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Evolution of the Indian Submarine Arm

Evolution of the Indian Submarine Arm

By: Lt Cdr Kalesh Mohanan |Issue: Vol 25.1 Jan-Mar 2010 | Date: 14 August 2013

“Of all the branches of men in the forces there is none which shows more devotion and faces grimmer perils than the submariners.”       — Sir Winston S. Churchill The development of...

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Dialogue With Pak A Trap

Dialogue With Pak A Trap

By: Kanwal Sibal |Issue: Courtesy: Mail Today | Date: 13 August 2013

Our response to the killing of five Indian soldiers last week by the Pakistanis inside our Line of Control has again shown our inability to deal effectively with the dual issue of dialoguing with...

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‘Vikrant’ Reborn in Indigenous Avtar

‘Vikrant’ Reborn in Indigenous Avtar

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 August 2013

Amidst chanting of hymns from the Atharva Veda, Vikrant, India’s first aircraft carrier, decommissioned on 31 January 1997, was reborn today as Smt Elizabeth Antony, wife of the Defence Minister...

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Prithvi-II missile hits target in a flawless user mission

Prithvi-II missile hits target in a flawless user mission

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 August 2013

A missile unit of the Strategic Forces Command (SFC) today morning successfully launched the indigenously developed surface-to-surface/ nuclear capable Prithvi II missile with a strike range of...

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Simulation and Training: The IAF Perspective

Simulation and Training: The IAF Perspective

By: Air Marshal Dhiraj Kukreja |Issue: Vol. 28.2 Apr-Jun 2013 | Date: 12 August 2013

“Simulators go a long way in ensuring that a pilot learns about systems under simulation before he actually uses these on-board an aircraft thus saving precious flying hours. Apart from...

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India's Quest for an Indigenous Aircraft Carrier

India's Quest for an Indigenous Aircraft Carrier

By: Admiral Arun Prakash (Retd.) |Issue: Vol 21.3 Jul-Sep 2006 | Date: 12 August 2013

It was indeed fortuitous for our navy that at the moment of India’s independence, those charged with planning for the nation’s embryonic maritime force included many men of vision. In 1948,...

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Strangling Self Esteem

Strangling Self Esteem

By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 August 2013

The Defence Minister’s flip flop statements and eventfully blaming the Pakistani Army for the barbaric killing of five India soldiers through a cross-border raid yet again indicates the bane...

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Killing of Indian Soldiers on LoC

Killing of Indian Soldiers on LoC

By: Lt Gen Raj Kadyan |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 August 2013

Five Indian soldiers were killed in Poonch Sector without warning or getting a chance to defend themselves. This was a sneak attack in an area covered by the ceasefire agreement signed by both...

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Boeing, US Navy Demo New Targeting and Data Systems on EA-18G

Boeing, US Navy Demo New Targeting and Data Systems on EA-18G

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 August 2013

Advanced technologies will significantly improve Growler’s targeting capabilities The U.S. Navy recently flew Boeing EA-18G Growler aircraft with sensor system upgrades and its newest data...

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Cassidian’s flexible radar sensor concept confirmed in flight tests

Cassidian’s flexible radar sensor concept confirmed in flight tests

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 August 2013

. Software-defined “SmartRadar” detects targets over land and sea with maximum resolution Easily adaptable for various manned and unmanned platforms Cassidian, the defence and security...

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Have we done enough to secure the borders?

Have we done enough to secure the borders?

By: Col (Dr) PK Vasudeva |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 August 2013

A heavily armed team of terrorists and Pakistani troops ambushed an Indian Army patrol along the Line of Control (LoC) in the Poonch sector of Jammu and Kashmir in the early hours of August 7,...

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How not to deal with Pakistan

How not to deal with Pakistan

By: Lt Gen NS Malik |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 August 2013

The dastardly act on the part of Pakistan Army on the LOC by ambushing a night patrol of 21 BIHAR and killing five soldiers is not only condemnable, but absolutely unacceptable in terms of...

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Maiden Flight of China’s Y-20 Air Freighter

Maiden Flight of China’s Y-20 Air Freighter

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 August 2013

China’s Ministry of National Defence has confirmed that the maiden flight of its first domestically developed four-engine heavy military transport aircraft designated as the Y-20, was carried...

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Conditions needed for India-Pakistan rapprochement

Conditions needed for India-Pakistan rapprochement

By: Air Marshal B D Jayal |Issue: Courtesy: US National Strategy Forum Review | Date: 08 August 2013

The act of geographically dividing a people on an untested “two nation theory,” ignoring a shared multi-cultural heritage dating back centuries, was bound to have consequences beyond anything...

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Navy’s Boeing P8I Touches Down at the Emerald Islands

Navy’s Boeing P8I Touches Down at the Emerald Islands

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 August 2013

The Boeing P8I, a Long Range Maritime Reconnaissance Anti-submarine Warfare (LRMR/ASW) aircraft of the Indian Navy, made its maiden landing at  the INS Utkrosh airfield on Tuesday, 06 Aug...

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Pakistan needs firm handling not niceties

Pakistan needs firm handling not niceties

By: Lt Gen Harwant Singh |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 August 2013

The recent killing of four soldiers and one junior commissioned officer near the LoC in the Poonch sector of J&K is yet another serious violation of peace along this line. For Pakistan army to...

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India’s options in dealing with Pakistan

India’s options in dealing with Pakistan

By: Kanwal Sibal |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 August 2013

When we consider our options, the first reality that we must accept is that we have no option but to deal with Pakistan irrespective of whether we have friendly or inimical relations with it, as...

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The time to trust Pakistan is long gone

The time to trust Pakistan is long gone

By: Dr Amarjit Singh |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 August 2013

Nawaz Sharif set media wires buzzing when he proclaimed soon after the results of Pakistan’s elections were announced last month that he aims to (a) make peace with the terrorist outfits in...

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Reading China on Sino-Indian Border Issue

Reading China on Sino-Indian Border Issue

By: Bhaskar Roy |Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 06 August 2013

The Chinese communist leadership has perfected the act of saying things and giving signals, leaving it to the other side to decipher and understand Their internal speeches and documents are...

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Airbus Military delivers first A400M to French Air Force

Airbus Military delivers first A400M to French Air Force

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 August 2013

Airbus Military has today formally delivered the first A400M new generation airlifter, which is known in French service as the A400M Atlas, to the French Air Force, a milestone marking the...

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