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Planning for Modernization of the IAF Festivity during the 75th anniversary of the Indian Air Force in October 2005 was overshadowed by the concern over its depleting combat power. Obsolescence...

Big scope for India-Italy Defence Industry Cooperation: Pallam Raju

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 November 2011

The Minister of State for Defence Dr. MM Pallam Raju has said that there is tremendous potential for defence cooperation with Italy. Addressing a roundtable on ‘Indo-Italian Defence...

The Jihadi War - II

By: Col Harjeet Singh |Issue: Vol 23.2 Apr-Jul 2008 | Date: 01 November 2011

Operation Enduring Freedom Operation Enduring Freedom is the official name used by the US government for its military response to the 11 September 2001 attacks on the country. Holding the Taliban...

Cobham Partners with Carson Helicopter to Retrofit Sikorsky Aircraft with...

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 November 2011

Cobham and Carson Helicopters have announced a partnership to provide an advanced suite of avionics for Sikorsky S-61, S-76, and UH-60 derivative helicopter retrofits. The Integrated Systems...

Convergence of Terror

By: RSN Singh |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 November 2011

The insurgencies that impacted the Indian landscape till early this decade were generally in isolation. Though, they, like all insurgencies had external links, but the internal linkages between...

The Jihadi War - I

By: Col Harjeet Singh |Issue: Vol 23.2 Apr-Jul 2008 | Date: 31 October 2011

The lack of success in operation enduring Freedom in Afghanistan results from the US-led coalition’s failure to develop and implement, jointly, a coherent strategy for its conduct that...

DCNS and Thales have overcome a new hurdle for the automatic deck-landing of...

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 October 2011

DCNS and Thales today announced the launch of a supplementary phase for the Technology Demonstration of a system for automatic landing and deck-landing of UAVs (D2AD), which has just been...

Withdrawing AFSPA - A welcome move?

By: Lt Gen Harwant Singh |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 October 2011

Omar Abdullah’s decision to withdraw AFSPA from some parts of J&K should be taken as a welcome move. However it would have been far better for him to have first discussed this issue, within the...

The communication gap in Defence Procurement

By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman |Issue: Vol. 26.3 July - Sept 2011 | Date: 27 October 2011

Despite repeated assertions of the Government that the huge potential of the private sector must be tapped to achieve self sufficiency in defence production, little progress has been achieved on...

The Final Frontier

By: Gp Capt AS Bahal |Issue: Vol 20.4 Oct-Dec 2005 | Date: 27 October 2011

“Space is the final frontier that India must conquest, if it has to rightfully emerge as a leading economic and military powerhouse.” The chinese were the first to develop a rocket in...

Terrorism: The Indian Drama

By: Raunaq Rathore |Issue: Vol 22.4 Oct-Dec 2007 | Date: 25 October 2011

Hyderabad has been once again rocked by twin blasts. Innocent lives have been lost. Our national pride has been dented. Somehow, such tragedies draw a familiar and set piece response from all of...

Impact of Offset Policy on India's Military Industrial Capability - II

By: Prof (Dr) SN Misra |Issue: Vol 26.2 Apr-Jun 2011 | Date: 25 October 2011

The Highlights of Offset Contracts: Steady increase from $ 48.6M in 2007 to $519.5M in 2008, $974M in 2009 to around $ 700 M during 2010. The Aerospace sector accounts for 65% and balance by...

Impact of Offset Policy on India's Military Industrial Capability - I

By: Prof (Dr) SN Misra |Issue: Vol. 26.3 July - Sept 2011 | Date: 24 October 2011

The Indian Ministry of Defence introduced offset provisions in its Defence Procurement Procedure 2005 (DPP-2005)1 for capital acquisition schemes exceeding an estimated cost of Rs. 300 crores...

The Indian Army: The first challenge - I

By: Major K.C. Praval |Issue: Book Excerpt: Indian Army After Independence | Date: 22 October 2011

Field Marshal Wavell was no prophet. But he was unquestionably a great soldier who admired the Indian Army. Indian troops had fought under him while he was Commander-in-Chief, Middle East, during...

Limited War : A Flawed Concept

By: Lt Gen Harwant Singh |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 October 2011

It is not clear as to when the idea or perhaps the concept of a limited war was first evolved and articulated in the Indian military. May be it was the fallout from the procrastination, dithering...

Thinking the Unthinkable

By: Lt Gen Vinay Shankar |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 October 2011

While our Prime Minister plays the conjuror with war clouds and the mysteries of lightening strikes, a grave and potently disastrous possibility of an armed Indo –Pak conflict is being...

Why has Libya been attacked?

By: RSN Singh |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 October 2011

Since the exit of President Mubarak in Egypt, the geopolitical contours of the Arab world has been changing rapidly. What was touted as a revolution for democracy has now degenerated into pure...

Why India is unable to prevent terrorist attack?

By: Bharat Verma |Issue: Vol. 26.4 Oct-Dec 2011 | Date: 16 October 2011

The fact that the terrorists could target Delhi High Court twice within months with ease, displays the unprecedented helplessness of the state. Since the High Court is adjacent to the Parliament...

U.S. Needs a Bold Strategy on Pakistan

By: B Raman | Date: 16 October 2011

The indicators from reliable sources in Pakistan are that the just-concluded visit ( October 21,2011) of Mrs.Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, to Pakistan at the head of a high-power...

Islam and its many trends

By: Anand K Verma |Issue: Vol 24.1 Jan-Mar 2009 | Date: 16 October 2011

Except the war zones, palestine, Iraq and Afghanistan and the proxy war zones Kashmir and India, for quite sometime the rest of the world has not witnessed a major terrorist incident. This is...