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Decoding the Dragon’s Game Plan

Decoding the Dragon’s Game Plan

By: Maj Gen Pushpendra Singh | Issue: Vol. 28.3 Jul-Sep 2013 | Date: 07 Nov , 2013

Over the past decades, we have constantly tried to mollify the Dragon. In the bargain, we have been inveigled into surrendering our bargaining chips one by one. Therefore, we should now strive to...

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First Rafale deliveries to India by 2016

First Rafale deliveries to India by 2016

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Nov , 2013

French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian was quoted by the financial daily ‘Les Echos’ that France expects to make its first deliveries of Rafale to India by 2016 or 2017. The paper stated...

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MQ-8C, the Rotary Wing UAV of the Future?

MQ-8C, the Rotary Wing UAV of the Future?

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Nov , 2013

Earlier this month, at the Navy League’s Sea-Air-Space exposition at National Harbor, Md., a full scale mock-up of Northrop Grumman’s MQ-8C, the unmanned platform that is to succeed the MQ-8B,...

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Third-Generation Tilt-rotor V-280 by Bell

Third-Generation Tilt-rotor V-280 by Bell

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Nov , 2013

At the annual US Army Aviation symposium, Quad-A, Bell’s V-280 Valor third generation tilt-rotor helicopter was unveiled by John Garrison, President and CEO, Bell Helicopter. The V-280 is...

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US Army - UAH to Collaborate on Developing Next-Gen UAS

US Army - UAH to Collaborate on Developing Next-Gen UAS

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Nov , 2013

The US Army’s Unmanned Aircraft Systems Project Management Office (PM UAS) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) to promote the development...

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USAF to Launch $555 Million Unmanned Modernization Project

USAF to Launch $555 Million Unmanned Modernization Project

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Nov , 2013

Northrop Grumman has been awarded a $555.6 million contract to modernize the USAF’s fleet of Global Hawk Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). The Department of Defense (DoD) stated that the...

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Researchers Unveil Thought-Controlled Drone

Researchers Unveil Thought-Controlled Drone

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Nov , 2013

Researchers at the University of Minnesota have revealed a drone that can be controlled merely by thought. Published in the Journal of Neuro Engineering, the project has implications in everything...

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Successor to the Blackhawk?

Successor to the Blackhawk?

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Nov , 2013

Looking to purchase its next high-speed helicopter, the US Army has recently chosen the JMR MPS design put forth by AVX Aircraft Company, for its Joint Multi-Role Technology Demonstrator (JMR-TD)...

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US Navy’s First F-35C Delivered by Lockheed Martin

US Navy’s First F-35C Delivered by Lockheed Martin

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Nov , 2013

Lockheed Martin has also delivered the first CF-6, the Lockheed Martin F-35C Lightning II Navy Carrier Variant (CV) aircraft at Strike Fighter Squadron 101 at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. The CF-6...

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Payback Time Pakistan

Payback Time Pakistan

By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Nov , 2013

Following the US drone strike killing Pakistan Taliban Chief Hakimillah Mehsud, it was hilarious to watch the somber faced Interior Minister of Pakistan accusing the US of scuttling efforts...

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China's Asian Age Depends on Spliting India?

China's Asian Age Depends on Spliting India?

By: Danvir Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Nov , 2013

Zhan Lue, in his article published by the China International Institute for Strategic Studies on 8 August 2009 titled “If China takes a little action, the so called Great Indian Federation can...

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The Chinese Incursion: Need to Introspect

The Chinese Incursion: Need to Introspect

By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa | Issue: Vol. 28.2 Apr-Jun 2013 | Date: 04 Nov , 2013

Robert Kaplan in his book “The Revenge of Geography” suggests that, “India’s rivalry with China is not like the one with Pakistan: it is more abstract, less emotional, and (far more...

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Teeth to Tail Ratio: Looking beyond the Obvious

Teeth to Tail Ratio: Looking beyond the Obvious

By: Maj Gen Dhruv C Katoch | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 03 Nov , 2013

`  For India, a country struggling to find its soul after centuries of foreign domination, the primary strategic objective would of necessity, remain the human development of its people. While...

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India- China: BDCA Unexplained

India- China: BDCA Unexplained

By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Nov , 2013

Following the signing of the BDCA between India and China, much has been written. The follow up official explanation extols great strides having been made by introducing the four ‘concepts’...

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US-India Defence Trade: Sizing up the competition

US-India Defence Trade: Sizing up the competition

By: Col Woolf P Gross | Issue: Vol. 27.2 Apr-Jun 2012 | Date: 30 Oct , 2013

American defence suppliers realise that India is perhaps the largest potential market open to them in the world today. But so do all the competition. This is not a market in which to make a quick...

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Western Fleet of Indian Navy manoeuvers in littorals off Gujarat and Maharashtra

Western Fleet of Indian Navy manoeuvers in littorals off Gujarat and Maharashtra

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Oct , 2013

A large scale annual operational exercise of the Western Naval Command of the Indian Navy will conclude tomorrow off the littorals of Gujarat and Maharashtra. The week long exercise termed...

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North-East India: Its place in the National Security Calculus

North-East India: Its place in the National Security Calculus

By: PM Heblikar | Issue: Vol. 28.3 Jul-Sep 2013 | Date: 29 Oct , 2013

There has been no major change in the military architecture in India’s Northeast region since 1962. In a strategic sense, India has remained more in a defensive posture all along the sensitive...

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Disaster Management: Why the Army continues to take the Lead

Disaster Management: Why the Army continues to take the Lead

By: Lt Gen Vijay Oberoi | Issue: Vol. 28.3 Jul-Sep 2013 | Date: 28 Oct , 2013

Conceptually, the armed forces ought to be called to aid the civil authorities only when the situation is beyond the capability of the civil administration. In practice, however, the armed forces...

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Boeing delivers Indian Air Force’s 4th C-17 Globemaster III

Boeing delivers Indian Air Force’s 4th C-17 Globemaster III

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Oct , 2013

The Indian Air Force’s (IAF) fourth Boeing C-17 Globemaster III departs for India from Long Beach on Oct. 19, keeping the company on track to deliver a total of five advanced airlifters to the...

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IAF launches its 3 G WCDMA Cellular Network Project

IAF launches its 3 G WCDMA Cellular Network Project

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Oct , 2013

The Indian Air Force launched its 3 G Cellular Network named AFCEL (Air Force Cellular) today, becoming first among the services to have commissioned its own captive 3 G network. Inaugurated by...

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