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Harop Loitering Munitions System for the IAF

Harop Loitering Munitions System for the IAF

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 January 2014

The Indian Air Force (IAF) is set to purchase the Harop Loitering Munitions System from the Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) with deliveries commencing next year. Capable of being launched from a...

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2014 में रक्षा की प्राथमिकताएं

2014 में रक्षा की प्राथमिकताएं

By: Bharat Verma |Issue: Courtesy: Rashtriya Sahara | Date: 06 January 2014

हमारे देश में हर चीज के साथ ही असंगत दृष्टिकोण अपनाया जाता है। हम मुकम्मल...

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Infrastructure in the IAF: A Force Multiplier

Infrastructure in the IAF: A Force Multiplier

By: Air Marshal Raghu Rajan |Issue: Vol. 28.4 Oct-Dec 2013 | Date: 04 January 2014

Due to its long gestation period, infrastructure needs advance and integrated planning amongst the three services and civil agencies to ensure that the end result is cost-effective without...

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AgustaWestland welcomes the Government of India’s Nomination of an Arbitrator

AgustaWestland welcomes the Government of India’s Nomination of an Arbitrator

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 January 2014

AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica company, confirms to have received yesterday from India’s Ministry of Defence a notification concerning the appointment of an arbitrator from its side, as...

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Slow Pace of Army Modernization

Slow Pace of Army Modernization

By: Bharat Verma |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 January 2014

Strange as it may seem, Indian genius can successfully launch multiple satellites or a spacecraft to Mars but seems hopelessly ill-equipped to develop a basic armament such as a rifle, carbine or...

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Challenges Facing Civil Aviation in India

Challenges Facing Civil Aviation in India

By: Robert S Metzger |Issue: Vol. 28.4 Oct-Dec 2013 | Date: 01 January 2014

Civil aviation in India may be taken as a study in contrasts. Despite extraordinary growth in traffic, most of India’s airlines are in a precarious condition. Despite forecasts that India will...

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Fixing the Fault Lines in 2014

Fixing the Fault Lines in 2014

By: Kanwal Sibal |Issue: Courtesy: Mail Today | Date: 30 December 2013

Our major foreign policy challenges are enduring and no dramatic change in our security environment is likely in 2014. Relations with Pakistan could actually worsen. Nawaz Sharif is focusing on...

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Military and the Media

Military and the Media

By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 December 2013

The Lucknow Literature Carnival 2013 held from 6 to 8 December for the first time had a full session on Defence Writing. It generated quite a bit of enthusiasm in the journalistic circles. What is...

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Games Nations Play: Chinese Assertiveness & America’s Re-balancing

Games Nations Play: Chinese Assertiveness & America’s Re-balancing

By: Brig Amar Cheema |Issue: Vol. 28.4 Oct-Dec 2013 | Date: 28 December 2013

Realpolitik dictates a policy of ‘congagement’ of China and explains America’s reasons for accommodating the former at the grand table. Thus, while the US-Chinese relationship is expected...

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India’s First Supersonic Jet MiG-21

India’s First Supersonic Jet MiG-21

By: Joydeep Dasgupta |Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 27 December 2013

Every one of us wants to fly high above the sky and therefore our fascination towards the sky always remains in our dreams and therefore we keep watching aircraft and feel envy of them. There...

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Terror and Violence in China

Terror and Violence in China

By: Dr Sudhir Hindwan |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 December 2013

The recent skirmishes between the Chinese security forces and the separatist Uygur Muslims in the Xinjiang province on Tuesday have once again created vulnerable ground for serious ethnic crisis...

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The Ray of Death: Directed-Energy Weapons

The Ray of Death: Directed-Energy Weapons

By: Gp Capt Joseph Noronha |Issue: Vol. 28.4 Oct-Dec 2013 | Date: 25 December 2013

Why do laser guns and other DEW devices seem so much more attractive than conventional projectile weapons such as guns and missiles? For one thing, DEWs can be precisely targeted. It is claimed of...

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Submarines: Pride of Oceanic Depths

Submarines: Pride of Oceanic Depths

By: Joydeep Dasgupta |Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 24 December 2013

Aircraft carriers and other warships are all visible platforms on sea. However, navies worldwide operate vessels that are largely unseen, which lurk undetected beneath the sea but are capable of...

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Plight of Women in the US Military

Plight of Women in the US Military

By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 December 2013

The Indian armed forces are often chided for not increasing the intake of women in the services. Many self-proclaimed activists go to the ludicrous extent of accusing the Indian military of male...

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Managing the neighbours

Managing the neighbours

By: Kanwal Sibal |Issue: Courtesy: The Telegraph | Date: 23 December 2013

India’s search for a successful neighbourhood policy continues. Sections of our society are anxious about our failure to manage our relations with neighbours properly. We tend to blame ourselves...

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Christmas message for the Soldier

Christmas message for the Soldier

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 December 2013

It’was the night before Christmas, he lived all alone, In a one bedroom house, made of plaster and stone.   I had come down the chimney, with presents to give, And to see just who, in this...

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Chinese Innovations

Chinese Innovations

By: Claude Arpi |Issue: Vol. 28.4 Oct-Dec 2013 | Date: 20 December 2013

When Steve Jobs passed away, experts debated as to why China did not produce its own Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, or Mark Zuckerberg? One contributor to Forbes explained that the emergence of such...

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US: Bullying Not Diplomacy

US: Bullying Not Diplomacy

By: Kanwal Sibal |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 December 2013

The arrest and hand-cuffing of India’s Deputy Consul General (DCG) Devyani Khobragade in New York as if she is a criminal with all the intrusive personal indignities heaped on a “felon” by...

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Border Defence Cooperation Agreement Kaput!

Border Defence Cooperation Agreement Kaput!

By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 December 2013

If the ruling coterie was looking for brownie points for the coming elections by hyping that signing of the BDCA with China had put at rest all border problems till eventual peaceful resolution,...

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Equipping Cutting Edge Infantry

Equipping Cutting Edge Infantry

By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch |Issue: Vol. 28.4 Oct-Dec 2013 | Date: 17 December 2013

Infantry modernisation has not received due importance in past decades. This must be treated as an ‘emergent’ requirement in consideration of the emerging threats from within and outside the...

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