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Eastern Air Force 1976. A Tale Of What Not To Do The dark, ominous, thunder heads had been rising from the depths of Subansary valley all morning. The orographic winds pushed them up the slopes...

The Chinese Way

By: Prof. Priyadarshi Mukherji |Issue: Vol 20.4 Oct-Dec 2005 | Date: 09 August 2012

Just ten days before the founding of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), on 21 September 1949, in his opening address at the First Plenary Session of the Chinese People’s Political...

Defence Procurement: A procedure sans policy

By: Air Marshal BK Pandey |Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 08 August 2012

“There is an imperative need to rationalise the Defence Procurement Procedure so that it serves the purpose of a facilitator, and not an impediment to the acquisition of defence...

Boeing Demonstrates Autonomous Ship-based Capability of Unmanned Little Bird...

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 August 2012

The Boeing Unmanned Little Bird H-6U successfully performed 14 autonomous takeoffs and landings from a ship during flight tests in July, a significant milestone for a medium-size...

Modernisation of the Indian Navy - 2020

By: Admiral Madhvendra Singh |Issue: Vol 20.4 Oct-Dec 2005 | Date: 08 August 2012

“Modernisation” of a Navy is a continuous process – and each major upgradation takes time and needs to be planned well in advance. The “Great White Fleet” which circum-navigated the...

Barred by Islamic countries, Rohinya Muslims sneaking into India

By: B Raman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 August 2012

Mr.Tomas Ojea Quintana, a UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights, completed on August 4,2012, a six-day visit to Myanmar to study allegations of violations of the human rights of its ethnic...

Afghanistan: Clash of the titans

By: Vikram Sood |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 August 2012

The US-led war against Iraq in 2003 was never really about Saddam Hussein’s nuclear weapons programme or the presence of al-Qaeda in that country. It was about gaining control over Iraq’s oil....

Pakistan's offensive against the Taliban

By: Lt Gen Vijay Oberoi |Issue: Vol 24.3 Jul-Sep 2009 | Date: 03 August 2012

The Pakistan Army itself hardly fights. Instead, it directs others to do its bidding! The Pakistani generals consider the Taliban and other terrorist groups as the vanguard of the nation’s...

Elbit Systems of America showcases the Skylark

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 August 2012

Elbit Systems of America, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Elbit Systems Ltd., will showcase the Skylark® I-LE Block II’s capabilities at the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems...

Arab Spring: Is India being blackmailed?

By: Prakash Nanda |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 August 2012

As an old student of Indian foreign policy, I have always viewed “nonalignment” as a tool of pursuing India’s national interests. Nonalignment can never be a goal, which, unfortunately, many...

Boeing Completes Major Join of India's 1st C-17 Airlifter

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 August 2012

Program on schedule to deliver strategic and humanitarian capabilities Boeing in Long Beach integrated the forward, center and aft fuselages and the wing assembly of India’s first C-17...

INS Baaz commissioned as first Naval Air Station in Nicobar Islands

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 August 2012

The Naval Air Station at Campbell Bay on Great Nicobar Island, was today commissioned as Indian Naval Ship ‘Baaz’ by Admiral Nirmal Verma, Chairman Chiefs of Staff Committee and the Chief of...

1965 War:True Story of 2/Lt Baljit Singh- II

By: Colonel Baljit Singh |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 August 2012

The incidents narrated ahead are based on the experience of 2nd Lieutenant Baljit Singh, 3rd Madras Infantry Battalion, 69th Infantry Brigade, who had participated in the legendary 1965 Indo-Pak...

OP TOPAC: The Kashmir Imbroglio - II

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Vol 4.2 Jul-Dec 1989 | Date: 30 July 2012

Pakistan’s Aims and Plans – II It appears that Pakistan’s ‘Plan-X’ was prepared after a widely read fortnightly of New Delhi reporting on Exercise Brass Tacks gave brief comments on...

Power and Proficiency: Future Military Engines

By: Gp Capt Joseph Noronha |Issue: Vol. 27.2 Apr-Jun 2012 | Date: 30 July 2012

Very few companies in the world can claim to have mastered the art of producing high-performance military engines and most of them are in the United States and Europe. Russia and Europe lag behind...

OP TOPAC: The Kashmir Imbroglio - I

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Vol 4.2 Jul-Dec 1989 | Date: 29 July 2012

IDR think-tank war-gamed and published in July 1989 the anticipated course of action by Pakistan in Kashmir under the title OP TOPAC.. This came true in the subsequent years!. We reproduce this...

How does China eye India’s aircraft carrier Vikramaditya

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 July 2012

Posted July 26, 2012 by admin in China Military News. The INS Vikramaditya aircraft carrier (former Admiral Gorshkov), which Russia refurbished for India, left its berth at the Sevmash shipyard in...

Turmoil in Bodoland

By: Prakash Nanda |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 July 2012

Assam is burning as I write this. Ethnic clashes between the Bodo tribes (Hindus) and “Bengali Muslims” (most of them being immigrants) have already consumed 40 lives and resulted in...

Boeing F-15E Radar Modernization Program

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 July 2012

Boeing said the U.S. Air Force has granted the F-15E Radar Modernization Program (RMP) approval to begin Low Rate Initial Production 2 (LRIP 2) of 10 APG-82(V)1 Active Electronically Scanned Array...

Sagem and Thales create optronics joint venture, OPTROLEAD

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 July 2012

Sagem (Safran group) and Thales have announced the creation of OPTROLEAD, an equally-owned joint venture for optronics. The official signature creating the new company follows the original...