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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...
The Fall of Maoist Revolution
By: Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 July 2013
Having murdered the leading Congress party functionaries in Chattisgarh and celebrating that macabre act like the savages do, the Maoists have now elaborated their ‘hit list’ of politicians...
Why Henderson Brooks Report Cannot be De-classified
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 July 2013
Claude Arpi’s demand to release the Henderson Brooks report is akin to Julian Assange and Edward Snowden seeking asylum in India. Understandably, Wikileaks disclosures of black money stashed...
Border Defence Cooperation Agreement (BDCA): China's Dangerous Trap
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 July 2013
Writing in these columns on the brazen Chinese intrusions into Indian Territory, it had been brought out that China considers ‘minds of the hierarchy (political and bureaucratic)’ of the...
Army opening new route to Kedarnath Shrine
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 July 2013
On being requested by the Civil Administration and the NDRF, troops of Surya Command of the Army have now commenced work to open a new route to the Kedarnath Shrine. Uttarakhand has witnessed...
China cornered, India’s window of opportunity
By: Dr Subhash Kapila |Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 11 July 2013
China being strategically cornered globally in 2013 is a reality and this is likely to continue till such time China does not change its strategic postulations. Therefore this should have...
Combat Helicopters: The multi-role concept and future development
By: Lt Gen BS Pawar |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 July 2013
While jet fighters are in their fifth generation, helicopters are still languishing with the same old airframes for the last several decades, with mostly upgrades to their credit. The APACHE...
Hawking India
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 July 2013
As per an exclusive report in the DNA today, Indian officials claim that Chinese are making repeated intrusions into Indian Territory because of an internal tussle between the Chinese PLA and...
Political Islam’s Failure
By: Kanwal Sibal |Issue: Courtesy: Mail Today | Date: 09 July 2013
If the overthrow of President Mubarak by the mass of protestors in Tahrir Square in 2011 was a surprise, the ouster of President Morsi by even larger protests in Tahrir Square and across Egypt in...