Articles in Issues
DCNS begins sea trials with FREMM multimission frigate for Royal Moroccan Navy
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Apr , 2013
The FREMM frigate built for the Royal Moroccan Navy put to sea for the first time on 17 April. This key milestone marks the launch of sea trials, which will be conducted over the next few weeks...
Cassidian produces the world's most advanced Eurofighter
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Interview in www.sify.com | Date: 18 Apr , 2013
The Eurofighter IPA 8 (Instrumented Production Aircraft 8) test aircraft has achieved an important production milestone at Cassidian in Manching: with the mounting of the right wing, the...
Aero-Engines for Future Military Aircraft
By: Air Marshal Sumit Mukherjee | Issue: Vol. 28.1 Jan-Mar 2013 | Date: 18 Apr , 2013
The development of aero-engines over the years has followed a path of rising propulsive and thermal efficiency. The design innovation of the ‘by-pass’ concept to enhance performance and...
Indian Military in Afghanistan
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 17 Apr , 2013
A study released by the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, USA on 14 Jan 2013 has totaled the direct spending by the US on the war in Afghanistan for the period FY2001 to FY2013 as...
MBDA Marte missile release trial from Airbus Military C295
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Apr , 2013
Airbus Military and MBDA have successfully demonstrated the release of an instrumented Marte MK2/S anti-ship inert missile installed under the wing of the C295 maritime patrol aircraft. This...
Afghanistan - Future Uncertain
By: Vikram Sood | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Apr , 2013
Events in Afghanistan had gathering momentum in March and quite apparently preparations for end 2014 were now looking serious and urgent. Closely following the visit of Defence Secretary Chuck...
Cyber War: A grave cause of concern
By: Col (Dr) PK Vasudeva | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Apr , 2013
Cyber warfare refers to politically motivated hacking to conduct sabotage and espionage. It is a form of information warfare sometimes seen as analogous to conventional warfare although this...
Army: Wings Must Grow
By: Lt Gen Vinay Shankar | Issue: Vol. 28.1 Jan-Mar 2013 | Date: 13 Apr , 2013
The government approval for the Aviation arm of the Indian Army to acquire attack helicopters is the outcome of decades of dialogue, representations, haggling and persistence. The resistance by...
How to Resolve the Problem of Roles and Missions
By: Air Marshal B D Jayal | Issue: Courtesy: The Telegraph | Date: 11 Apr , 2013
A national daily recently reported that highly classified documents pertaining to weapon system requirements and acquisition plans of all the three services along with those of surveillance...
Why the North Korean stand off?
By: Col R Hariharan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Apr , 2013
There are both contemporary and historical reasons behind the North Korean threat to launch an offensive against South Korea and strike at U.S. bases in Guam and Hawaii. North Korea (Democratic...
Airlift Capability of the Indian Air Force
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol. 28.1 Jan-Mar 2013 | Date: 09 Apr , 2013
In the context of a resurgent and globalised economy, India’s security interests in the future would no longer be confined to its national boundaries or be limited to the region between the Gulf...
Countering Artillery Shells, Rockets and Missiles
By: Maj Gen PK Chakravorty | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 08 Apr , 2013
Victory in a conflict in the current century will be decided by Asymmetry in Fire Power. Israel and the US have constantly used technology to multiply their capabilities. The Hamas operating...
Securing the Eagle’s Nest: Airfield and Infrastructure Security
By: Gp Capt B Menon | Issue: Vol. 28.1 Jan-Mar 2013 | Date: 06 Apr , 2013
Foolproof security of an operational base has been a vital prerequisite for the successful conduct of war. History of warfare reveals that neglect of this vital aspect has invariably led to...
MBDA and Thales extend their cooperation on Common Anti-Air Modular Missile
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Apr , 2013
The core Team Complex Weapons (Team CW) air defence missile development programme – the Common Anti-air Modular Missile (CAMM) for the Future Local Anti-Air Defence System (FLAADS) – has been...
Boeing completes Preliminary Design Review for connection between CST-100...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Apr , 2013
3rd on-schedule Commercial Crew milestone of 2013 The structure that will join the Boeing Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 spacecraft to an Atlas V rocket has successfully completed a...
BRICS: A wall for some and a platform for others
By: Vikram Sood | Issue: Courtesy: MidDay Mumbai | Date: 05 Apr , 2013
Success at multilateral events like the recently concluded BRICS-5 summit at Durban would be difficult to measure. Nevertheless, members of BRICS must have done something right to have attracted...
India: Strategic Challenges and Responses
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Apr , 2013
At the outset let me clarify that I will discuss the subject primarily from the foreign policy and security point of view. Many believe that strategic challenges should now include those...
High-Tech Naval Base to counter Chinese Expanding Navys
By: Col (Dr) PK Vasudeva | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Apr , 2013
The strategic ambitions of China in the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea have received a giant boost with its assuming charge of the Gwadar Port from Pakistan after taking charge of port...
Impact of Pakistan's TNWs
By: Maj Gen PK Chakravorty | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 02 Apr , 2013
Pakistan’s nuclear programme is Indo centric and is based on offensive usage of nuclear weapons. On 19 April 2011, Pakistan successfully tested the Hatf IX, named NASR a solid fuelled...
New Laser Weapon System from Boeing
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Apr , 2013
American aerospace and defence major Boeing is gearing up to test a new land-based 10KW solid-state laser weapon called the High Energy Laser Mobile Demonstrator (HEL MD) that can shoot down...