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M-346 Trainer Aircraft from Alenia Aermacchi

M-346 Trainer Aircraft from Alenia Aermacchi

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Jun , 2014

In March this year, at its plant in Venegono Superiore in Italy, Alenia Aermacchi rolled out the first M-346 advanced trainer aircraft out for the Israeli Air and Space Force. The M-346 is...

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Marketing of Combat Jets

Marketing of Combat Jets

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Jun , 2014

Emerging countries in need of modernising their weaponry are rushing to buy state-of-the-art fighter jets, sparking a fierce marketing battle among the global aerospace majors. French Defense...

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SAR Helicopters from AgustaWestland

SAR Helicopters from AgustaWestland

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Jun , 2014

AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica company, has been awarded a contract for 16 AW101 helicopters as also support and training, valued at approximately €1.15 billion, to meet the Norwegian All...

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USAF B-1 Bomber Contract for Boeing

USAF B-1 Bomber Contract for Boeing

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Jun , 2014

As per an announcement by the Pentagon, Boeing has been selected for the award of the $750 million five-year contract for work on the US Air Force fleet of B-1 bombers. The contract includes...

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Indo-French bilateral exercise Ex Garuda V commences at Jodhpur

Indo-French bilateral exercise Ex Garuda V commences at Jodhpur

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Jun , 2014

With the aim of enhancing  Operational Co-operation and to validate capabilities, the Indian Air Force  & French Air Force  commenced the bilateral exercise “Ex Garuda V” at Jodhpur Air...

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हमारा नहीं पाकिस्तान का हित...

हमारा नहीं पाकिस्तान का हित...

By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Courtesy: www.jagran.com | Date: 02 Jun , 2014

प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी ने दक्षेस सदस्य देशों को अपने शपथ ग्रहण समारोह...

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Ajit Doval – the Chanakya in the Team

Ajit Doval – the Chanakya in the Team

By: Karan Kharb | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Jun , 2014

Just as Prime Minister Narendra Modi assumes office after a blitzkrieg electoral offensive that saw Congress and its allies vanquished as never before, the dishonest and inefficient bureaucrats in...

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Article 370 and Nation-Building: A Reality Check

Article 370 and Nation-Building: A Reality Check

By: Brig Amar Cheema | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 31 May , 2014

 “Nothing is as admirable in politics as a short memory’’ –John Galbraith Nation building is an ‘ongoing’ phenomenon and in the case of India’s quest for nationhood, it is definitely...

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J&K: Theatre of the Next War

J&K: Theatre of the Next War

By: Maj Gen GD Bakshi, (Retd) | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 30 May , 2014

Significance of the Gilgit–Gwadar Corridor The ominously rising strategic salience of the Gilgit–Baltistan region was made sharply apparent by Selig Harrison’s startling disclosure in 2010...

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Pakistan Occupied Kashmir and Northern Areas

Pakistan Occupied Kashmir and Northern Areas

By: Bhashyam Kasturi | Issue: Vol 14.3 Jul-Sep 1999 | Date: 30 May , 2014

The Northern Areas form a large chunk of territory annexed by Pakistan in 1947. It provided the bulk of the manpower for the intrusions in Kargil, consisting of the Northern Light Infantry of the...

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Diplomatic engagement in a post nuclear use environment

Diplomatic engagement in a post nuclear use environment

By: Ali Ahmed | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 May , 2014

Strike corps exercises are usually well covered by the media. Inevitably mentioned in write ups from reporters over the past decade since Exercise Poorna Vijay has been the nuclear backdrop. The...

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Will the wind blow from the East?

Will the wind blow from the East?

By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 May , 2014

The tides are changing. As Narendra Modi takes oath as the new Prime Minister of India, Asia is fast becoming the center of the world. Agence France-Presse reported that China and Russia signed...

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Exercise Sagar Kavach conducted successfully

Exercise Sagar Kavach conducted successfully

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 May , 2014

The bi-annual maritime coastal security exercise introduced post 26/11 was conducted on 21-22 May 2014 across the State of Gujarat and Union Territory of Daman & Diu coastline. The maritime...

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Boeing Delivers 4th P-8I Maritime Patrol Aircraft to India

Boeing Delivers 4th P-8I Maritime Patrol Aircraft to India

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 May , 2014

Boeing has delivered the fourth P-8I maritime patrol aircraft to India on schedule, fulfilling the first half of a contract for eight aircraft. The aircraft departed from Boeing Field in Seattle...

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The Insoluble Equation: Indo-Pak Relations

The Insoluble Equation: Indo-Pak Relations

By: Anand K Verma | Issue: Book Excerpt: Reassessing Pakistan | Date: 25 May , 2014

The two-nation theory has mired Indo-Pak relationship into an intractable problem in Kashmir. More than a half-century has gone by after independence and four wars fought during this period but...

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Misreading India's Strategic Culture

Misreading India's Strategic Culture

By: Brig K Kuldip Singh | Issue: Book Excerpts: Kurukshetra to Kargil | Date: 24 May , 2014

Use of military terms in non-military fields, particularly after the Second World War, has been quite in vogue. The usage of military expressions like art of war, strategy, leadership, battlefield...

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Government should give due consideration to selection of defence minister

Government should give due consideration to selection of defence minister

By: Lt Gen Harwant Singh | Issue: Courtesy: HT (Chd edition) | Date: 23 May , 2014

There are many contenders for ministerial berths in the new government at the centre. Prime minister has the onerous task of putting the right man in the right job. There will be pressure on him...

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Military Diplomacy – time to bridge the void

Military Diplomacy – time to bridge the void

By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 May , 2014

Questioned ‘why do we need military officers to engage in diplomacy,  Nitin Pai, founder and fellow for geopolitics at the Takshila Institute, had replied, “Not only does the nature of...

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Foreign Policy and Power Projection under Modi

Foreign Policy and Power Projection under Modi

By: Col R Hariharan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 May , 2014

Narendra Modi, the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate, has been given massive mandate by the people in the just concluded general elections to the parliament. The BJP is poised to get a...

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Boeing KC-46A Readies for Testing

Boeing KC-46A Readies for Testing

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 May , 2014

Boeing has begun assembling the fourth and final KC-46A flight-testing aircraft, the manufacturer’s next-generation aerial refuelling tanker replacement for the current fleet of KC-135 with the...

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