircraft.
HMS Dragon, the fourth of the Royal Navy’s new powerful Type 45 destroyers, was formally commissioned into the fleet on Friday.
The US Navy has selected Northrop Grumman to produce the next-generation Fire Scout unmanned helicopter using the Bell 407 airframe.
The Norwegian Government today presented a bill concerning the new and modified CV90 fighting vehicles for the Norwegian Army.
The K-MAX cargo unmanned helicopter has impressed Marine Corps aviation leaders since the aircraft deployed to Afghanistan on December 17...
BAE Systems has received a $75 million order from the US Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) to produce and deliver hard armour inserts used to protect Soldiers and other men and women in combat.
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI), a leading...
Textron Marine & Land Systems (TM&LS) announced it received a second option award from the US Army Contracting Command, Warren, Michigan...
The first ten Rafale Marine fighters delivered to the French Navy in the early 2000s will be upgraded from their current F1 standard to the latest F3 standard, according to Christophe Carpentier...
eneral Dynamics Armament and Technical Products, a business unit of General Dynamics, was awarded a $6.9 million contract by the US Army TACOM Life Cycle Management Command...
Discrimination between the private industry and the public sector is prominent but not being rectified where individual fiscal benefits may well be axiomatic.
There are major anomalies in India’s defence procurement system which calls for farreaching reforms if India is to emerge as a nation which can look after its own defence needs
Ultimately the modernisation programmes of the armed forces suffer from severe time and cost overruns, adversely impacting upon the depleting force levels.
The larger context here is the increasing trend of pressures being brought to bear by several interest groups...
On April 23, Navantia has commissioned to the Venezuelan Navy the fourth Economic Zone Patrol Boat (PVOZEE), named Kariña (PC-24).