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Prithvi-II missile hits target in a flawless user mission
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Aug , 2013
A missile unit of the Strategic Forces Command (SFC) today morning successfully launched the indigenously developed surface-to-surface/ nuclear capable Prithvi II missile with a strike range of...
Simulation and Training: The IAF Perspective
By: Air Marshal Dhiraj Kukreja | Issue: Vol. 28.2 Apr-Jun 2013 | Date: 12 Aug , 2013
“Simulators go a long way in ensuring that a pilot learns about systems under simulation before he actually uses these on-board an aircraft thus saving precious flying hours. Apart from...
India’s Quest for an Indigenous Aircraft Carrier
By: Admiral Arun Prakash (Retd.) | Issue: Vol 21.3 Jul-Sep 2006 | Date: 12 Aug , 2013
It was indeed fortuitous for our navy that at the moment of India’s independence, those charged with planning for the nation’s embryonic maritime force included many men of vision. In 1948,...
Don’t over react to incidents on the LoC
By: Lt Gen Harwant Singh | Date: 10 Aug , 2013
Recent incident of killing of Indian soldiers along the Loc in J and K, has been, somewhat, blown out of proportion, which could possibly impact on the efforts to improve India – Pak...
Strangling Self Esteem
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Aug , 2013
The Defence Minister’s flip flop statements and eventfully blaming the Pakistani Army for the barbaric killing of five India soldiers through a cross-border raid yet again indicates the bane...
Killing of Indian Soldiers on LoC
By: Lt Gen Raj Kadyan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Aug , 2013
Five Indian soldiers were killed in Poonch Sector without warning or getting a chance to defend themselves. This was a sneak attack in an area covered by the ceasefire agreement signed by both...
Boeing, US Navy Demo New Targeting and Data Systems on EA-18G
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Aug , 2013
Advanced technologies will significantly improve Growler’s targeting capabilities The U.S. Navy recently flew Boeing EA-18G Growler aircraft with sensor system upgrades and its newest data...
Cassidian’s flexible radar sensor concept confirmed in flight tests
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Aug , 2013
. Software-defined “SmartRadar” detects targets over land and sea with maximum resolution Easily adaptable for various manned and unmanned platforms Cassidian, the defence and security...
Have we done enough to secure the borders?
By: Col (Dr) PK Vasudeva | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Aug , 2013
A heavily armed team of terrorists and Pakistani troops ambushed an Indian Army patrol along the Line of Control (LoC) in the Poonch sector of Jammu and Kashmir in the early hours of August 7,...
How not to deal with Pakistan
By: Lt Gen NS Malik | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Aug , 2013
The dastardly act on the part of Pakistan Army on the LOC by ambushing a night patrol of 21 BIHAR and killing five soldiers is not only condemnable, but absolutely unacceptable in terms of...
Maiden Flight of China’s Y-20 Air Freighter
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Aug , 2013
China’s Ministry of National Defence has confirmed that the maiden flight of its first domestically developed four-engine heavy military transport aircraft designated as the Y-20, was carried...
New hurdles on the road to peace in Kabul
By: Kanwal Sibal | Date: 08 Aug , 2013
In 2014, power will be transferred to a new president in Afghanistan. The army of the United States of America will complete its withdrawal and the Afghan National Security Forces will assume...
Conditions needed for India-Pakistan rapprochement
By: Air Marshal B D Jayal | Issue: Courtesy: US National Strategy Forum Review | Date: 08 Aug , 2013
The act of geographically dividing a people on an untested “two nation theory,” ignoring a shared multi-cultural heritage dating back centuries, was bound to have consequences beyond anything...
Navy’s Boeing P8I Touches Down at the Emerald Islands
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Aug , 2013
The Boeing P8I, a Long Range Maritime Reconnaissance Anti-submarine Warfare (LRMR/ASW) aircraft of the Indian Navy, made its maiden landing at the INS Utkrosh airfield on Tuesday, 06 Aug...
Nepal’s Crimson Deluge Complete
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Date: 07 Aug , 2013
On June 13, a major explosion of China’s soft power in Nepal went largely unnoticed in India. This was the gala opening of the Confucius Institute in Kathmandu University co-established by Hebei...
Pakistan needs firm handling not niceties
By: Lt Gen Harwant Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Aug , 2013
The recent killing of four soldiers and one junior commissioned officer near the LoC in the Poonch sector of J&K is yet another serious violation of peace along this line. For Pakistan army to...
India’s options in dealing with Pakistan
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Aug , 2013
When we consider our options, the first reality that we must accept is that we have no option but to deal with Pakistan irrespective of whether we have friendly or inimical relations with it, as...
The time to trust Pakistan is long gone
By: Dr Amarjit Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Aug , 2013
Nawaz Sharif set media wires buzzing when he proclaimed soon after the results of Pakistan’s elections were announced last month that he aims to (a) make peace with the terrorist outfits in...
Reading China on Sino-Indian Border Issue
By: Bhaskar Roy | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 06 Aug , 2013
The Chinese communist leadership has perfected the act of saying things and giving signals, leaving it to the other side to decipher and understand Their internal speeches and documents are...
Airbus Military delivers first A400M to French Air Force
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Aug , 2013
Airbus Military has today formally delivered the first A400M new generation airlifter, which is known in French service as the A400M Atlas, to the French Air Force, a milestone marking the...