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The defence shipyards have not as yet come up to Navy’s expectations, particularly in respect of productivity standards. Time and cost overruns have become a perpetual problem. Some of these...

Nuclear Deal versus Nuclear Capability

By: Lt Gen Vinay Shankar |Issue: Vol 22.1 Jan - Mar 2007 | Date: 16 September 2012

The proclaimed benefits of the Indo-US nuclear deal are unexceptionable. Firstly, we would become eligible to receive nuclear fuel from the Nuclear Suppliers Group. This would enable us to build...

US-Pakistan: The Drone Attacks

By: Ramtanu Maitra |Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 16 September 2012

Since 2004, the United States has made hundreds of attacks on targets in northwest Pakistan using drones (unmanned aerial vehicles) controlled by the CIA’s Special Activities Division. Some...

US-India Defence Cooperation towards an Enduring Relationship

By: Robert S Metzger |Issue: Vol. 27.2 Apr-Jun 2012 | Date: 14 September 2012

Patience and persistence are required for businesses to succeed in the Indian market. The same is true as to the bilateral security relationship, between the US and India. Taking the longer view,...

Potential Hawk order to expand India footprint

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

BAE Systems has received a Request for Proposal (RFP) from Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) for a potential order to supply products and services for the manufacture of 20 Hawk Advanced Jet...

Radio Telescope Opens Eye on Universe

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Vol 27.3 Jul-Sep 2012 | Date: 14 September 2012

One of the world’s largest ground-based astronomical projects is being installed 16,597 feet above sea level in Chile’s Atacama Desert, which will help scientists to study the origins of the...

US Air Force against China, North Korea

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Vol 27.3 Jul-Sep 2012 | Date: 14 September 2012

According to a study by the Washington-based think-tank American Enterprise Institute, the US Air Force (USAF) does not have enough stealth aircraft to launch a powerful first wave strike and wage...

Virus Prone Communication Software

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Vol 27.3 Jul-Sep 2012 | Date: 14 September 2012

The Army’s sensitive Command and Information Decision Support System (CIDSS), which is employed during war-time operations, has been found to be vulnerable to virus attack and potential hackers....

UAVs in the Chinese Navy

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Vol 27.3 Jul-Sep 2012 | Date: 14 September 2012

The People’s Liberation Army Navy of China has begun deploying Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) aboard its ships. China has been interested in developing UAVs since the 1960s when it shot down a...

Bows, Arrows and Nuclear Weapons

By: Gp Capt Ajey Lele (Retd.) |Issue: Vol 24.4 Oct-Dec 2009 | Date: 14 September 2012

Just few years before India got its independence an unhealthy collision took place between the worlds of physics and politics. In 1945 the Americans nuked Japan. Since then in some parts of the...

Line of Actual Control or Contention?

By: Bhashyam Kasturi |Issue: Vol 24.4 Oct-Dec 2009 | Date: 14 September 2012

India has three important lessons to learn from the recent war hysteria created in the media about Chinese incursions across the Line of Actual Control at several points. These reported incidents...

Reflection on Conflict Duration

By: Ali Ahmed |Issue: Vol 24.3 Jul-Sep 2009 | Date: 14 September 2012

The new Indian Army doctrine dilating on the nature of future wars reads: ‘Emerging at short notice, being of short duration and being fought at high tempo and intensity.’ These are valid...

Arab Spring: A Mirage

By: Nilofar Suhrawardy |Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 14 September 2012

The so-called Arab Spring is proving to be a strong litmus test for diplomacy and democracy at several levels, bilateral, regional, multinational, economic and that which bears features of...

MBDA successfully tests 40 KW high-energy laser demonstrator

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

MBDA Germany has achieved a power of 40 kW using its high-energy laser demonstrator during a laser firing campaign. The laser power generated by patented beam coupling of fibre lasers was...

China's Emerging Cyberwar Doctrine

By: Brig. Gurmeet Kanwal |Issue: Vol 24.2 Apr-Jun 2009 | Date: 13 September 2012

“Chinese cyber spies hack Indian embassy in US,” screamed a bold headline splashed across the front page of a leading national daily on March 30, 2009.1 Based on a research brief issued by the...

China’s Maritime Thrust in Africa

By: Dr Rajasimman Sundaram |Issue: Vol 24.2 Apr-Jun 2009 | Date: 13 September 2012

Call it China’s new military diplomacy or birth traits of its emerging naval strategy, a Chinese naval fleet arrived in the Gulf of Aden off Somalia on 6 January, 2009 to carry out the first...

The Poonch Fiasco: A time To Ponder

By: Rohit Singh |Issue: Vol 24.1 Jan-Mar 2009 | Date: 13 September 2012

26/11. The terrorists held sway and centrestage for four days as they basked in an electronic media blitzkreig. Another day, another time, this time in Poonch, the terrorists took on the might of...

Granting Pak the Upper Hand

By: Kanwal Sibal |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 September 2012

Another round of the India-Pakistan dialogue has been completed with External Affairs Minister Krishna’s visit to Islamabad on September 8. The agreement on relaxing the visa regime and holding...

China’s world view-II: What India needs to know

By: Shyam Saran |Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 12 September 2012

The Chinese were taken completely by surprise as perhaps were our own political leaders. The then External Affairs Minister, Mr ND Tiwari was transiting Beijing on his way back from Pyong Yang...

Defexpo 2012: India on a Growth Trajectory in Defence Industry

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Vol 27.3 Jul-Sep 2012 | Date: 12 September 2012

Estimates are that India will continue to be a huge arms market and over the next decade, the government is likely to spend $250 billion to procure weapons and systems. Of the total estimate, $20...