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Poor Mapping by Military Survey
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 31 July 2013
Last month the military ordered a study to reorganize the Military Survey. The need to reorganize this veritable British legacy monolith was never more. There is but one intriguing element; why...
Army rescues villagers stranded due to floods in Jhansi
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 31 July 2013
On being requested by the Civil Administration in Lalitpur and Paricha, Army columns and helicopters were moved in to rescue villagers stranded due to floods in Betwa River in Jhansi region on 29...
Sukhoi Superjet 100 Expands to Japan
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 31 July 2013
On July 30th 2013 Yakutia Airlines has operated the first flight from Niigata at Japan Honshu Island to Vladivostok in the Russian Far East by Sukhoi Superjet 100. Earlier in the day, the aircraft...
Internal Challenges
By: Maj Gen Afsir Karim |Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 29 July 2013
Management of internal security has become a greater challenge with the increasing threats of domestic and foreign-sponsored terrorism and the widening ethnic, religious and political divides in...
Force Multipliers for the Indian Air Force
By: Special Correspondent |Issue: Vol. 28.2 Apr-Jun 2013 | Date: 28 July 2013
The IAF is currently embarked on a comprehensive and capital intensive modernisation plan. Over the next two decades, the combat fleet of the IAF will hopefully have 15 squadrons of Su-30MKI...
Indo-French Defence Partnership Enables Strategic Autonomy
By: Jean-Yves Le Drian |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 July 2013
It is a great pleasure and an honour for me to be able to speak before you. Five months ago, I was accompanying our President of the French Republic, Mr François Hollande, on his State visit to...
Downhill from Kargil
By: Air Marshal Narayan Menon |Issue: Vol 24.3 Jul-Sep 2009 | Date: 25 July 2013
It is only ten years since the Kargil War, and it has already faded from public memory. ‘Tiger Hill’, ‘Tololing”, “Pt 5140”, Mushkoh Valley, and Muntho Dhalo are remembered only in...
Reasoning the Indian Mujahideen
By: Danvir Singh |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 July 2013
The Indian Mujahideen (IM) has been quiet active ever since the banning of SIMI in 2001. Almost all the blasts, starting from Delhi in 2008 to Bodh Gaya recently, they have been...
Delay in Delivery of Vikramaditya
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 July 2013
As per Viktor Komardin, Deputy General Director of Russia’s state arms exporter Rosoboronexport, India is unlikely to bill Russia for the delay in the delivery of the aircraft carrier...
Super Tucano for Light Air Support Program
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 July 2013
The US Air Force has once again selected the A-29 Super Tucano turboprop single engine aircraft from Embraer for its Light Air Support program. The A-29 Super Tucano had been selected earlier on...
No Budget Cuts for Lockheed Martin
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 July 2013
The US government has sanctioned $333.7 million for Lockheed Martin Corporation as down payment to purchase components and material for the eighth batch of F-35 combat jets. The decision came...
Heron 1 – More than 15,000 flight hours in Afghanistan
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 July 2013
. Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) monitors entire northern half of Afghanistan Successful operator model between Cassidian and the Bundeswehr since 2010 German soldiers and the civilian...
AW189 Helicopters for UK Search & Rescue
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 July 2013
At a ceremony held in London on 18th July, AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica company, and Bristow Group signed a contract for 11 AW189 Search & Rescue (SAR) helicopters that will be used to deliver...
China’s ‘String of Pearls’ – Is Male Next?
By: Cmde Ranjit B Rai |Issue: Vol. 28.2 Apr-Jun 2013 | Date: 24 July 2013
Although embroiled in disputes with Japan and ASEAN over islands in the South China Sea, China has just announced a ‘Look West’ policy which includes steps to deal with India. As per...
India to become largest Boeing C-17 operator outside the US
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 July 2013
Boeing delivered the Indian Air Force’s (IAF) second C-17 Globemaster III, a month after India’s first C-17 arrived in the country and immediately began supporting IAF operations. This second...
Avoidable Tragedies
By: Air Marshal B D Jayal |Issue: Courtesy: The Telegraph | Date: 20 July 2013
It is now nearing a month since disaster struck the upper reaches of Uttarakhand, unleashing nature’s fury and shattering the lives of thousands of pilgrims and local people. The number of...
Chinese Goal: India's isolation and encirclement
By: Maj Gen Sheru Thapliyal, PhD |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 July 2013
Recorded history shows that India and China have loomed large in each other’s consciousness from well before the first millennium. As both nations became independent almost at the same time, it...
AgustaWestland Displays AW169 Mockup and Virtual Trainer
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 July 2013
AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica company, continues to lead the way in airborne law enforcement safety and innovation by showcasing the AW169 Mockup as well as the Virtual Interactive Procedure...
Four Point Musharraf Formula – Oxymoroning India?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 July 2013
Critics would scoff at the word ‘oxymoroning’ saying there is no such word. What the minister could not learn at Oxford that it was the minister’s party that had first coined the phrase...
Involve military in decision making to tackle China
By: Col (Dr) PK Vasudeva |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 July 2013
In April 2013, the Chinese troops came 19 km inside the Indian Territory in the Depsang valley in Ladakh, a desolate area 40 km southeast of Daulat Beg Oldie, a World War II airstrip which was...