Articles in Issues
Assisting Afghanistan Militarily
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 11 Jan , 2014
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Hamid Karzai discussed the US-Afghanistan Bilateral Security Arrangement (BSA) when they met in New Delhi last month. The US withdrawal from Afghanistan...
Islamic Terror and American Dualism
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Jan , 2014
The other day I went to the New Delhi-based Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, with which I am associated in some way, to hear Professor Stephen P Cohen, the leading American expert on the...
Welcome on board: Airbus Helicopters takes off!
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Jan , 2014
The rebranding of Eurocopter as Airbus Helicopters, effective today, marks a new era in the history of the company, which joins Airbus and Airbus Defence & Space within the new Airbus Group –...
Time for Adopting a Life Cycle Approach to Defence Acquisitions
By: Bikramdeep Singh | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 09 Jan , 2014
Till very recently Indian Army has been looking at acquiring weapon systems and platforms to meet operational voids and emerging requirements to deal with known and perceived threats, without due...
Euro Hawk Sets a Record
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Jan , 2014
The Northrop Grumman Euro Hawk Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) and Cassidian flew continuously for 25.3 hours in European airspace in August this year, setting a new record in flight endurance....
Boeing in South Korea Fighter Contest
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Jan , 2014
Boeing emerged as the Lowest Bidder (L1) and the only one below the price limit set by the country’s arms procurement agency in response to the $7.4 billion tender floated by South Korea to...
Game Changers in the Next Decade
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Jan , 2014
At the Association of Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) 2013 conference and trade show in Washington, the renowned analyst at market research, the Teal Group Corporation estimates...
Raven UAS for the US Army
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Jan , 2014
The United States Army has placed an order worth $13.5 million with AeroVironment for RQ-11B Raven Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), miniature gimbaled payloads and initial spares packages. This is...
Lockheed Martin Showcases Transformer UAS
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Jan , 2014
Lockheed Martin and Piasecki Aircraft are in Phase III of a Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) contract to develop a prototype of what could be the next generation of unmanned...
Chinese Unmanned Aerial Systems Displayed in the US
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Jan , 2014
A range of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) designed and developed by Ewatt, a Wuhan, Hubei Province-based company of China, made their appearance for the first time in the US at the Association for...
Harop Loitering Munitions System for the IAF
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Jan , 2014
The Indian Air Force (IAF) is set to purchase the Harop Loitering Munitions System from the Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) with deliveries commencing next year. Capable of being launched from a...
2014 में रक्षा की प्राथमिकताएं
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Courtesy: Rashtriya Sahara | Date: 06 Jan , 2014
हमारे देश में हर चीज के साथ ही असंगत दृष्टिकोण अपनाया जाता है। हम मुकम्मल...
Infrastructure in the IAF: A Force Multiplier
By: Air Marshal Raghu Rajan | Issue: Vol. 28.4 Oct-Dec 2013 | Date: 04 Jan , 2014
Due to its long gestation period, infrastructure needs advance and integrated planning amongst the three services and civil agencies to ensure that the end result is cost-effective without...
AgustaWestland welcomes the Government of India’s Nomination of an Arbitrator
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Jan , 2014
AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica company, confirms to have received yesterday from India’s Ministry of Defence a notification concerning the appointment of an arbitrator from its side, as...
Slow Pace of Army Modernization
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Jan , 2014
Strange as it may seem, Indian genius can successfully launch multiple satellites or a spacecraft to Mars but seems hopelessly ill-equipped to develop a basic armament such as a rifle, carbine or...
Challenges Facing Civil Aviation in India
By: Robert S Metzger | Issue: Vol. 28.4 Oct-Dec 2013 | Date: 01 Jan , 2014
Civil aviation in India may be taken as a study in contrasts. Despite extraordinary growth in traffic, most of India’s airlines are in a precarious condition. Despite forecasts that India will...
Fixing the Fault Lines in 2014
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Courtesy: Mail Today | Date: 30 Dec , 2013
Our major foreign policy challenges are enduring and no dramatic change in our security environment is likely in 2014. Relations with Pakistan could actually worsen. Nawaz Sharif is focusing on...
Military and the Media
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Dec , 2013
The Lucknow Literature Carnival 2013 held from 6 to 8 December for the first time had a full session on Defence Writing. It generated quite a bit of enthusiasm in the journalistic circles. What is...
Games Nations Play: Chinese Assertiveness & America’s Re-balancing
By: Brig Amar Cheema | Issue: Vol. 28.4 Oct-Dec 2013 | Date: 28 Dec , 2013
Realpolitik dictates a policy of ‘congagement’ of China and explains America’s reasons for accommodating the former at the grand table. Thus, while the US-Chinese relationship is expected...
India’s First Supersonic Jet MiG-21
By: Joydeep Dasgupta | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 27 Dec , 2013
Every one of us wants to fly high above the sky and therefore our fascination towards the sky always remains in our dreams and therefore we keep watching aircraft and feel envy of them. There...