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Engineering Terror
By: Prakash Nanda |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 September 2013
Abdul Karim Tunda Two dreaded Indian terrorists – Abdul Karim Tunda and Yasin Bhatkal – have been apprehended recently near Indo-Nepal border. Both of them had developed significant Pakistani...
AgustaWestland AW609 TiltRotor Aerodynamic Improvements Set To Boost Performance
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 September 2013
AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica company, is flight testing a number of aerodynamic improvements that will boost the performance of the AW609 TiltRotor. On the 25th July 2013 AgustaWestland...
US Air Force, Boeing Finalize KC-46A Tanker Aircraft Design
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 September 2013
The U.S. Air Force and Boeing have validated the final design elements of the KC-46A Tanker and concluded that the proposed design embodies and can meet Air Force requirements, clearing the way...
Weststar Aviation Services adds to fleet with latest AW139 acceptance
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 September 2013
AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica company, announced that Weststar Aviation Services of Malaysia has taken delivery of an additional AW139, bringing the total delivered of the typeto 18in support of...
Boeing to Build 56 Additional A-10 Wings for US Air Force
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 September 2013
Boeing will continue improving U.S. Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II mission readiness, and decreasing maintenance costs, through a follow-on order for 56 replacement wings for that aircraft. Boeing...
Rheinmetall wins multi-million euro contract for mortar ammunition
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 September 2013
Rheinmetall AG of Düsseldorf has booked a major order for mortar ammunition. A customer in the Middle East/ North Africa (MENA) region has contracted with Rheinmetall Denel Munition of South...
National Security: Can the nation expect PM to stop swimming in slush?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 September 2013
In one crisp interview to Spiegel, Jayati Ghosh has disrobed the government in deflecting blame on “foreign factors” for the economic slush that they have landed this country into. Both the...
China-US- North Korea: The Dynamics of a Strategic Triangle
By: Ashok Kapur |Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 31 August 2013
China has developed a double policy in relation to North Korea. Its primary interest was and remains to maintain North Korea as a strategic buffer against the extension of American commercial,...
Time Critical Targeting: UAVs
By: Air Vice Marshal AK Tiwary |Issue: Vol. 28.2 Apr-Jun 2013 | Date: 30 August 2013
The obvious advantage of stand-alone UAVs for TCT is the shortened sensor-to-shooter timeline since no dissemination of information is required from sensor to shooter. In optimum conditions, it is...
Kamov and Sagem team up on Ka-52 Alligator attack helicopter
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 August 2013
Sagem (Safran) and Kamov (Russian Helicopters) have combined their complementary areas of technological and industrial expertise to develop an enhanced version of the Kamov-52 Alligator attack...
Unconventional Warfare – Whose Baby?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 August 2013
David Maxwell’s recent article ‘Unconventional Warfare Does Not Belong to Special Forces’ in warontherocks.com makes interesting reading. English is a West German language that originated...
India lost in Afghan endgame
By: Kanwal Sibal |Issue: Courtesy: Mail Today | Date: 27 August 2013
The situation in Afghanistan is full of uncertainties and the prospects of India’s neighbourhood becoming even more difficult for us are real. We have little control over the situation in...
Why should our soldiers ‘be nice’ to Pakistanis asks a Common Man
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 August 2013
While reading an article (http://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/Pakistan/Decoding-Indo-Pak-ties-It-s-talks-versus-fights/Article1-1105336.aspx?hts0021) in the Hindustan Times which advocated...
Insight into Myanmar
By: Shubhodeep Chattopadhyay |Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 26 August 2013
Ethnic minorities constitute almost one-third of the total population; the minority communities are located mainly in seven states, and these are named after these communities. The following...
The Chinese Game Plan
By: Bharat Verma |Issue: Vol. 28.3 Jul-Sep 2013 | Date: 26 August 2013
With the opening of two fronts against New Delhi, Beijing will, in collusion with Islamabad, repeat ‘1962’ in the near future on an enlarged scale. The ‘peace’ witnessed in Kashmir for...
Maoists: Crimson Tide
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch |Issue: Vol. 28.2 Apr-Jun 2013 | Date: 24 August 2013
With adequate potential for civil war aimed at Balkanizing India, the Maoist insurgency requires total national focus and synergy, according equal importance to politico-social-economic issues in...
Coherence and Resolve in Foreign Policy
By: Maj Gen Pushpendra Singh |Issue: Vol. 28.2 Apr-Jun 2013 | Date: 23 August 2013
In the recent LoC incident, many TV channels indulged in competitive hysteria and opposition too went overboard demanding ten heads for one! This contrasts glaringly with the mature support the...
Reactivation of the Kashmir Frontiers
By: Brig Amar Cheema |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 August 2013
The Line of Control (LC) that marks the de-facto Indo-Pak border in the disputed state of J&K is witnessing the familiar sequence of infiltration, reverberating gunfire and mindless violence which...
IAF C 130J-30 makes an historic landing at Daulat Beg Oldie (DBO)
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 August 2013
In a significant capability demonstration move by the IAF, a C 130J-30 Super Hercules aircraft landed at Daulat Beg Oldie (DBO), the highest airstrip in the world at 0654 hrs today. The Commanding...
Indian Navy: How Much Blue Water!
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 August 2013
The launch of Vikrant, the indigenous aircraft carrier, and first of the Arihant class of indigenous nuclear powered submarines have been great leaps in capacity building for a blue water...