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Company veteran Michael Kurth will oversee Boeing’s unmanned airborne systems as of Jan. 1. Kurth, currently managing director of Boeing Defence UK Ltd. (BDUK), will relocate to St. Louis as vice...

Waging a Different Kind of War

By: Air Marshal B D Jayal |Issue: Courtesy: The Telegraph | Date: 17 December 2012

In 2009, the president of India, the supreme commander of its armed forces, created history by flying in an IAF Sukhoi combat aircraft. A gesture which, apart from being daring, communicated to...

Tank Ammunition from Russia

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Vol. 27.4 Oct-Dec 2012 | Date: 17 December 2012

The Indian Army is currently facing a critical shortage of ammunition for the Indian Army’s fleet of T-90 and T-72 tanks after the blacklisting of the supplier of the Fin Stabilized Armour...

Boeing and Embraer to Partner on KC-390

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Vol. 27.4 Oct-Dec 2012 | Date: 17 December 2012

Boeing and Embraer have entered into an agreement to collaborate on the KC-390 program, under which the companies will share some technical knowledge and evaluate markets where they may join their...

Rafale MMRCA for the IAF

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Vol. 27.4 Oct-Dec 2012 | Date: 17 December 2012

India’s hunt for the acquisition of 126 Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft (MMRCA) is coming to a close with the Ministry of Defence giving the green signal to the evaluation process that led to...

Surveillance Drones and National Security

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Vol. 27.4 Oct-Dec 2012 | Date: 17 December 2012

The increase in acquisition of unmanned aerial surveillance drones by the government is paying dividends for law enforcement authorities. Yet it is exacerbating angst over terrorist attacks from...

1971: Making Bangladesh a reality - I

By: Major K.C. Praval |Issue: Book Excerpt: Indian Army After Independence | Date: 16 December 2012

The Indian cabinet met on 28 April 1971. General Manekshaw was told to attend the meeting as he was Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee. Without much ado, he was told to take charge of the...

Military Application of Unmanned Rotary Wing Aircraft

By: Gp Capt AK Sachdev |Issue: Vol. 27.4 Oct-Dec 2012 | Date: 14 December 2012

The term Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is being slowly replaced by UAS as in many of its variegated missions, the aircraft is not carrying any payload from one place to another and is thus not a...

Boeing Demos Unmanned Little Bird for Republic of Korea Army

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 December 2012

Affordable pilotless technology could expand ROKA MD 500 helicopters’ mission capabilities Boeing demonstrated affordable unmanned aircraft technology that could be integrated onto Republic of...

Cyber Warfare: The New Threat

By: Air Vice Marshal AK Tiwary |Issue: Vol. 26.4 Oct-Dec 2011 | Date: 14 December 2012

The cyber warriors will identify own networks weakness which will be followed up by regular patch up of vulnerabilities. In addition their actual target could include blowing up electric...

Indigenous Warship Building

By: Lt Cdr Kalesh Mohanan |Issue: Vol. 27.2 Apr-Jun 2012 | Date: 14 December 2012

A major objective of the 1969 – 1974 Defence Plan was self reliance in the field of warship design and warship production. The aim was to meet the Navy’s requirements through indigenous efforts...

NORTHROP: Achieving Partnership and Growth

By: Commodore G Sharma |Issue: Vol 26.1 Jan-Mar 2011 | Date: 14 December 2012

When Leroy Grumman founded the Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation on Long Island, New York, in 1929, little did he realize that the company would still be going strong more than 80 years...

Boeing Appoints Pratyush Kumar to Lead Boeing Business in India

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 December 2012

Boeing named Pratyush “Prat” Kumar as president of Boeing India, effective December 14. He joins Boeing with significant business leadership experience and insight into the Indian market,...

Insensitive timing of Rehman Malik's visit

By: B Raman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 December 2012

If NaMo, the Chief Minister of Gujarat, had been well-advised, instead of raising the issue of Sir Creek, he would have raised the insensitive timing of the official visit of Mr. Rehman Malik, the...

ABG Shipyard bags Rs. 485 crore order from the Ministry of Defence

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 December 2012

ABG Shipyard Limited, country’s largest private ship building company has bagged a repeat order from the Ministry of Defence for building an additional cadet training vessel for the Indian Navy....

Boeing's Reusable, Unmanned X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle Begins 2nd Flight

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 December 2012

Affordable, responsive vehicle delivers unprecedented capability to US Air Force Boeing today successfully returned an unmanned U.S. Air Force X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle to orbit, continuing to...

Israel Weapon Industries will market the TAVOR SAR and UZI PRO Pistol...

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 December 2012

Israel Weapon Industries (IWI) – a leader in the production of combat-proven small arms for governments, armies, and law enforcement agencies around the world – launches operations of its US...

China’s Space Programme & Its Implications for India

By: Air Marshal BK Pandey |Issue: Vol. 27.4 Oct-Dec 2012 | Date: 12 December 2012

China has already sent eight astronauts into space on four manned missions. Budgetary constraints and technology denial regimes have been cited as the primary causes of tardy progress in India....

Military and the CAG audit reports

By: Lt Gen Harwant Singh |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 December 2012

Military expenditure is subject to audit, similar to that of any other government department. Such checks are essential to guard against wasteful expenditure. CAG has generally done a good job...

Chinese military official meets Maldives defence minister

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 December 2012

BEIJING, Dec. 11 (Xinhua) — Xu Qiliang, vice chairman of the Central Military Commission of Communist Party of China (CPC), met with Mohamed Nazim, the Maldives’ minister of defence and national...