Articles in Issues

Dead soldiers guard international border!

Dead soldiers guard international border!

By: Shib Shankar Chatterjee | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 21 Dec , 2012

Inmates of the Border Security Force (BSF) of Khalpara International Border Out Post (IBOP) have been facing a number of unwanted incidents for a long time. This came to light after an incident...

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Demilitarizing Siachen: Looking for a Soft Option?

Demilitarizing Siachen: Looking for a Soft Option?

By: Air Marshal B D Jayal | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Dec , 2012

At what is commonly referred to as Siachen, India hold the dominating high ground on Saltoro Ridge. To the west of this is Gilgit and Baltistan, which is proposed to be leased by Pakistan to...

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MEXSAT Bicentenario Satellite Sends 1st Signals from Space

MEXSAT Bicentenario Satellite Sends 1st Signals from Space

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Dec , 2012

Satellite built by Boeing partner Orbital is 1st of 3-satellite order 2 Boeing-built satellites for MEXSAT will further strengthen communications services in Mexico The MEXSAT Bicentenario...

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Elbit Systems will upgrade Israeli Air Force C-130H Transport Aircraft

Elbit Systems will upgrade Israeli Air Force C-130H Transport Aircraft

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Dec , 2012

Under the project, the aircraft will be modernized with a digital cockpit, head-up display system and a new radar Elbit Systems announced that it has been awarded a contract by the Israel...

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Pretending “Soldiers”

Pretending “Soldiers”

By: Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee | Issue: Vol. 27.4 Oct-Dec 2012 | Date: 19 Dec , 2012

Playing a ‘soldier’ has always been a very enticing engagement amongst children. Even grown-ups of prominent status like the tag of being a ‘military- man’, as evidenced by their urge to...

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Rheinmetall successfully tests 50kW high-energy laser weapon

Rheinmetall successfully tests 50kW high-energy laser weapon

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Dec , 2012

Rheinmetall has successfully tested its new 50kW high-energy weapon technology demonstrator. Conducted at the end of November, the test encompassed the entire operational sequence from target...

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Boeing Delivers 2 Nanosatellites to US Air Force

Boeing Delivers 2 Nanosatellites to US Air Force

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Dec , 2012

SENSE vehicles will validate nanosatellite use in military space Boeing has delivered two Space Environmental NanoSat Experiment (SENSE) satellites to the U.S. Air Force that will help assess the...

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Cobham provide Passenger Audio Systems for Embraer KC-390 Military Transport...

Cobham provide Passenger Audio Systems for Embraer KC-390 Military Transport...

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Dec , 2012

Cobham has been selected by Embraer Defense and Security to provide the Passenger Address System (PAS) for the KC-390 military transport aircraft to ensure broadcast announcements are...

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Boeing Names Michael Kurth as VP/GM, Unmanned Airborne Systems Programs

Boeing Names Michael Kurth as VP/GM, Unmanned Airborne Systems Programs

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Dec , 2012

Company veteran Michael Kurth will oversee Boeing’s unmanned airborne systems as of Jan. 1. Kurth, currently managing director of Boeing Defence UK Ltd. (BDUK), will relocate to St. Louis as vice...

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Waging a Different Kind of War

Waging a Different Kind of War

By: Air Marshal B D Jayal | Issue: Courtesy: The Telegraph | Date: 17 Dec , 2012

In 2009, the president of India, the supreme commander of its armed forces, created history by flying in an IAF Sukhoi combat aircraft. A gesture which, apart from being daring, communicated to...

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Tank Ammunition from Russia

Tank Ammunition from Russia

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol. 27.4 Oct-Dec 2012 | Date: 17 Dec , 2012

The Indian Army is currently facing a critical shortage of ammunition for the Indian Army’s fleet of T-90 and T-72 tanks after the blacklisting of the supplier of the Fin Stabilized Armour...

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Boeing and Embraer to Partner on KC-390

Boeing and Embraer to Partner on KC-390

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol. 27.4 Oct-Dec 2012 | Date: 17 Dec , 2012

Boeing and Embraer have entered into an agreement to collaborate on the KC-390 program, under which the companies will share some technical knowledge and evaluate markets where they may join their...

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Rafale MMRCA for the IAF

Rafale MMRCA for the IAF

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol. 27.4 Oct-Dec 2012 | Date: 17 Dec , 2012

India’s hunt for the acquisition of 126 Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft (MMRCA) is coming to a close with the Ministry of Defence giving the green signal to the evaluation process that led to...

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Surveillance Drones and National Security

Surveillance Drones and National Security

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol. 27.4 Oct-Dec 2012 | Date: 17 Dec , 2012

The increase in acquisition of unmanned aerial surveillance drones by the government is paying dividends for law enforcement authorities. Yet it is exacerbating angst over terrorist attacks from...

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1971: Making Bangladesh a reality - I

1971: Making Bangladesh a reality - I

By: Major K.C. Praval | Issue: Book Excerpt: Indian Army After Independence | Date: 16 Dec , 2012

The Indian cabinet met on 28 April 1971. General Manekshaw was told to attend the meeting as he was Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee. Without much ado, he was told to take charge of the...

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Military Application of Unmanned Rotary Wing Aircraft

Military Application of Unmanned Rotary Wing Aircraft

By: Gp Capt AK Sachdev | Issue: Vol. 27.4 Oct-Dec 2012 | Date: 14 Dec , 2012

The term Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is being slowly replaced by UAS as in many of its variegated missions, the aircraft is not carrying any payload from one place to another and is thus not a...

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Boeing Demos Unmanned Little Bird for Republic of Korea Army

Boeing Demos Unmanned Little Bird for Republic of Korea Army

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Dec , 2012

Affordable pilotless technology could expand ROKA MD 500 helicopters’ mission capabilities Boeing demonstrated affordable unmanned aircraft technology that could be integrated onto Republic of...

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Cyber Warfare: The New Threat

Cyber Warfare: The New Threat

By: Air Vice Marshal AK Tiwary | Issue: Vol. 26.4 Oct-Dec 2011 | Date: 14 Dec , 2012

The cyber warriors will identify own networks weakness which will be followed up by regular patch up of vulnerabilities. In addition their actual target could include blowing up electric...

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Indigenous Warship Building

Indigenous Warship Building

By: Lt Cdr Kalesh Mohanan | Issue: Vol. 27.2 Apr-Jun 2012 | Date: 14 Dec , 2012

A major objective of the 1969 – 1974 Defence Plan was self reliance in the field of warship design and warship production. The aim was to meet the Navy’s requirements through indigenous efforts...

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NORTHROP: Achieving Partnership and Growth

NORTHROP: Achieving Partnership and Growth

By: Commodore G Sharma | Issue: Vol 26.1 Jan-Mar 2011 | Date: 14 Dec , 2012

When Leroy Grumman founded the Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation on Long Island, New York, in 1929, little did he realize that the company would still be going strong more than 80 years...

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