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Pratt & Whitney Ships Initial PurePower Engines To Airbus

Pratt & Whitney Ships Initial PurePower Engines To Airbus

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 May 2014

Pratt & Whitney has delivered its first ship set of PurePower® PW1100G-JM engines on schedule to Airbus for its A320neo aircraft family. The PurePower engines were assembled and tested at the...

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Nexter purchases lightweight composite armour from TenCate Advanced Armour

Nexter purchases lightweight composite armour from TenCate Advanced Armour

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 May 2014

Yesterday the French Ambassador in Denmark, François Zimeray, has visited TenCate Advanced Armour’s facilities in Vissenbjerg, following a significant order from Nexter Systems. TenCate, a...

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Cooperation between Air Forces of Japan and India

Cooperation between Air Forces of Japan and India

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 May 2014

During Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s recent visit to India, both countries agreed to boost security ties in the face of China’s growing assertiveness. This move is significant...

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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for India

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for India

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 May 2014

With the Indian Cabinet Committee on Security clearing a deal for 15 additional IAI-Malat Heron-I Medium-Altitude Long-Endurance Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), the MoD is likely to sign a contract...

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Air Defence Missiles from MBDA for the IAF

Air Defence Missiles from MBDA for the IAF

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 May 2014

The IAF is close to inking a deal with European missile company MBDA for 384 ASRAAM imaging infrared homing Air-to-Air Missile as the new close combat missile for the Jaguar replacing the now...

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Foreign ties will blossom under the new Modi government

Foreign ties will blossom under the new Modi government

By: Kanwal Sibal |Issue: Courtesy: Mail Today | Date: 20 May 2014

The BJP’s massive electoral victory brings us foreign policy gains. The prospect of a strong and stable government in India makes our external image more positive. Modi’s personality gives us...

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Rebalancing the Strategic Affairs Post 16 May 2014

Rebalancing the Strategic Affairs Post 16 May 2014

By: Danvir Singh |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 May 2014

Narendra Modi has won a landslide victory in the general elections of 2014. The political pundits call it a titanic shift in Indian politics. The verdict of May 16, 2014 is overwhelmingly in...

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Demographic Fault Lines in Assam

Demographic Fault Lines in Assam

By: Ashwani Gupta |Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 19 May 2014

The ethnic killings in the first week of May 2014 once again exposed the demographic fault lines in Assam. 45 persons lost their lives in violence perpetrated by suspected insurgents of National...

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Why China and Pakistan want demilitarization of Siachen

Why China and Pakistan want demilitarization of Siachen

By: Karan Kharb |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 May 2014

Siachen and Sir Creek are back on the menu again. The Track II diplomacy to bring about a rapprochement between India and Pakistan is interesting in many ways. Official bilateral conclaves having...

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Chief of Defence Staff: A Debilitating Dilemma

Chief of Defence Staff: A Debilitating Dilemma

By: Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee |Issue: Vol. 29.1 Jan-Mar 2014 | Date: 18 May 2014

It will take years to streamline the archaic system of higher defence management in India. Meanwhile, trapped in the complexities of the geo-political adversities, India’s compulsion of...

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Leveraging India-China Strategic Partnership

Leveraging India-China Strategic Partnership

By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 May 2014

Scientists have predicted that global weather would undergo 80 percent change due to El Nino. The effect is already visible through not only changed patterns of rain, heat and cold but the ice...

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Indian Armed Forces: Challenges for Modi

Indian Armed Forces: Challenges for Modi

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

MODI, MOODI, MOOODI, is not one of the chants by the crowd which we all have heard in India during past six to eight months during the course of political campaign of 2014. This euphoria was not...

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Silent Subterfuge – LoC to Border?

Silent Subterfuge – LoC to Border?

By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 May 2014

Media reports quote the Special Representative of the Prime Minister on Pakistan saying that India and Pakistan should ensure the LoC is like border. The Special Representative was reportedly...

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Designing A Modern Dockyard

Designing A Modern Dockyard

By: Cdr Douglas C Deans |Issue: Vol. 29.1 Jan-Mar 2014 | Date: 14 May 2014

Dockyards have often grown from older historical bases by “Alteration and Additions” during spikes of modernisation and expansion dictated by evolving rivalries between maritime nations. As...

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Spy vs Spy: When R&AW lost

Spy vs Spy: When R&AW lost

By: B Raman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 May 2014

A spook spends his working life in a cloistered world—protecting himself, his relatives, his feelings and his joys and sorrows from unwanted curiosity. The special bonds that one develops in this...

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Non Implementation of One Rank One Pension

Non Implementation of One Rank One Pension

By: Maj Gen Satbir Singh |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 May 2014

The UPA Govt announced the grant of One Rank One Pension (OROP) to all defence personnel with lot of fan fare and earned lot of gratitude and accolades from the defence fraternity.  During the...

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Election Commission and Defence Services voters

Election Commission and Defence Services voters

By: Lt Gen Harwant Singh |Issue: Courtesy: HT (Chd edition) | Date: 12 May 2014

Just and fair elections are the very bed rock of democracy, where no group or groups of people are disadvantaged in any manner or denied this basic right, by subterfuge or through coercion or any...

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Pakistan: The Art of Lying

Pakistan: The Art of Lying

By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 May 2014

John F Kennedy had said, “No matter how big the lie; repeat it often and the masses will regard it as truth”. However, wisdom speaks that quotes more often are like guidelines that cannot be...

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BrahMos Supersonic Cruise Missile : Cementing Deterrence

BrahMos Supersonic Cruise Missile : Cementing Deterrence

By: Dr Monika Chansoria |Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 10 May 2014

With the Indian Army successfully test firing an advanced version of the 290 km-range supersonic cruise missile BrahMos in April 2014, India has displayed its continuing advancement towards...

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Northeast: the Role of Narcotics and Arms Trafficking

Northeast: the Role of Narcotics and Arms Trafficking

By: Brig (Dr) SP Sinha |Issue: Book Excerpt: Lost Opportunities | Date: 10 May 2014

The illegal narcotics trade is one of the major reasons for the continuance of insurgencies in the North-east. The consequences of trafficking in narcotics are many; for one, it is a major source...

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