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The Army – What’s gone wrong?
By: Karan Kharb | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Oct , 2013
The Indian Army, besides being the world’s third largest, enjoys a unique status of professional excellence. There is no other army in the world that is as battle hardened as the Indian Army...
Military discipline: recast officer cadre
By: Lt Gen Harwant Singh | Date: 15 Oct , 2013
Of late a number of units have experienced trouble between officers and their men. The disturbing aspect is that there have been scuffles between officers and men, which was quite unheard of in...
Integrated Theatre Commands
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Vol. 28.3 Jul-Sep 2013 | Date: 15 Oct , 2013
Jointness and integration of the Military is an inevitable requirement for the modern day battlefield. The biggest challenge to jointness is to bring about an attitudinal shift by turning the...
Indo-Pak: Military to Military Hot Line
By: Lt Gen Raj Kadyan | Date: 14 Oct , 2013
Talks between neighbouring countries, particularly if their relations have a long history of friction, are never easy, even if necessary. The prevailing sentiments among the population, the...
The Chinese vision of Sino-Pak strategic partnership : I
By: Prof. Priyadarshi Mukherji | Issue: Vol 25.3 Jul-Sep 2010 | Date: 13 Oct , 2013
What was China’s mega-strategy at the outset in setting up ties with Pakistan? According to Mao Zedong’s calculations, Pakistan was nothing but China’s easy access to the Atlantic and the...
Did the PMs of India and Pakistan need to meet just yet?
By: Kanwal Sibal | Date: 11 Oct , 2013
Manmohan Singh’s meeting with his Pakistani counterpart, Nawaz Sharif, in New York on September 29 produced limited results. After Singh himself mentioned toned down expectations from the...
China’s Interests in Shaksgam Valley
By: Senge H. Sering | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Oct , 2013
Chinese nationals are once again in the newspapers of Gilgit-Baltistan, this time for smuggling heavy precious metals and gems out of the region. To date, China occupies more than 20,000 square...
First Production AW189 Performs its Maiden Flight
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Oct , 2013
AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica company, is pleased to announce that the first production AW189 8 tonne class twin engine helicopter performed its maiden flight at Vergiate plant (Italy) today. The...
Understanding Nawaz Sharif
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Oct , 2013
In the face of the recent revelations by well-placed sources that the Manmohan Singh government has been underplaying a series of border intrusions by and effective loss of Indian territories to...
Is Army entering politics?
By: Col R Hariharan | Date: 10 Oct , 2013
[This article includes comments made by the author in a panel discussion titled “Is the army entering politics?” in a TV news channel on September 24, 2013. Other two panelists belonged to...
$4.9 billion Contract for 99 V-22 Ospreys
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Oct , 2013
Under terms of a $4.9 billion contract, the US Navy is ordering 99 V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft from Bell-Boeing for the USAF and Marine Corps. The contract also gives the US Navy an option to...
30 Mi-17s for US Army for Operations in Afghanistan
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Oct , 2013
In a contract worth $572.2 million, the US Army plans to acquire 30 Russian-made medium-lift military attack helicopters which perform particularly well in the hot weather and high altitudes of...
Lockheed Martin delivers third F-35 for RAF
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Oct , 2013
The third F-35B Short Takeoff/Vertical Landing (STOVL) Lightning II for the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence has been delivered by Lockheed Martin (LM). The aircraft, known as BK-3 (ZM137),...
Navy Completes First X-47B Arrested Landing
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Oct , 2013
The first arrested landing onto an aircraft carrier with Northrop Grumman’s X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) has been conducted by the US Navy. The X-47B, with a 62-foot wingspan and...
Boeing Delivers 5th Canadian CH-147F Chinook Helicopter
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Oct , 2013
Boeing has delivered the Royal Canadian Air Force’s (RCAF) fifth CH-147F Chinook helicopter one month ahead of schedule and only three months after the arrival of the first in June, expanding...
घुसपैठ भारत की कमजोरी
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Courtesy: Rashtriya Sahara | Date: 09 Oct , 2013
केरन सेक्टर में घुसपैठ का खुलासा 23 सितम्बर को हुआ लेकिन पाकिस्तान की यह...
Pak Regulars Combine with LeT, Mujahids, and Taliban against India
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Oct , 2013
It is not surprising that India’s lack of strategic culture denies policy makers to think beyond Border Action Teams (BAT). Whether the BAT obsession is because of the penchant for cricket...
MBDA’s Sea Ceptor Air Defence System Selected for Royal New Zealand
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Oct , 2013
The New Zealand MoD has confirmed its preferred tenderers for the Royal New Zealand Navy’s (RNZN) ANZAC Frigate Systems Upgrade project to include MBDA as the provider of Sea Ceptor for the...
Elbit awarded $33 million contract for the supply of Electro-optical...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Oct , 2013
Elbit Systems announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Elbit Systems Electro-optics – Elop Ltd. (Elop), was awarded a follow-on contract to supply its advanced Digital CoMPASS®...
Defence PSUs: The Great Betrayal
By: Gp Capt AG Bewoor | Issue: Vol 24.4 Oct-Dec 2009 | Date: 05 Oct , 2013
When the Saras crashed, killing its crew, the deafening silence in the media, as also from those who know about flight testing, design and manufacture of aeroplanes, and the unforeseen dangers in...