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Defence Offset Facilitation Agency (DOFA) has been established under the Department of Defence Production (DDP) as a single window agency to facilitate implementation of the offset policy of the...

Commonly used terms in Defence Offsets

By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman |Issue: Vol 23.1 Jan-Mar 2008 | Date: 29 December 2010

Offsets can broadly be termed as formal arrangements of trade, wherein a foreign supplier undertakes specified programmes with a view to compensate the buyer as regards his procurement...

Elbit to Supply EHUD Air Combat Maneuvering Instrumentation Systems

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 December 2010

Elbit Systems Ltd. announced that it was awarded an approximately $18 million contract, for the supply of an EHUD® Air Combat Maneuvering Instrumentation (ACMI) system for an Asian air force....

Indian Energy Security-II

By: Ashish Puntambekar |Issue: Vol 23.1 Jan-Mar 2008 | Date: 29 December 2010

The Indian Need India is growing fast. Last year, a survey of some 600 companies by the NCAER found that an astonishing 96 percent of them were operating at close to their optimal levels of...

Indian Energy Security-III

By: Ashish Puntambekar |Issue: Vol 23.1 Jan-Mar 2008 | Date: 29 December 2010

The Pipelines SPV The pipelines Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV 2) will be a consortium of Indian energy companies and strategic investors some of whom will be investing primarily for tax purposes....

International Terrorism: A Perspective to Current Scenarios

By: Anand K Verma |Issue: Vol 22.3 Jul-Sep 2007 | Date: 27 December 2010

Terrorism has undergone what may be equivalent to genetic changes. In the earlier decades, its agenda was mostly political, such as class questions, national liberation and urban or anarchic...

The Shadows in J&K

By: B Raman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 December 2010

In his message of February 12, 2007, Ayman al-Zawahiri, the No.2 to Osama bin Laden, has spoken of a global Jihadi Intifada. Has he spoken of any special areas of focus for this...

Is letting Pakistan collapse an option?

By: B Raman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 December 2010

“The News”, a daily of Pakistan, has carried on December 24, 2010, an analysis by Amir Mir, the well-known Pakistani journalist, of acts of suicide terrorism in Pakistan during 2010.It...

Aster-the first European missile to successfully carry out a ballistic intercept

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 December 2010

MBDA is celebrating the total success of an Aster missile firing carried out on 18th October 2010 by the DGA EM (Direction Générale de l’Armement – Essais de Missiles) in the Landes region of...

Gujjar Agitation: Internal Security Ramifications

By: RSN Singh |Issue: Vol 22.3 Jul-Sep 2007 | Date: 24 December 2010

The purpose of this article is not to dwell on the political and social dynamics of the recent Gujjar agitation, but to highlight the pernicious internal security ramifications of such agitations...

Restructuring Aeronautics

By: SR Valluri |Issue: Vol 22.3 Jul-Sep 2007 | Date: 24 December 2010

Mark Antony, the Defence Minister appointed a high level committee to look into the performance of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) laboratories. It was a timely decision....

Seven new radars to be set up in Lakshadweep to boost coastal security: Antony

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 December 2010

Indian Defence Minister A K Antony says, seven new radars will be set up in different islands of Lakshadweep to prevent illegal entry into the country’s territorial waters. He said, the radars...

France & Nuclear Disarmament between vision & realism-III

By: Claude Arpi |Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 24 December 2010

The second part of the speech is consecrated to disarmament. It is probably the most detailed account by a French President When international security improves, France draws the consequences....

Airbus Military A330 MRTT ends 2010 on a high note

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 December 2010

The Airbus Military A330 Multi Role Tanker Transport is poised to be delivered to three different customers in 2011, following a flurry of activities which ended 2010, and with its position...

Boeing to Build 3-Satellite System for Mexico

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 December 2010

Boeing announced that it has received a contract for approximately $1 billion from the government of Mexico to deliver an end-to-end satellite communications system. The system, known as MEXSAT,...

Boeing Receives P-8I Equipment from India's BEL

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 December 2010

Boeing received a key sensor technology for the Indian navy’s P-8I long-range maritime reconnaissance and anti-submarine warfare aircraft last week from Bharat Electronics Ltd. (BEL). BEL...

France & Nuclear Disarmament between vision & realism-II

By: Claude Arpi |Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 23 December 2010

People are ‘reproducible’ the Great Helmsman is said to have stated. That day, Nehru understood that India and China were not brothers, though Mao was at his charming best, when Nehru left...

Countering Sino-Pak Axis

By: Maj Gen Pushpendra Singh |Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 22 December 2010

Harsh V Pant who teaches at King’s College, London describes Obama’s foreign policy as ‘courting America’s adversaries while ignoring friends and potential allies.’ India, which has...

Defence Industry: Change in approach overdue

By: Lt Gen Vinay Shankar |Issue: Vol 23.1 Jan-Mar 2008 | Date: 22 December 2010

It is almost seven years since the first set of major policy changes were promulgated by the Government to give a fillip to our stagnating and moribund defence industry. The fundamental...

Strange priorities of the Indian media

By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman |Issue: Vol 23.3 Jul-Sep 2008 | Date: 22 December 2010

An extract of the tribute paid by Rajeev Issar to the Late Major Manish Pitambare dated November 28, 2006 and circulated by email On Tuesday (November 27, 2006), this news swept across all the...