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Empowering the Military
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 March 2013
Situations in counter insurgency environment cause their own stress on soldiers especially when politicians and officials play their dirty games. Three days after the operation, DC Kupwara...
The Malala Moment and Reforming Pakistan’s Education System
By: Pratibha Singh |Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 03 March 2013
Malala Yousufzai has emerged as an icon for countless girls in repressed societies. On 10 October 2012, she survived a brutal attack in the Swat Valley by pro-Taliban elements who perceive...
Boeing Phantom Eye Completes 2nd Flight
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 March 2013
High-Altitude, Long-Endurance demonstrator climbs above 8,000 feet Boeing’s liquid hydrogen-powered Phantom Eye unmanned airborne system completed its second flight Feb. 25, demonstrating...
MBDA wins first export order for SIMBAD-RC
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 March 2013
MBDA has signed a first contract with an export customer for the acquisition of its naval air defence system SIMBAD-RC, one year after launching its self-financed development. The first prototypes...
Cassidian delivers 100th Eurofighter to the German Air Force
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 March 2013
The Eurofighter is the most modern combat aircraft currently available worldwide German Air Force Chief of Staff Muellner: “Eurofighter is the backbone of the air forces” Seven nations use...
AgustaWestland at Heli-Expo 2013
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 March 2013
AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica company, will be displaying four of its advanced high performance helicopters on stand #2115 at Heli Expo 2013, which is being held at the Las Vegas Convention...
Air Marshal Daljit Singh takes over as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief HQ...
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 March 2013
Air Marshal Daljit Singh AVSM VM took over as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, of South Western Air Command (SWAC) Gandhi Nagar 01 Mar 13. On taking over, the Air Mshl inspected a ceremonial...
Special Forces in India
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch |Issue: Vol. 28.1 Jan-Mar 2013 | Date: 02 March 2013
Historically, Indian Special Forces have been used for direct action type of roles during conventional wars. The hierarchal understanding of trans-border employment of Special Forces in India is...
Rules of the Nuclear Club
By: Air Marshal B D Jayal |Issue: Courtesy: The Telegraph | Date: 02 March 2013
The India-United States of America cooperation in the nuclear field started in the fifties under President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Atoms for Peace programme. In the sixties, India and the US...
Rolls-Royce to Power US Navy Fleet of New Hovercraft
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 March 2013
Rolls-Royce of UK secured a contract to provide gas turbines for the US Navy’s future fleet of hovercraft. The Ship-to-Shore Connector (SSC) will replace the current naval fleet of Landing Craft...
Indian Navy Receives First Boeing P8I
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 March 2013
The Indian Navy has taken on-site delivery of the first of the Boeing P-8I Long-Range Maritime Reconnaissance and Anti-Submarine Warfare aircraft ordered in January 2009. Indian Navy pilots are...
Typhoons, Hawks from BAE Systems for Oman
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 March 2013
The Royal Air Force of Oman has agreed to a $4.1 billion purchase of 12 Typhoon and eight Hawk advanced trainer aircraft from BAE Systems. The deal calls for BAE Systems to provide in-service...
GE to Acquire Italy’s Avio
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 March 2013
GE has agreed to purchase the Italy-based aviation propulsion components manufacturer Avio S.p.A. for $4.3 billion subject to regulatory and government approval. Avio has been co-owned since 2006...
Bell Helicopter- Dynamatic Technologies Collaboration
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 March 2013
Bell Helicopter, a part of Textron Inc of the USA, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Bangalore-based Dynamatic Technologies under which the latter company will act as a...
Air Marshal SB Deo takes over as DG AIR (Ops) at Air Headquarters
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 March 2013
Air Marshal Shirish Baban Deo, AVSM VM VSM takes over as Director General Air (Operations) today at Air Headquarters (Vayu Bhavan) New Delhi. He was commissioned in the fighter stream on 15 Jun 79...
The scourge of terror attacks
By: Lt Gen Raj Kadyan |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 March 2013
The multiple bomb blasts in Dilsukhnagar area of Hyderabad on 21 Feb 2013 are undoubtedly part of a continuing process. Almost 20 such blasts have occurred in various parts of the country in the...
RAW Operations in Pakistan
By: B Raman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 February 2013
‘The Hindu” of February 26, 2013, has carried an article titled “ No Solace In This Quantum of Accountability” written by Samir Saran, Vice-President, and Abhijit Iyer-Mitra, Programme...
Failing On Terror Yet Again
By: Kanwal Sibal |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 February 2013
Hyderabad is bloodied again by terrorism, exposing once more our failure to marshal the political will, the legal instruments, the organizational structure and the required technical skills and...
Chinese Nuclear Capabilities Deployed in Central China
By: Maj Gen Afsir Karim |Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 25 February 2013
By 1971, the first-known nuclear weapon was brought to Tibet and installed at Tsaidam Basin in northern Amdo (Ch: Qinghai).1 Today, the defence arsenal is believed to include 17 top-secret radar...
Whither Jointmanship in India?
By: Air Marshal Raghu Rajan |Issue: Vol. 28.1 Jan-Mar 2013 | Date: 23 February 2013
‘Jointmanship’ in the history of warfare reached its maturity in World War II, especially during Operation Overlord involving landing by the allied forces on the beaches of Normandy. The other...