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Obama’s visit : US, India & China
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Nov , 2010
On his way to China in November,2009, President Barack Obama had made his first halt in Japan to underline the importance attached by him to the USA’s relations with Japan, with which it has a...
Boeing Opens New P-8 Production Facility in Seattle
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Nov , 2010
Boeing celebrated the opening of a new P-8 aircraft production facility near Boeing Field in Seattle. The refurbished factory gives Boeing and its P-8 teammates the space they need to install...
India’s quest for Anti-Ballistic Missile Defence
By: Air Marshal AK Trikha | Issue: Vol 23.1 Jan-Mar 2008 | Date: 10 Nov , 2010
indian scientists launched an indigenously developed solid fuel rocket called the Advanced Air Defence (AAD) interceptor from Wheeler island to destroy a Prithvi target missile launched earlier...
Nuclear capability of India and China
By: Col R Hariharan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Nov , 2010
A comparison of nuclear capability of India and China cannot be made in isolation. It has to be derived in the backdrop of their strategic vision, global ambitions and political and social ethos...
Obama’s Visit : Focus on Pakistan
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Nov , 2010
During the entire three-day visit of President Barack Obama to India from November 6 to 8, 2010, the Indian public focus remained disproportionately on what he had to say on Pakistan’s continued...
Boeing Receives Small Diameter Bomb Contract Extension from US Air Force
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Nov , 2010
Boeing has received a $106 million contract extension from the U.S. Air Force for nearly 2,700 Small Diameter Bomb Increment I (SDB I) munitions and approximately 380 BRU-61 carriages. Boeing...
Lockheed Martin’s First F-35C carrier variant arrives at US Naval Air...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Nov , 2010
The first F-35C Lightning II carrier variant, the U.S. Navy’s first stealth fighter, arrived at Naval Air Station (NAS) Patuxent River, Md. on Saturday, Nov. 6 at 2:37 p.m. The aircraft,...
Intelligence: Need for Enhanced Focus on China
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Nov , 2010
Since 1947, India has had four reviews of its intelligence capabilities. The first was after the Sino-Indian military conflict of 1962 in which the Indian Army did badly. The review led to two...
Policy changes for Defence Industry of India
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Nov , 2010
Indian Defence Industry is poised to witness major policy changes. Disclosing this at a function after presenting the Raksha Mantri’s Awards for Excellence for the Year 2008-09 to Ordinance...
Global Terrorism and Responses
By: Vikram Sood | Issue: Vol 21.2 Apr-Jun 2006 | Date: 09 Nov , 2010
In today’s context when we talk of international terrorism, we invariably refer to Islamic/jehadi terrorism. Unfortunately, the response to this, described as the global war on terror, is...
India’s Defence Economics
By: Vice Adm (Retd) GM Hiranandani | Issue: Vol 21.4 Oct-Dec 2006 | Date: 09 Nov , 2010
Indian media often highlights the criticism voiced against the Ministry of Defence and its Departments of Research & Development, Defence Production and Defence Finance regarding the cost and...
A400M : The perfect paratrooper and aerial deliverer
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Nov , 2010
The Airbus Military A400M military airlifter has dropped paratroopers for the first time in a successful demonstration of one of its key roles. Six freefall paratroopers made jumps from aircraft...
Obama’s visit: India-US Roadmap for Strategic Partnership
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Nov , 2010
A comprehensive roadmap for giving shape to the Indo-US strategic partnership has been the most important outcome of the very successful visit of President Barack Obama to India from November 6...
India’s soft response to Chinese assertiveness
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Nov , 2010
The Government of India has sought to play down the worrisome implications of China’s new policy on Kashmir favouring Pakistan, its growing strategic presence in the Gilgit-Baltistan area of...
The return of the US to Asia : Core Interests vs Mutual Interests
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Nov , 2010
The visit of President Barack Obama to India, Indonesia, Japan and South Korea will be as important as his earlier swing through the Asia-Pacific region after assuming office in January 2009....
Boeing Launches 4th Earth-Observation Satellite
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Nov , 2010
The Boeing Company on Nov. 5 successfully launched the last in a series of four SkyMed spacecraft for the Italian Constellation of Small Satellites for Mediterranean basin Observation (COSMO). A...
Lockheed Developing Unmanned Helicopter
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Nov , 2010
Aerospace major Lockheed Martin is developing an unmanned helicopter called the Kaman K-MAX that will fly without a pilot and will carry 6,000lbs of cargo at a maximum speed of 92 mph. It will...
India to Enhance AWACS Fleet
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Nov , 2010
After having received the first of the three contracted Ilyushin Il 76-based Airborne Warning & Control Systems (AWACS) aircraft modified by Elta Systems, a subsidiary of Israel Aerospace...
Diagnosing the Pakistani Overreach
By: Lt Gen Vinay Shankar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Nov , 2010
Our Foreign Secretary in a recent talk has stated that “India’s efforts to bridge the trust deficit and pave the way for a serious and comprehensive dialogue were thwarted by a level of...
Pitfalls in Arms Procurement Process
By: Maj Gen AK Mehra | Issue: Vol 25.1 Jan-Mar 2010 | Date: 05 Nov , 2010
Modernization of armed forces is a very capital intensive and long drawn process wherein the armed forces first identify their needs and then acquire the same through some rather complex...