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A fourteen year old boy, a suicide bomber in the making was captured after he failed to detonate his vest in an attack at the Sakhi Sarwar shrine in the district of Dera Ghazi Khan in Punjab...

Boeing, US Navy mark delivery of 500th Super Hornet

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 April 2011

All aircraft delivered on budget and ahead of schedule F/A-18E/F and EA-18G will operate through 2035 and beyond Boeing and the U.S. Navy celebrated a milestone delivery on April 20 in St....

China uses bloggers to announce J-20 Stealth progress

By: B Raman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 April 2011

China has once again used its bloggers—possibly belonging to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA)—to indicate to the world in general and to the US in particular that it successfully carried out...

'Pak army wants Imran as next PM'

By: Tejas Patel |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 April 2011

The man who led the 1992 World Cup winning Pakistan cricket team, Imran Khan, is the choice of the Pakistan military establishment to take over as the next prime minister of the...

Sympathy grows for LTTE internationally

By: Nidhi Bhardwaj |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 April 2011

A United Nations report leaked recently, estimates thousands of civilians were killed during the fighting between Sri Lankan forces and the LTTE – known as the Tamil Tigers in 2009. The...

Was INSAT-4B victim of malicious malware Stuxnet?

By: Tejas Patel |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 April 2011

The Ministry of Communications & Information Technology recently said that all the ministries/departments of the Union and state governments are implementing a crisis management plan to counter...

An Ocean of Instability

By: Tejas Patel |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 April 2011

The recent reports of the presence of Chinese troops in the Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK) have set the alarm bells ringing in New Delhi. Despite its neutrality on the Kashmir issue, Beijing is...

ISI's Strategic Blackmail

By: Nidhi Bhardwaj |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 April 2011

Taking advantage of the political controversy in Pakistan over the Raymond Allen Davis case, the ISI has strategically capped intelligence cooperation with and operations by the CIA. Davis, a CIA...

Somali Pirates say they are at war with India

By: B Raman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 April 2011

According to the Wikipedia,Information Dissemination is a weblog covering international and United States naval affairs. It was founded in 2007 by Raymond Pritchett, who edits it under the...

1971: India's Military Plan - II

By: Maj Gen Sukhwant Singh |Issue: Book Excerpt: India's War since Independence | Date: 19 April 2011

A comparison of the relative strength of India and Pakistan worked out at a ratio of 7:4, and this did not appear to the planners as such a preponderant superiority in numbers as to go for the...

DCNS begins sea trials of first-of-class FREMM frigate Aquitaine

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 April 2011

One month early, DCNS begins the sea trials of the Aquitaine, the first ship built under the FREMM multimission frigate programme. The campaign takes place off the Brittany peninsula and is...

EADS conducts flight demonstrations of its Armed Aerial Scout 72X

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 April 2011

EADS North America is conducting flight demonstrations of its company-funded Armed Aerial Scout 72X (AAS-72X) helicopter at the Nashville International Airport this week to coincide with a...

Boeing Ready to Deliver 787 Pilot Training on Global Scale

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 April 2011

Boeing has achieved multiple qualifications for its worldwide network of 787 training campuses. The qualifications mean Boeing Flight Services has training devices that are ready to be used with...

China leads Great Game in Afghanistan

By: Tejas Patel |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 April 2011

Almost 10 years back, Taliban destroyed statues of Buddha in Afghanistan’s Bamyan province and now around 1000 workers are working hard to excavate artifacts at another Buddhist site in the...

1971: India's Military Plan-I

By: Maj Gen Sukhwant Singh |Issue: Book Excerpt: India's War since Independence | Date: 18 April 2011

On the map, Bangladesh looks like the head of a female stag with stunted horns pointing towards Siliguri, and its narrow neck is represented by the Agartala bulge. The country is landlocked on...

Airbus Military A330 MRTT for Royal Air Force visits UK for first time

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 April 2011

The Airbus Military A330 MRTT Future Strategic Tanker Aircraft (FSTA) for the Royal Air Force is today visiting the United Kingdom for the first time. The aircraft, one of two now flying...

Boeing to Promote Innovative Solutions at Army Aviation Exposition

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 April 2011

The Boeing Company will showcase a wide array of aviation, training, support and technology solutions at the 2011 Army Aviation Association of America (AAAA) Annual Professional Forum and...

MBDA demonstrates VL MICA proficiency against stand-off weapons

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 April 2011

In a scenario representing the protection of a sensitive zone against weapons launched from a secure distance, VL MICA has once again demonstrated the high level of its operational...

After 26/11: Need for Smart Counter-Terrorism - II

By: B Raman |Issue: Book Excerpt: Mumbai 26/11 | Date: 16 April 2011

In 2004, the Government of Dr Manmohan Singh created two posts of National Security Advisers — one for external security, which was held by the late JN Dixit, and the other for internal...

Counter-Insurgency Operations in Northeast - II

By: Brig (Dr) SP Sinha |Issue: Book Excerpt: Lost Opportunities | Date: 16 April 2011

Counter-Insurgency Operations in Nagaland By the beginning of 1953, situation in Nagaland had turned volatile. Phizo toured the district and exhorted the people not to pay taxes....