Bengaluru Space Expo 2010

IDR at the DefExpo 2010

Future Trends in Aviation

Birth and Growth of Aviation

Since the Wright Brothers took their first hesitant hop just over a century ago, aeronautical science has advanced at a phenomenal pace seemingly defying all limits of imagination and giving unprecedented mastery of the air to mankind. Having landed on the moon within seven decades of the historic first manned powered flight, man is now aspiring to expand interplanetary exploration with the aim to conquer and colonize space to exploit its resources, yet unknown, as also without doubt, to dominate the world. Read More »

Indian Shipbuilding: key to maritime and economic security

The first anniversary of 26/11 brings to mind the profound statement of Jawaharlal Nehru ‘To be secure on land we must be supreme at sea’. While Pandit Nehru’s views would have been formed in the wake of the colonization of the subcontinent, his words are a timeless truth which holds good to this day. Post independence, two major assaults on our financial capital, Mumbai, came from the sea, the first being the landing of explosives used for the “Bombay Blasts” in 1993 Read More »

Army’s Capability Accretion

The challenges that the army is expected to face in the next decade are not likely to be any less formidable. An appraisal of the emerging threats in fact indicates an increasing complexity of the missions that the army may be expected to execute. Read More »

India and the US: haunting past and beckoning future

The US will continue to be a pre-eminent power of the world. Despite its growing economic and military strength, China will not be able to challenge the pre-eminence of the US. The pre-eminence of a nation is not derived only from its GDP growth rate, foreign trade and military modernization. It is also derived from its intellectual, technological, Read More »

The truth about Defexpo straight from Bharat Verma, Editor, Indian Defence Review

Aerospace and Defence News

MILITARY AVIATION

Northrop Grumman and EADS Unveil Euro Hawk UAV 14 October 2009

On October 08, US aerospace major Northrop Grumman and Germany’s EADS Defence & Security together unveiled Germany’s first unmanned reconnaissance aircraft - the Euro Hawk, which resembles the US UAV Global Hawk. Equipped with signal intelligence mission system developed by EADS Defence & Security, the Euro Hawk will be provided a SIGINT ground station to receive and analyze data from it as part of an integrated system solution, Read More »

IDR Interview: Admiral Nirmal Verma, Chief of the Naval Staff

 “The Indian Navy has been designated as the authority responsible for overall maritime security”

Arihant and Sea based Nuclear Deterrent

One of the most significant events in the recent times has been the commissioning of India’s nuclear submarine in July this year, even if she has a way to go before attaining op status. India has declared its intention of building a sea based deterrent as part of the triad. What are the challenges you visualize in creating this force, and in what time will we get there? Read More »

Women in the Armed Forces: misconceptions and facts

The recent debate about the induction of women in the armed forces has been highly skewed and shallow. An issue that critically affects the fighting potential of the armed forces has been reduced to ‘equality of sexes’ and ‘women’s liberation’. Many ill-informed observers have trifled such a sensitive matter by terming it as ‘conquering the last male bastion’. Sadly Read More »

Unprepared and Unwilling

The creeping invasion by authoritarian regimes will engulf Asia by 2020 as democracies continue to retreat. India is unprepared and unwilling to safeguard the Asian democratic space.

The growing clout of totalitarian regimes coupled with the non-state actors is set to shrink the democratic space in Asia. If the onslaught is not reversed, by end of the next decade, Islamic fundamentalist regimes, communist dictatorships, military juntas and the non-state actors will redraw the international boundaries and largely govern Asia. Read More »