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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...

AgustaWestland is ready for full cooperation

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

With reference to the Indian Ministry of Defence’s request for information regarding the AW101 contract, received last week, AgustaWestland confirms it is responding to the notice in the spirit...

South Korea Seeking to Buy Apaches, Cobras

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

The US Defense Security Cooperation Agency has notified the Congress of a request from the Republic of Korea for a pair of helicopter fleet purchases through the Foreign Military Sales (FMS)...

US Navy awarded Contract to Northrop Grumman for Fire Scout

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

In October 2012, the US Navy awarded Northrop Grumman a $28 million contract in support of the MQ-8B Fire Scout. The agreement covers non-recurring engineering support, obsolescence efforts and...

Hydrabad Blasts

By: B Raman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 February 2013

Eleven persons are reported to have been killed and over 87 injured in two well-timed explosions in the Dilsukhnagar area of Hyderabad around 7 PM on February 21,2013. Initial reports indicated...

Boeing receives US Air Force contract for Integrated C4ISR Targeting Solution

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

Line of Sight – Short (LOS-S) provides hand-held, all-in-one targeting system Boeing will provide the U.S. Air Force with a lightweight, compact laser targeting system designed to improve the...

How to Resolve the Problem of Roles and Missions

By: Air Marshal B D Jayal |Issue: Courtesy: The Telegraph | Date: 21 February 2013

A national daily recently reported that highly classified documents pertaining to weapon system requirements and acquisition plans of all the three services along with those of surveillance...

2020: Aerospace in India

By: Dr K Kasturirangan |Issue: Vol 21.2 Apr-Jun 2006 | Date: 21 February 2013

We have something like 330 members as part of the Society for Indian Aerospace and Technologies Industries (SIATI) family and that’s a very good number and I am sure that it is going to grow in...