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Arudhra Medium Power Radar inducted in the IAF
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 June 2011
Air Chief Marshal PV Naik, Chief of the Air Staff today inducted the first Medium Power Radar (MPR), named Arudhra by the IAF at Air Force Station Naliya in Gujrat. At Naliya, an airbase which...
Germination of Pakistan - II
By: Anand K Verma |Issue: Book Excerpt: Reassessing Pakistan | Date: 03 June 2011
Emphasis on Muslims as a Distinct Entity Thanks to the efforts of Syed Ahmed Khan, separate electorates and the political ambitions of League leaders including Jinnah, some academic interest had...
The Navy in War-II
By: Maj Gen Sukhwant Singh |Issue: Book Excerpt: India's War since Independence | Date: 02 June 2011
After 1965 Pakistan tried to keep pace with the Indian naval program, but the stoppage of US military aid and lack of foreign exchange prevented matching progress. But three Daphne class...
Militarization of Space
By: Gp Capt Ajey Lele (Retd.) |Issue: Vol 23.2 Apr-Jul 2008 | Date: 02 June 2011
Use of ‘outer space’ (also referred as ‘space’) to fight wars is not a new idea. Rockets reaching high into the atmosphere was talked about since World War II. The investments made by the...
India's Losses and Gains in Post-Independence Wars - II
By: Maj Gen Sukhwant Singh |Issue: Book Excerpt: India's War since Independence | Date: 02 June 2011
India captured many outposts along the Punjab border in Ajnala, Amritsar, Khemkaran, Mamdot and Fazilka sectors with minimal tactical and economic advantage. On the other hand, in this very...
China's Inner Mongolia: A Jasmine Revolution with a Difference
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 June 2011
China’s Inner Mongolia, where Mongolians are in a minority of only 20 per cent of the total population of 23 million, has been going through a Jasmine type Revolution with a difference since May...
Strong presentation of the German Aerospace Industries' Association at the...
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 June 2011
Achieving a total turnover of 24.7 billion Euros and employing a direct labor force of around 95,400 in 2010, German aerospace industry does not only represent a national key industry. Moreover,...
Indra will exhibit at Paris Air Show Embarked systems on latest-generation...
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 June 2011
Indra will attend le Bourget Paris Air Show, the main event of the aeronautics sector in Europe, to be held from the 20 to the 26 of June. The company will exhibit its electronic defence and...
Germination of Pakistan - I
By: Anand K Verma |Issue: Book Excerpt: Reassessing Pakistan | Date: 02 June 2011
Entry of Islam into the Subcontinent: The embryo of Pakistan, for Mohammed Ali Jinnah, its founder, was conceived the moment the first Muslim set his foot on the subcontinent.1 That was in AD 712...
Indian Military Needs to Reorganize Itself In Theatre Commands
By: Gp Capt AS Bahal |Issue: Vol 21.2 Apr-Jun 2006 | Date: 01 June 2011
The Kargil war identified certain inadequacies in the functioning of our Higher Defence Organisation. Subsequently, the Kargil Review Committee enumerated the need for a thorough review of the...
MTC Industries and Research to Exhibit at the Paris Air Show 2011
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 June 2011
MTC a leading supplier of electro-mechanical products and services to Aerospace, Defense, UAV and Civilian Industries will make its debut appearance at the Paris Air Show in June 2011. MTC will...
Developments in Pakistan
By: Maj Gen Afsir Karim |Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 01 June 2011
The Islamic world is in turbulence for some time now; whether these movements will lead to a more liberal order or will the religious groups that are lurking beneath the surface grab power once...
Medium Power Radar Arudhra to be inducted in the IAF
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 June 2011
Towards enhancing its Air Defence capabilities, the IAF would be inducting the first Medium Power Radar on 03 Jun 2011.In the background of the South Western Air Command’s Commanders’...
Salvaging America's Botched Strategic Foray into Asia - III
By: Brig Vijai K Nair |Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 01 June 2011
The Saudi–British Nexus: “Saudi Arabia has always relied heavily on Pakistan in shaping its policy towards Afghanistan. During the jihad of the 1980s, Saudi funds and expertise were...
Salvaging America's Botched Strategic Foray into Asia - II
By: Brig Vijai K Nair |Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 31 May 2011
Islamabad has already begun to take steps to appease the Pashtuns by announcing that NWFP will henceforth be named Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.26 This is to impress upon the Pashtuns who live in NWFP...
The Chinese vision of Sino-Pak strategic partnership : III
By: Prof. Priyadarshi Mukherji |Issue: Vol 25.3 Jul-Sep 2010 | Date: 30 May 2011
Chinese Projects in PoK :On 14 October 2009, in a report titled “India objects to proposed Chinese projects in PoK”, it was stated that “the Chinese President Hu Jintao had also said that...
US-Pak Counter-Terrorism Cooperation: The Ritual & the Reality
By: B Raman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 May 2011
Secret commitments by both the political and military leaderships to co-operate with the US in counter-terrorism, ritual denial of such commitments in public statements, dragging the feet in the...
Saab 2000 MPA for Indian Medium Range Maritime Reconnaissance
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 May 2011
The Saab 2000 multi-role Maritime Patrol Aircraft equipped with the fifth generation AESA and RBS-15 Anti-Ship missiles is being offered to the Indian Navy to meet the growing challenges in...
Salvaging America's Botched Strategic Foray into Asia - I
By: Brig Vijai K Nair |Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 30 May 2011
Perception is all too often reality. Add to the Afghan debacle syndrome that 31 out of 50 U.S. states are seen as insolvent. Some local governments are readying bankruptcy proceedings. State...
Maoists are enemeies of India - II
By: RSN Singh |Issue: Vol 26.2 Apr-Jun 2011 | Date: 28 May 2011
The Ideological Factor At the lower levels, the ideological factor of Maoism is clearly missing. The foot soldiers are just instruments of violence and part of the extortion industry. The lower...