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DCNS conducts further sea trials with BPC Dixmude
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Sep , 2011
DCNS began new sea trials on 19 September with BPC Dixmude, the French Navy’s third Mistral-class force projection and command vessel, which was ordered by the French defence procurement agency...
F-35 Program Completes Static Structural Testing
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Sep , 2011
Lockheed Martin’s F-35 program has successfully completed static structural testing, achieving one of five milestones established by the Joint Program Office for 2011. Static structural testing...
Boeing forecasts strong need for Aviation Personnel in Asia Pacific
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Sep , 2011
Boeing forecasts the Asia Pacific region will require hundreds of thousands of new commercial airline pilots and technicians over the next 20 years to support airline fleet modernization and the...
Develop Cutting Edge Defense Industries
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol 24.2 Apr-Jun 2009 | Date: 18 Sep , 2011
< !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> To develop cutting edge defense industries, New Delhi must eschew the inherent divisive tendencies. Instead of consolidating Aero India 2009 as the foremost Asian aerospace show, we reduced its...
China: Checkmating India in Afghanistan
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Sep , 2011
China has shown interest in the construction of two railway lines—-one in Pakistan via the Gilgit-Baltistan region and the other in Afghanistan. While the railway line through Gilgit-Baltistan,...
The Af-Pak boundary is not a border
By: Lt Gen JFR Jacob | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Sep , 2011
There has been a heated debate on the validity and legality of Sir Henry Mortimer Durand’s line, a line some 2,640 kilometres long between former British India and Afghanistan, which now...
Reign of Terror: How safe are we?
By: Col US Rathore | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Sep , 2011
Post-26/11, reacting to the elaborate security arrangements near Hotel Taj, Mumbai someone exclaimed with great flourish, “Why all this? Lightning does not strike at the same place...
South China Sea: India should avoid rushing in where even US exercises caution
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Sep , 2011
China has reacted — moderately through a spokesperson of its Foreign Office and somewhat virulently through the Party-controlled “Global Times” — to reports that India has been...
MBDA Readies Fire Shadow on back of Programme Successes
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Sep , 2011
The Fire Shadow weapon system has successfully completed a series of demonstration trials and two more successful firings in a ground breaking rapid development programme that was launched in...
Indian Mujahideen objective, an Islamic Caliphate across South Asia, says USA
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Sep , 2011
The Secretary of State designated the Indian Mujahideen (IM) as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) under Section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act and as a Specially Designated...
Pakistan: A Convoluted Script
By: Wilson John | Issue: Vol 22.4 Oct-Dec 2007 | Date: 14 Sep , 2011
When the time comes for writing an epitaph for Pakistan’s President-General Pervez Musharraf, two critical blunders committed by him in 2007 would be mentioned without fail. First would be the...
Mumbai 26/11 repeated by Taliban in Kabul
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Sep , 2011
According to an analysis by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), the Afghan Taliban and its affiliates such as the Haqqani network and Gulbuddin Heckmatyar’s Hizbe-Islami (HI) attempted...
Hazaras Massacred in Balochistan by Al Qaeda
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Sep , 2011
Twenty-six Shia pilgrims belonging to the Hazara community were dragged out of a bus in which they were travelling at Mastung in Balochistan on September 20,2011, lined up and shot dead by...
India’s Strategic Engagement of the East
By: SD Muni | Issue: Vol 20.4 Oct-Dec 2005 | Date: 14 Sep , 2011
India’s ‘Look-East Policy’, initiated during the early 1990s as a part of India’s attempts to cope with the post-Cold War shifts in world and Asian politics, has picked up the threads,...
Pakistan: Testing of Tactical Nuclear Weapons
By: Cdr Abhijit Singh | Issue: Vol. 26.3 July - Sept 2011 | Date: 12 Sep , 2011
Pakistan’s recent tests of its Tactical Nuclear Missiles suggest a lowering of the threshold for nuclear conflict. More portentous is the underlying assumption of Tactical Nuclear Missiles...
India’s Southern Security
By: Lt Gen SC Sardeshpande | Issue: Vol 22.3 Jul-Sep 2007 | Date: 11 Sep , 2011
A general review of media reportage on India’s southern security, relating to Sri Lanka in recent months reveals following salient aspects:- Sri Lankan Govt’s (SLG) argument of finding...
IAF: Meeting the Challenges – II
By: Air Marshal BK Pandey | Issue: Book Excerpt: Indian Armed Forces | Date: 10 Sep , 2011
Strategic & Tactical Strike Capability To develop a credible deterrent as also meet with its commitments of power projection in the region, the IAF would have to have a fleet of potent, long...
Terror without Trail
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Sep , 2011
The terrorism situation on the ground is more and more worrying. It is not just because the terrorists have become smarter than they were before. They have, of course, but that should not be the...
Rabbani’s Assassination: A wake-up call for India
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Sep , 2011
The assassination on September 20,2011, of Burhanuddin Rabbani, a Tajik leader of Afghanistan, is of strategic significance to India. Rabbaniwas the President of Afghanistan in the 1990s when...
Pakistan: A Troubled Legacy and an Uncertain Future – II
By: Lt Gen Kamal Davar (Retd) | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 06 Sep , 2011
Relations with the United States Pakistan’s relations since the early 1950s with its mentor, the United States, has been a roller-coaster ride. Pakistan has been kept afloat all these years by...