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Is Nazi China emerging?
By: Rajinder Puri |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 September 2011
For years I have maintained that China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is a government within a government. I have repeatedly pointed out that the actions of the Beijing government betray...
Boeing CHAMP Missile Completes 1st Flight Test
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 September 2011
Boeing, Air Force Research Laboratory team on nonlethal microwave weapon The Boeing Company and the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory Counter-electronics High-powered Microwave Advanced...
How Pakistan's Proxy War Began - II
By: B Raman |Issue: Book Excerpts: A Terrorist State as a Frontline Ally | Date: 23 September 2011
The HUM: The Harkat-ul-Ansar (HUA) of Pakistan was started in central Punjab in Pakistan in the early 1980s by certain religious elements under the name the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (HUM) with...
Sagem to modernize navigation system on South Korea's KSS-1 submarines
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 September 2011
After a hard-fought international competition, Sagem (Safran group) was chosen by the South Korean Defense Ministry’s Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) to modernize the...
Boeing, US Army Celebrate $130 Million Investment in CH-47 Chinook...
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 September 2011
The Boeing Company and the U.S. Army celebrated the opening of the newly renovated H-47 Chinook manufacturing facility today. The event coincided with the 50th anniversary of the H-47 Chinook’s...
How Pakistan's Proxy War Began - III
By: B Raman |Issue: Book Excerpts: A Terrorist State as a Frontline Ally | Date: 22 September 2011
The Markaz and its Lashkar: The Markaz Oawa al Irshad (MOI) was founded in 1987, at the inspiration of Osama bin Laden, by Zafar Iqbal and Hafiz Mohammed Saeed of the University of Engineering...
German Army orders KMW's 31 MUNGO 2 Multi-purpose vehicles
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 September 2011
Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW), Europe´s market leader for highly protected wheeled and tracked vehicles, has received an order from the German Army for the assembly and delivery of 31 further...
IAF flying into the Future
By: Air Commodore Jasjit Singh |Issue: Vol 22.4 Oct-Dec 2007 | Date: 21 September 2011
As one of the less than half a dozen air forces of the world which have remained independent from the very birth, the Indian Air Force has rendered a yeoman service in the defence of the country...
DCNS conducts further sea trials with BPC Dixmude
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 September 2011
DCNS began new sea trials on 19 September with BPC Dixmude, the French Navy’s third Mistral-class force projection and command vessel, which was ordered by the French defence procurement agency...
F-35 Program Completes Static Structural Testing
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 September 2011
Lockheed Martin’s F-35 program has successfully completed static structural testing, achieving one of five milestones established by the Joint Program Office for 2011. Static structural testing...
Boeing forecasts strong need for Aviation Personnel in Asia Pacific
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 September 2011
Boeing forecasts the Asia Pacific region will require hundreds of thousands of new commercial airline pilots and technicians over the next 20 years to support airline fleet modernization and the...
Develop Cutting Edge Defense Industries
By: Bharat Verma |Issue: Vol 24.2 Apr-Jun 2009 | Date: 18 September 2011
< !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> To develop cutting edge defense industries, New Delhi must eschew the inherent divisive tendencies. Instead of consolidating Aero India 2009 as the foremost Asian aerospace show, we reduced its...
China: Checkmating India in Afghanistan
By: B Raman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 September 2011
China has shown interest in the construction of two railway lines—-one in Pakistan via the Gilgit-Baltistan region and the other in Afghanistan. While the railway line through Gilgit-Baltistan,...
The Af-Pak boundary is not a border
By: Lt Gen JFR Jacob |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 September 2011
There has been a heated debate on the validity and legality of Sir Henry Mortimer Durand’s line, a line some 2,640 kilometres long between former British India and Afghanistan, which now...
Reign of Terror: How safe are we?
By: Col US Rathore |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 September 2011
Post-26/11, reacting to the elaborate security arrangements near Hotel Taj, Mumbai someone exclaimed with great flourish, “Why all this? Lightning does not strike at the same place...
South China Sea: India should avoid rushing in where even US exercises caution
By: B Raman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 September 2011
China has reacted — moderately through a spokesperson of its Foreign Office and somewhat virulently through the Party-controlled “Global Times” — to reports that India has been...
MBDA Readies Fire Shadow on back of Programme Successes
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 September 2011
The Fire Shadow weapon system has successfully completed a series of demonstration trials and two more successful firings in a ground breaking rapid development programme that was launched in...
Indian Mujahideen objective, an Islamic Caliphate across South Asia, says USA
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 September 2011
The Secretary of State designated the Indian Mujahideen (IM) as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) under Section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act and as a Specially Designated...
Pakistan: A Convoluted Script
By: Wilson John |Issue: Vol 22.4 Oct-Dec 2007 | Date: 14 September 2011
When the time comes for writing an epitaph for Pakistan’s President-General Pervez Musharraf, two critical blunders committed by him in 2007 would be mentioned without fail. First would be the...
Mumbai 26/11 repeated by Taliban in Kabul
By: B Raman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 September 2011
According to an analysis by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), the Afghan Taliban and its affiliates such as the Haqqani network and Gulbuddin Heckmatyar’s Hizbe-Islami (HI) attempted...