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No Time for Turf Wars
By: Air Marshal B D Jayal | Issue: Courtesy: The Telegraph | Date: 09 Mar , 2013
Nothing could have painted a clearer security picture of our neighbourhood than three prominent news items on the same day in one national daily .Osama plotted to nuke US with AQ help, India...
China and Pakistan: Plain Talk is the Key!
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 08 Mar , 2013
Diplomacy does not imply ignoring the obvious where national security is involved. When China warned India to cease oil exploration in Vietnamese waters, there were calls that India should raise...
Gorshkov to be Delivered by 2013 End
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Mar , 2013
Aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov, renamed as INS Vikramaditya, is expected to be handed over to the Indian Navy by the end of 2013. The delay is on account of a major malfunction in the main...
Autonomous UAS Technology
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Mar , 2013
Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $13.5 million contract to explore highly advanced autonomous technologies aboard an unmanned vertical take-off and landing aircraft. Under the contract, Lockheed...
US Aerospace Majors in the Indian Market
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Mar , 2013
The US has bagged another Indian defence contract with the CH47F Chinook manufactured by Boeing emerging as the lowest bidder in a competition against the Russian Mi-26 T2 helicopter. The bid for...
Display of Air Power by China
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Mar , 2013
China conducted one of its biggest Air Force exercises involving nearly 100 combat aircraft of ten different types while it is embroiled in a dispute over drilling for oil in the South China Sea...
Pakistan’s Korean link
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Mar , 2013
North Korea, arguably the world’s most dangerous totalitarian country, has recommended a range of 28 hairstyles for its citizens, claiming that they are “the most comfortable” styles and capable...
A set-back to Islamic extremism in Bangladesh
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Mar , 2013
The Shabag movement of Dhaka, which is also referred to as Bangladesh Spring, has been like the Tahrir Square movement of Egypt (2010), a spontaneous uprising of the youth of Dhaka demanding the...
India to raise 30 Infantry Battalions
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Mar , 2013
Modernization of Army including Infantry is a continuous process, based on threat perception, operational necessity, technological changes and available resources. Combat capacity and mobility of...
Build a stronger partnership with France and Britain
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Courtesy: The Telegraph | Date: 06 Mar , 2013
The back-to-back visits of the president of France, Francois Hollande, and the prime minister of Britain, David Cameron, last month have put the spotlight on India’s relationship with Europe....
Helicopter demand up worldwide for next five years
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Mar , 2013
In its 15th Turbine-Powered Civil Helicopter Purchase Outlook report, Honeywell expects that global deliveries of new civilian-use helicopters will increase to between 4,900 to 5,600 over the...
“Companies choosing not to invest in India due to corruption” Robert...
By: Raymond Barrett and Freny Patel | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Mar , 2013
Worried about beefed-up anti-corruption enforcement at home, US firms are hesitant to invest in India in spite of a void created by the blacklisting of certain Russian, Israeli and European...
Finmeccanica wins new orders worth EUR 350 million for commercial helicopters
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Mar , 2013
AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica company, has won orders with a total value of about EUR 350 million for commercial helicopters. Among the principal agreements, signed during Heli-Expo 2013 (HAI),...
A Nation and it’s Toothless Nuclear Doctrine
By: Air Marshal B D Jayal | Issue: Courtesy: The Telegraph | Date: 05 Mar , 2013
Even as the celebrations at our joining the ‘nuclear club’ start to ebb, contrary information from across the Atlantic is getting shriller. The Ministry of External Affairs now accepts that...
European Defence Agency actions for Future Land Systems
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Mar , 2013
Based on an analysis of the European land defence industry, the European Defence Agency has identified distinct areas for prioritised common actions on European demonstrator programmes, on key...
Empowering the Military
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Mar , 2013
Situations in counter insurgency environment cause their own stress on soldiers especially when politicians and officials play their dirty games. Three days after the operation, DC Kupwara...
The Malala Moment and Reforming Pakistan’s Education System
By: Pratibha Singh | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 03 Mar , 2013
Malala Yousufzai has emerged as an icon for countless girls in repressed societies. On 10 October 2012, she survived a brutal attack in the Swat Valley by pro-Taliban elements who perceive...
Boeing Phantom Eye Completes 2nd Flight
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Mar , 2013
High-Altitude, Long-Endurance demonstrator climbs above 8,000 feet Boeing’s liquid hydrogen-powered Phantom Eye unmanned airborne system completed its second flight Feb. 25, demonstrating...
MBDA wins first export order for SIMBAD-RC
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Mar , 2013
MBDA has signed a first contract with an export customer for the acquisition of its naval air defence system SIMBAD-RC, one year after launching its self-financed development. The first prototypes...
Cassidian delivers 100th Eurofighter to the German Air Force
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Mar , 2013
The Eurofighter is the most modern combat aircraft currently available worldwide German Air Force Chief of Staff Muellner: “Eurofighter is the backbone of the air forces” Seven nations use...