PARIS, France --- Bombardier Aerospace announced today that it wrapped up a very successful week at the Paris Air Show with up to $4.7 billion US in firm orders, options and purchase rights for its technologically advanced CSeries airliner and large cabin Global 7000 and Global 8000 business aircraft
The C-130J full-mission simulator being designed and manufactured for the Indian Air Force (IAF) will be ready for training by February 2012. It will be installed at the Hindon Air Force Station near New Delhi
The Helicopter Academy to Train by Simulation of Flying (HATSOFF), the joint venture between Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) and CAE, has announced that its simulator cockpit for the civil/conventional variant of the Dhruv has been certified to Level D, the highest qualification for flight simulators, by India’s Directorate General Civil Aviation (DGCA). The civil/conventional Dhruv simulator cockpit has been integrated with the CAE-built full-mission simulator currently in operation at HATSOFF
The United Nations Security Council and Western powers are debating the feasibility and benefits of enforcing a no-fly zone over Libya to halt air raids by the regime of Moammar Gadhafi on rebel forces and unarmed demonstrators who launched on February 17 a revolution to overthrow the four-decade-long Ghadafi dictatorship. The rebels' onslaught on Gadhafi was halted and sometimes pushed back by the Libyan Air Force, or what is left of it
Al Jaber Group and Diehl Defence signed a joint venture during IDEX 2011. The agreement is dedicated for the joint modernisation and upgrade of the United Arab Emirates military land vehicles
Underpinning the growing importance of support and services to its business portfolio, BAE Systems has today announced a new £8.3M contract to continue support of Hawk jet trainers at the NATO Flying Training programme based in Canada (NFTC)
Asia’s biggest aerospace exposition, Aero India-2011, got off to a flying start at Yelahanka air base in Bengaluru, today. Defence Minister Shri AK Antony inaugurated the five-day event witnessed by a galaxy of officials, industry delegates, exhibitors and representatives from over 40 foreign countries
The American Chamber of Commerce in India (AmCham) is pursuing further evolution of the Indian defence offsets policy. While largely welcoming the Defence Procurement Policy (DPP) 2011, it would like to see offset multipliers and transfer of technology included in the next review of the policy
More than 80 major exhibitors have confirmed their attendance at the inaugural NAVDEX (Naval Defence Exhibition), which will be held in parallel with IDEX, the region’s leading defence and security show, at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre from 20th – 24th February 2011, under the patronage of of His Highness Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the UAE. Visitors to NAVDEX can expect to see the latest in naval defence technology with exhibits of warships, naval workboats and amphibious crafts, combat equipment, coastal security systems and sea-to-shore communication solutions
Swedish SAAB has won a contract to supply a coastal surveillance system for the 7400-kilometer Indian coast. The contract, awarded by India’s Director General of Lighthouses and Lightships (DGLL), is worth around USD 16 million