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Reputations are made and destroyed in the oil industry for those hazarding educated estimates of where the oil price is headed. Remember the prediction that oil price is headed to $200 per...

Boeing Delivers 18th P-8A Poseidon to the US Navy

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 October 2014

Boeing delivered the 18th P-8A Poseidon aircraft to the U.S. Navy ahead of schedule October 14, where it joined other Poseidon aircraft being used to train Navy crews. The P-8A departed Boeing...

Rolls-Royce advance and Ultrafan CTi Fan Blade flies for the first time

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 October 2014

The Rolls-Royce composite carbon/titanium (CTi) fan blade for the Advance and UltraFan™ engine designs has taken to the skies for the first time, marking another milestone for the programme. A...

Successful implementation of the new redesigned shaft on first EC225s/EC725s

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 October 2014

Airbus Helicopters is working alongside operators of its EC225 and EC725 aircraft to implement the final step of its proven solution: the retrofit of the worldwide EC225/EC725 fleet with the...

ISIS Flags in Kashmir: Dangers ensconced in mass appeal

By: Danvir Singh |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 October 2014

On Oct 14, Indians were shocked by the visuals on their television sets of a stone pelting ritual in Srinagar. An event generally played out after the Friday prayers, however this time occurring...

The Rajapaksa Model of Combating Terror

By: VK Shashikumar |Issue: Vol 24.4 Oct-Dec 2009 | Date: 16 October 2014

Mahinda Rajapaksa, President, Sri Lanka spoke to VK Shashikumar of the Indian Defence Review on a range of issues on August 7, 2009, in an exclusive interview. The Rajapaksa Model of combating...

Why ISIS should torment Omar Abdullah?

By: RSN Singh |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 October 2014

On October 10, masked men hoisted the ISIS flag in Srinagar’s Jamia Masjid. This incident followed the Friday prayers. A similar incident had taken place on October 6, wherein some youth waved...

Gaza and the Israeli Intervention

By: Brig Deepak Sinha |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 October 2014

In recent days we have been witness to live television coverage that made us all unwilling, but nonetheless, active participants in what could only be called mass murder of innocents in that...

Indian Warships Visit - Mombasa

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 October 2014

Indian Naval Ships Mumbai, Talwar, Teg and Deepak under the Command of Rear Admiral R Hari Kumar, VSM, the Flag Officer Commanding Western Fleet, are on a two-month long Overseas Deployment to...

Al Qaeda’s India Threat

By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch |Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 15 October 2014

Immediately post Ayman al-Zawahiri announcing establishment of an India Wing of Al Qaeda, prompt came a US media report quoting US counter-terrorism expert Bergen that there is no evidence of Al...

India's Strategic Missiles

By: Arun S Vishwakarma |Issue: Vol 22.1 Jan - Mar 2007 | Date: 15 October 2014

The Agni series of strategic missiles were developed as part of Integrated Guided Missile Programme (IGDMP). The IGDMP was launched in 1983 to achieve self-sufficiency in missile capability, with...

Nuclear Non-Proliferation in Iran

By: Anant Mishra |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 October 2014

With the advent of the Cold War, states’ possession of nuclear weapons and the capacity of these weapons to inflict catastrophic damage on enemies became a primary concern for the maintenance...

Pakistan was designed for proxy war

By: RSN Singh |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 October 2014

…Jawaharlal Nehru had referred to a pamphlet written by the former Chief of General Staff of Pakistani Army in his address to the Cabinet’s Defence Committee meeting on the issue of the...

Ceasefire Violations: Cut the Melodrama Please

By: Dr Simrit Kahlon |Issue: Courtesy: www.defenceinfo.com | Date: 13 October 2014

Within a day of the much touted lull in ceasefire violations, Pakistan has stuck again; this has put paid to the hype created by the Indian media about the Pakistan army retracting, tail between...

Making up Asymmetric Deficit vis-à-vis China

By: Special Correspondent |Issue: Vol. 29.3 Jul-Sep 2014 | Date: 13 October 2014

China’s surging economic power has been matched by increasing military might including investments in an aircraft carrier, anti-ship ballistic missiles, satellites, modern weapon systems and...

Ceasefire Violations: Has the time come to call the Pakistan’s bluff

By: Danvir Singh |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 October 2014

Heavy firing by Pakistani troops from across the International Border in RS Pura sector in Jammu region began on the night of Oct 5th. Since then it has been “continuing intermittently” as I...

Tibet: why is China so nervous?

By: Claude Arpi |Issue: Courtesy: http://claudearpi.blogspot.in/ | Date: 09 October 2014

China is slowly but surely tightening its grip on Tibet. The latest sign is the ‘upgradation’ of the status of the Tibet Armed Police’s Political Commissar. The Global Times yesterday announced...

Glimpses of Indian Air Force Day 2014 Parade at Air Force Station Hindan

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 October 2014

But for China!

By: RSN Singh |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 October 2014

The decade of 50s was characterized by romanticisation of communism in India. Such was the romance that many leaders of the post-Independence dispensation, most of who claimed to have made huge...

Rear Admiral Ajendra Bahadur Singh takes over as Eastern Fleet Commander

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 October 2014

Rear Admiral Atul Kumar Jain, VSM, Flag Officer Commanding Eastern Fleet, handed over the command of the Eastern Fleet to Rear Admiral Ajendra Bahadur Singh, VSM. The change of guard took place...