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The third Anti Submarine Warfare (ASW) Corvette for the Indian Navy (IN) designed under Project-28 (P-28) by the Navy’s Directorate of Naval Design, being built by one of India’s leading...

Boeing, Bharat Electronics Expand Partnership in India

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 March 2013

Follow-on order to manufacture F/A-18 Super Hornet subassemblies Boeing and Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) are expanding their partnership through a follow-on contract involving the manufacture...

Is there an endgame in Afghanistan?

By: Vikram Sood |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 March 2013

The visit of U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel’s visit to Kabul had been greeted by two suicide attacks on March 9 that left 18 dead. The Taliban were obviously leaving their calling card. But...

Anti-Lanka vote was a bad idea

By: Kanwal Sibal |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 March 2013

India has ended up looking opportunistic and unprincipled, a victim of its internal political wrangling, with a government in New Delhi not fully in control of foreign policy. India has once...

China rises, India falters

By: Vikram Sood |Issue: Courtesy: MidDay Mumbai | Date: 25 March 2013

In a recent conversation with President Zardari, China’s newPresident, Xi Jinping declared that his country supported Pakistan in its efforts to maintain national sovereignty and independence...

AFSPA cannot be revoked as of now: Gen Bikram Singh

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 March 2013

Chief of Army Staff, General Bikram Singh, said that AFSPA is an enabling Act and should not be taken away at the moment. It is important to remain on guard.

Jihadis Refocusing on Kashmir

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 March 2013

Defence expert Bharat Verma says 12th March attack on the Srinagar CRPF camp is a sign that jihadi forces are now again focusing on Kashmir as they are freed from the Afghan conflict, thanks to...

Need a Muscular Indian Strategy in Afghanistan

By: Pinaki Bhattacharya |Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 19 March 2013

Even at the cost of sounding bellicose with that expressed need in the title of this paper, this writer will argue that Afghanistan stands as a shining example of the success of the country’s...

India's Network Centric Warfare Programme

By: Raveen Janu |Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 19 March 2013

If a perusal is done of the military doctrines of the major advanced powers, one aspect that has a common theme across the board is information dominance. Network centricity is the backbone...

RFID in Netcentric Warfare Logistics

By: Manoj Shergill |Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 19 March 2013

The emergence of Net Centric Warfare (NCW) in the modern day conflicts has impacted the way the combat forces are logistically supported with increasing dependence on Geographical Information...

Defence Budget far from Threat Perception

By: Col (Dr) PK Vasudeva |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 March 2013

There is an overall decrease in the defence outlay of almost all countries in the world including India except China and Pakistan. According to the Stockholm International Peace Research...

Why New Delhi wants to forget 1962?

By: Claude Arpi |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 March 2013

While the Indian National Congress is still able to remember the role of former prime ministers Lal Bahadur Shastri and Indira Gandhi in the India-Pakistan conflicts of 1965 and 1971, it has...

Could Iran be Obama's legacy?

By: Vikram Sood |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 March 2013

Various battles rage in the region from Pakistan to the Maghreb and where once civilisations flourished in the Indus Valley, in Persia, Mesopotamia and Egypt we today see intolerance and violence...

HAL- Rolls-Royce Production Facility Inaugurated

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 March 2013

International Aerospace Manufacturing Limited’s (IAMPL) production facility was formally inaugurated in Bangalore today by Mr. K. Naresh Babu, Managing Director, HAL (Bangalore Complex)....

A single person cannot subvert the defence procurement system

By: Air Marshal B D Jayal |Issue: Courtesy: The Telegraph | Date: 15 March 2013

A report by prosecutors filed in Italy in connection with the arrest of the chief executive officer of Finmeccanica, Giuseppe Orsi, has alleged that the then Indian air force chief was...

Uncomfortable questions on land-swapping with Bangladesh

By: Prakash Nanda |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 March 2013

Pakistan has done it again. In its continuing hybrid war against India(about which I have already written in this column), two terrorists belonging to Hizbul Mujahedeen, which is based in...

Boeing Ships 5th WGS Satellite to Cape Canaveral for 2013 Launch

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 March 2013

Block II series transmits airborne ISR imagery 3 times faster Boeing recently shipped its fifth Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellite, which will provide the U.S. Air Force with faster...

Countering IEDs: Training remains the Key

By: Maj Gen Dhruv C Katoch |Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 13 March 2013

On 22 February, eight persons, including six policemen, were killed in a landmine blast triggered by Maoists at Majhauliya village in Bihar’s Gaya district. This marked the first major land mine...

Impact of Information Warfare on Aerospace Operations

By: Air Marshal Raghu Rajan |Issue: Vol 26.2 Apr-Jun 2011 | Date: 13 March 2013

What is Information Warfare? : Information Warfare (IW) in its most fundamental sense is the emerging “theater” in which future nation-against-nation conflict at the strategic level is most...

Marines: An Over-anxiety to oblige the Italian Government

By: B Raman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 March 2013

An over-anxiety on the part of the Government of India to oblige the Italian Government on the issue of the two Italian Marines, who have been charged with killing two Kerala fishermen wrongly...