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United Kingdom accepts first international Lockheed Martin F-35
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 July 2012
The United Kingdom accepted the first international Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II aircraft in a ceremony today with senior representatives of the U.K. Ministry of Defence and the U.S....
China’s growing assertiveness and shaping the Indian response
By: Lt Gen Kamal Davar (Retd) |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 July 2012
“Indian elites show little evidence of having thought coherently and systematically about strategy.” – George Tanham Nearly 200 years back, Napoleon had prophetically stated that “ let...
DCNS and Pipavav team up to address India’s naval needs
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 July 2012
DCNS and Pipavav have decided to establish a strategic partnership for bringing DCNS technologies, methods and skills into Pipavav, India’s first and largest integrated defence company. The...
Is Colonel Purohit guilty?
By: RSN Singh |Issue: Vol. 23.4 Oct-Dec 2008 | Date: 18 July 2012
The article was written one month prior to 26/11 and was published in Indian Defence Review issue No. 23.4 (Oct-Dec 2008) under the the title “Spare the Army“. Going by the selective and flip-flop...
Evolution of the Air-To-Air Missiles: Options for the IAF
By: Air Commodore KB Menon |Issue: Vol. 27.2 Apr-Jun 2012 | Date: 18 July 2012
Cannons once again found their way into the design of fighter planes. The problem with cannons is that they had to be fired at aerial targets from the astern quarters and any manoeuvring by the...
Red Dragon in India’s North West
By: Lt Gen Kamal Davar (Retd) |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 July 2012
Defence Secretary level talks between India and Pakistan held on 11-12 June 2012 at Islamabad for resolving the Siachen issue ended on expected lines with both nations sticking to their often...
2nd Boeing P-8I Aircraft for India Completes 1st Flight
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 July 2012
The second Boeing P-8I aircraft for the Indian Navy completed its initial flight on July 12, taking off from Renton Field at 3:29 p.m. and landing two hours and 14 minutes later at Boeing Field in...
Deliveries of key equipments for the Indian Scorpenes by DCNS
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 July 2012
SEC Industries and DCNS officially inaugurated new workshop facilities and delivered, after successful Factory Acceptance Tests, the cofferdam doors coamings for the Indian P75* Scorpene...
China: “If your sword is shorter, you should take a step forward.”
By: IDR News Network | Date: 17 July 2012
The International Herald Leader published an article advocating that China be aggressive to make up for its weak military position. The article stated that it is wrong for a weak party to avoid...
Iron Dome granted outstanding award by American Defense Manufacturers
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 July 2012
The American National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) has granted Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. an Outstanding Achievement Award for the development of “Iron Dome”. “Iron Dome” is a...
"Unwise to lift ban on Pak TV programmes," says former RAW officer
By: B Raman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 July 2012
In 1989, widespread demonstrations, some of them leading to violence, broke out in Jammu & Kashmir against the Government of India. That was the time when East Europe was in turmoil with...
A Diplomatic View of the MMRCA Deal
By: Kanwal Sibal |Issue: Vol. 26.3 July - Sept 2011 | Date: 14 July 2012
The Americans seemed to have proceeded on the assumption that with India placing orders for advanced US defence equipment such as 6 C-130J aircraft and 8 P-8I long range maritime patrol aircraft,...
India's Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP) prevents procurement
By: Lt Gen Vinay Shankar |Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 13 July 2012
“A comparison with other defense industries would be in order to draw some relevant deductions. Take China, Turkey, South Africa, South Korea, Israel and closer home even Pakistan. We began at...
Agni-I Ballistic Missile Successfully Launched
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 July 2012
India’s 700 km range ballistic missile, ‘AGNI I’ was successfully launched today from the wheeler island off the coast of Odisha. It was a textbook launch meeting all mission objectives and...
Modular design and construction of warships
By: Cdr Douglas C Deans |Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 13 July 2012
Ships are built in the shortest time when a series of specific pre-planned Modules are assembled like a Lego set. A Module is an engineered assembly of a portion of the ship Platform that...
Sri Lanka: Disturbing Questions
By: Prakash Nanda |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 July 2012
Some years ago, I was in Sri Lankan capital Colombo. On learning that my home state happens to be Odisha despite my Delhi-upbringing, all of a sudden, the general manager of the hotel where I was...
Honeytrap: Media bashing of the Army on false pretext
By: Bharat Verma |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 July 2012
On July 11, 2012 at approximately 6 pm one of the most responsible news channel in India claimed that an officer of Indian Army was caught in a honeytrap in a five-star hotel by the...
Boeing CH-147F Chinook for Canada successfully completes 1st Flight
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 July 2012
The new Boeing CH-147F Medium-to-Heavy-Lift Helicopter for Canada is progressing ahead of schedule after making its first flight on June 24. “Boeing and the Canadian Department of National Defence...
Lockheed Martin extend the Stalker UAS flight time to more than 48 hours
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 July 2012
Lockheed Martin and LaserMotive, Inc, demonstrated the capabilities of an innovative laser power system to extend the Stalker Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) flight time to more than 48 hours. This...
Boeing's P-8I aircraft for the Indian Navy began its flight test program
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 July 2012
Boeing’s first P-8I aircraft for the Indian Navy began its official flight test program July 7, taking off from Boeing Field in Seattle at 9:15 a.m. and landing three hours and 49 minutes...