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Don’t dishonour a brave soldier
By: Lt Gen Harwant Singh | Date: 24 Jan , 2013
The news that the gurdwara in Panchkula ( Haryana ) had refused to hold the ‘Barsi ‘ ceremony of late Lt-Gen RS Dayal, MVC, has sent shock waves amongst the serving and the retired defence...
Boeing Delivers Indian Air Force’s 1st C-17 Globemaster
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Jan , 2013
Program on schedule to deliver 5 airlifters in 2013 and 5 in 2014 Boeing on Jan. 22 delivered – on schedule – the first of 10 C-17 Globemaster III airlifters for the Indian Air Force (IAF)....
Aligning Armed Forces to 21st Century Internal Security Threats
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Courtesy: Centre for Joint Warfare Studies | Date: 23 Jan , 2013
“Europeans believe that Indian leaders in politics and business are so blissfully blinded by the new, sometimes ill-gotten, wealth and deceit that they are living in defiance, insolence and...
Eurofighter to Secure Airspace during World Economic Forum
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Jan , 2013
Eurofighter belonging to the Austrian Armed Forces will be used to secure the airspace during the World Economic Forum 2013 in Davos. As part of the airspace surveillance operation „Daedalus...
Mahindra and BAE join hands in India
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Jan , 2013
Since the establishment in 2009 of the Mahindra & Mahindra (74%) and BAE Systems (26%) Joint Venture, Defence Land Systems India (DLSI), both shareholders recognise that significant evolution has...
Bangalore Gears up to Host Aero India – 2013
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Jan , 2013
The Defence Minister AK Antony would inaugurate the Ninth Edition of Aero India on 06 February 2013 at Air Force Station Yelahanka in Bangalore. Organised by Department of Defence Production...
India’s first Naval Offshore Patrol Vessel (NOPV) INS Saryu Commissioned
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Jan , 2013
Air Marshal PK Roy, Commander-in-Chief, Andaman and Nicobar Command, commissioned INS Saryu into the Indian Navy at Goa today. INS Saryu is the lead ship of the indigenous Naval Offshore Patrol...
Veneration of a fallen enemy: A Missionary View
By: Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Jan , 2013
Professional soldiers mutilate none, dead or alive, enemy or friend. Indeed, a martyred enemy is an object of sombre empathy and deep veneration. Pakistan Army soldiers – most of them – are highly...
Unmaking of a great power in the making…
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol 27.3 Jul-Sep 2012 | Date: 20 Jan , 2013
Sixty-five years after Independence, the ‘functional anarchy’ is now increasingly becoming dysfunctional as disorder spreads across the Union of India. Midway, even before she could rise and...
India- Pak dialogue, futile exercise
By: Lt Gen Vijay Oberoi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Jan , 2013
The killing, and more importantly, savage mutilation of two soldiers of the Indian Army on the Line of Control ( LoC) has put a big question mark on the ‘ on- again/ off- again’ dialogue the two...
Pakistan: Time to end unilateral concessions
By: Kanwal Sibal | Date: 19 Jan , 2013
Prime Minister Shri Manmohan Singh’s remark that there can be no business as usual with Pakistan after its troops mutilated the bodies of two Indian soldiers they killed, and that those...
India and Pakistan: Between Hawks and Peaceniks, is there a middle path?
By: Maj Gen S G Vombatkere | Date: 17 Jan , 2013
The beheading and mutilation of the bodies of L/Nk Hemraj and L/Nk Sudarshan Singh by Pakistani soldiers on January 8, 2013, is yet another barbaric act by Pakistan’s army, following several...
Sagem delivers infrared binoculars to French army
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Jan , 2013
Sagem (Safran) delivered the first 150 JIM LR 2 multifunction long-range infrared binoculars to the French army, in line with the original delivery schedule. This delivery was part of the JIR TTA...
Dutch armed forces to continue close cooperation with Rheinmetalls
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Jan , 2013
The Rheinmetall Group of Düsseldorf and the Dutch armed forces have agreed to extend an existing agreement for the supply of various ammunition types in close cooperation between Rheinmetall and...
Boeing Statement on Federal Aviation Administration 787 Action
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Jan , 2013
Boeing Chairman, President and CEO Jim McNerney issued the following statement today after the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued an emergency airworthiness directive that requires...
Elbit selected to provide the U.S. Army with Skylark
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Jan , 2013
Elbit Systems Ltd. announced that Elbit Systems of America, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Elbit Systems, has been selected for award by the U.S. Army ACC-APG, Natick Contracting Division on...
The IAF at 79: The Challenges Ahead
By: Gp Capt Joseph Noronha | Issue: Vol. 27.1 -Mar 2012 | Date: 17 Jan , 2013
As the IAF strives to confront many challenges, it rightly means to transform itself into a capability-based force, rather than an adversary-centric one. In future, the service may have a critical...
Shamelessly, business as usual with Pakistan
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Jan , 2013
“PM gives ‘tough message’ to Pakistan” says the media. Did he by the meek remark of ‘business cannot be as usual’, delivered in characteristic apologetic body language? The fact this...
Pak savagery on the Line of Control in J&K
By: Lt Gen Harwant Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Jan , 2013
Pakistani troops crossed the Line of control ( LoC ) in the Poonch Sector of J and K and killed two India soldiers. It is not so much the killing but the savage act and heinous crime of mutilating...
Aspide 2000 wins further acclaim in Kuwait
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Jan , 2013
Another Aspide 2000 success in Kuwait reaffirms the missile’s status as a major aircraft buster. Fired from a Skyguard air defence system, the Aspide 2000 missiles brought down two Banshee...