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Much has been achieved during Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s current visit to India and much has not. In reiterating a clear intention to strengthen bilateral ties, the visit has been a...

Network Centric Warfare

By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch |Issue: Vol. 28.4 Oct-Dec 2013 | Date: 27 January 2014

No matter the advancements in robotics, the importance of the ‘man behind the machine’ will remain relevant. This is equally applicable to Network Centric Warfare (NCW). The success of NCW...

It is cherry blossom time in India-Japan relations

By: Kanwal Sibal |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 January 2014

Politically speaking, it is cherry blossom time in India-Japan relations. For the first time in history, the Emperor and Empress of Japan visited India December last. That visit had great symbolic...

North East in Turmoil

By: Dr Sudhir Hindwan | Date: 24 January 2014

The National Democratic Front of Bodoland has resurfaced with gusto in the North East. On Saturday the separatists (NDFB) massacred two persons and left more than four injured. Earlier on Friday...

Misinterpretation of Religion and Rise of Terrorism

By: Dr Sudhir Hindwan |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 January 2014

Condemnation should ring out loud and clear against the recent reign of Islamic terror spread by Boko Haram in Nigeria that killed 40 innocent school students and left over 18 wounded. This is not...

Nation's Security Overlooked for Individual Gains!

By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 January 2014

It is amazing how issues of national security are given the short shrift in India. Whether it is by design or inadvertent can continue to be guessed. That there is political interference is...

Evolution of Ground-Based Air Defence Weapons

By: Air Marshal Narayan Menon |Issue: Vol. 28.4 Oct-Dec 2013 | Date: 18 January 2014

In the not too distant past, the world’s most powerful military of the US was poised to mount a short duration campaign to punish Syria for allegedly crossing some undefined ‘red line’ of...

Indian Army: A national asset

By: Col Jaibans Singh |Issue: Courtesy: www.defenceinfo.com | Date: 15 January 2014

The Indian nation celebrates Army day on January, 15 every year with great fervor. January, 15 has been chosen for this event due to its historical significance. It was on this day in 1949 that...

Abe’s visit will bolster security ties

By: Kanwal Sibal |Issue: Courtesy: Mail Today | Date: 14 January 2014

Japan’s Prime Minister Abe will be the chief guest at our next Republic Day, a decision that marks India’s reciprocal interest in deepening bilateral political and economic ties. Until now the...

Update on INS Vikramaditya

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 January 2014

Towards the end of September 2013, one of the latest acquisitions of the Indian Navy, the refurbished but state-of-the-art aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya, completed sea trials in the Barents...

Competition to Develop Navy’s First UCLASS Aircraft

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 January 2014

With the aim to develop a carrier-based Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) for its Unmanned Carrier Launched Airborne Surveillance and Strike (UCLASS) program, the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR)...

Unmanned Helicopter MQ-8C Completes Ground Test

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 January 2014

The MQ-8C Fire Scout, the US Navy’s first unmanned helicopter designed and developed by Northrop Grumman, completed the ground test phase at a Naval Base in California. The tests included engine...

India’s Growing Market

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 January 2014

Atlas Elektronik, a leading German naval defence firm that had in the 1980s supplied SUT torpedoes for Indian Navy’s Shishumar Class submarines, has in the recent past, established its...

Assisting Afghanistan Militarily

By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch |Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 11 January 2014

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Hamid Karzai discussed the US-Afghanistan Bilateral Security Arrangement (BSA) when they met in New Delhi last month. The US withdrawal from Afghanistan...

Islamic Terror and American Dualism

By: Prakash Nanda |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 January 2014

The other day I went to the New Delhi-based Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, with which I am associated in some way, to hear Professor Stephen P Cohen, the leading American expert on the...

Welcome on board: Airbus Helicopters takes off!

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

The rebranding of Eurocopter as Airbus Helicopters, effective today, marks a new era in the history of the company, which joins Airbus and Airbus Defence & Space within the new Airbus Group –...

Time for Adopting a Life Cycle Approach to Defence Acquisitions

By: Bikramdeep Singh |Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 09 January 2014

Till very recently Indian Army has been looking at acquiring weapon systems and platforms to meet operational voids and emerging requirements to deal with known and perceived threats, without due...

Euro Hawk Sets a Record

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

The Northrop Grumman Euro Hawk Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) and Cassidian flew continuously for 25.3 hours in European airspace in August this year, setting a new record in flight endurance....

Boeing in South Korea Fighter Contest

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

Boeing emerged as the Lowest Bidder (L1) and the only one below the price limit set by the country’s arms procurement agency in response to the $7.4 billion tender floated by South Korea to...

Game Changers in the Next Decade

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

At the Association of Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) 2013 conference and trade show in Washington, the renowned analyst at market research, the Teal Group Corporation estimates...