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Upgraded MH-60S for US Navy at NAS North Island
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 November 2013
CAE USA announced that the United States Navy has declared an updated MH-60S ‘Sierra’ Operational Flight Trainer (OFT) as ready-for-training at Naval Air Station (NAS) North Island near San...
$8 Billion Chopper Tender for Indian Navy
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 November 2013
In view of its expanding fleet size and expansion in its area of responsibility with the Government stating that the country’s strategic interest ranges from the Gulf of Aden to the...
Lockheed’s JASSM Completes Successful Flight Testing
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 November 2013
The flight testing of Lockheed Martin’s Joint Air-to-Surface Stand-off Missile (JASSM) Extended Range for the US Air Force Initial Operational Test and Evaluation (IOT&E) has been...
China: Some Questions
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 November 2013
The fact that the media is government paid and government controlled in Peoples Republic of China (PRC) is no secret. It is convenient since then the population, particularly the youth can be fed...
Rebuff the blackmail over Sri Lanka
By: Prakash Nanda |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 November 2013
By the time these lines are read by the readers, one hopes that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh would have taken a clear and firm decision to attend the Commonwealth summit at Sri Lankan capital...
Decoding the Dragon’s Game Plan
By: Maj Gen Pushpendra Singh |Issue: Vol. 28.3 Jul-Sep 2013 | Date: 07 November 2013
Over the past decades, we have constantly tried to mollify the Dragon. In the bargain, we have been inveigled into surrendering our bargaining chips one by one. Therefore, we should now strive to...
First Rafale deliveries to India by 2016
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 November 2013
French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian was quoted by the financial daily ‘Les Echos’ that France expects to make its first deliveries of Rafale to India by 2016 or 2017. The paper stated...
MQ-8C, the Rotary Wing UAV of the Future?
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 November 2013
Earlier this month, at the Navy League’s Sea-Air-Space exposition at National Harbor, Md., a full scale mock-up of Northrop Grumman’s MQ-8C, the unmanned platform that is to succeed the MQ-8B,...
Third-Generation Tilt-rotor V-280 by Bell
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 November 2013
At the annual US Army Aviation symposium, Quad-A, Bell’s V-280 Valor third generation tilt-rotor helicopter was unveiled by John Garrison, President and CEO, Bell Helicopter. The V-280 is...
US Army - UAH to Collaborate on Developing Next-Gen UAS
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 November 2013
The US Army’s Unmanned Aircraft Systems Project Management Office (PM UAS) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) to promote the development...
USAF to Launch $555 Million Unmanned Modernization Project
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 November 2013
Northrop Grumman has been awarded a $555.6 million contract to modernize the USAF’s fleet of Global Hawk Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). The Department of Defense (DoD) stated that the...
Researchers Unveil Thought-Controlled Drone
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 November 2013
Researchers at the University of Minnesota have revealed a drone that can be controlled merely by thought. Published in the Journal of Neuro Engineering, the project has implications in everything...
Successor to the Blackhawk?
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 November 2013
Looking to purchase its next high-speed helicopter, the US Army has recently chosen the JMR MPS design put forth by AVX Aircraft Company, for its Joint Multi-Role Technology Demonstrator (JMR-TD)...
US Navy’s First F-35C Delivered by Lockheed Martin
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 November 2013
Lockheed Martin has also delivered the first CF-6, the Lockheed Martin F-35C Lightning II Navy Carrier Variant (CV) aircraft at Strike Fighter Squadron 101 at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. The CF-6...
Payback Time Pakistan
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 November 2013
Following the US drone strike killing Pakistan Taliban Chief Hakimillah Mehsud, it was hilarious to watch the somber faced Interior Minister of Pakistan accusing the US of scuttling efforts...
China's Asian Age Depends on Spliting India?
By: Danvir Singh |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 November 2013
Zhan Lue, in his article published by the China International Institute for Strategic Studies on 8 August 2009 titled “If China takes a little action, the so called Great Indian Federation can...
The Chinese Incursion: Need to Introspect
By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa |Issue: Vol. 28.2 Apr-Jun 2013 | Date: 04 November 2013
Robert Kaplan in his book “The Revenge of Geography” suggests that, “India’s rivalry with China is not like the one with Pakistan: it is more abstract, less emotional, and (far more...
Teeth to Tail Ratio: Looking beyond the Obvious
By: Maj Gen Dhruv C Katoch |Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 03 November 2013
` For India, a country struggling to find its soul after centuries of foreign domination, the primary strategic objective would of necessity, remain the human development of its people. While...
India- China: BDCA Unexplained
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 November 2013
Following the signing of the BDCA between India and China, much has been written. The follow up official explanation extols great strides having been made by introducing the four ‘concepts’...
US-India Defence Trade: Sizing up the competition
By: Col Woolf P Gross |Issue: Vol. 27.2 Apr-Jun 2012 | Date: 30 October 2013
American defence suppliers realise that India is perhaps the largest potential market open to them in the world today. But so do all the competition. This is not a market in which to make a quick...