Articles in Issues
Airbus Military delivers final A330 MRTT to Royal Australian Air Force
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Dec , 2012
Airbus Military has formally delivered the fifth and final new generation A330 MRTT multi-role tanker transport ordered by the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF).The handover of the aircraft, the...
India’s youth power serious liability if it takes wrong turn!
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Dec , 2012
In 1947, our population was 350 million. As per the 2011 census it stood at 1.02 billion. Today we already are 1.21 billion constituting 17.3 percent of world population, implying every sixth...
Action plan to deal with Maoist Insurgency
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Nov , 2012
Start a crash programme for the development of road and telecommunications infrastructure in the entire tribal belt of Central India. The Chinese realised that without effective road and rail...
The Maldivian Shock
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Nov , 2012
While writing the history of Indian diplomacy 25 years hence, any dispassionate historian will agree that the Manmohan Singh government’s neighbourhood policy has been a monumental failure. It...
Expanding the Idea of Asia
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Nov , 2012
As economic power shifts increasingly to Asia and affects global political equations, adddressing security issues in the region becomes more pressing. Can the often discussed pan-Asian security...
Army’s most critical deficiency: Good Generals?
By: Lt Gen KK Khanna, PVSM, AVSM** (Retd) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Nov , 2012
A lot has been written about Generals in the recent past. Not because of in-house introspection or internal check but because misdeeds were exposed in the Media. Lack of internal audit is a cause...
Saab appoints Niklas Nieminen as Saab India Managing Director
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Nov , 2012
Defence and security company Saab announces the appointment of Niklas Nieminen as Managing Director of Saab India Technologies Pvt Ltd from November 1. The appointment has come on the back of a...
Cassidian unveils the portable DXT3p TETRA switch
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Nov , 2012
DXT3p brings full set of TETRA features and high capacity for temporary and mobile networks Suitcase size and lightweight: one person can carry it if necessary Lower power consumption of only...
Helicopters in Special Operations
By: Gp Capt AK Sachdev | Issue: Vol. 27.4 Oct-Dec 2012 | Date: 26 Nov , 2012
By definition, Special Operations are those that are executed independently or in conjunction with conventional military operations with the aim to achieve a political or military objective where...
The Future of Next Generation Unmanned Aerial System
By: Air Marshal BN Gokhale | Issue: Vol 26.2 Apr-Jun 2011 | Date: 24 Nov , 2012
Having celebrated the centenary of manned aviation just eight years ago, it will be time to celebrate the 100th anniversary of unmanned aviation on March 6, 2018. Unmanned aviation encompasses a...
AFSPA : Soldiers clear, but is everyone else ?
By: Maj Gen Rajendra Prakash | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Nov , 2012
With Kashmir Valley on the boil, the prolific public debate on the ‘Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act’ (AFSPA) has taken on an unusual stridency. But a debate which is swayed by emotion,...
Syria: Clear and present danger
By: Col Amar Ramdasani | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Nov , 2012
Syria has remained in the clutches of a repressive minority dominated regime led by the Al Asad family since 1970. Though, the Asad regime had violently suppressed an armed uprising led by the...
China to Build Nuclear Reactors in the UK
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol. 27.4 Oct-Dec 2012 | Date: 22 Nov , 2012
Chinese nuclear firms are reported to be weighing a plan of investing $54.5 billion in building up to five nuclear reactors in the UK. Chinese officials from the nuclear industry including the...
First Scorpene Submarine by 2015
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol. 27.4 Oct-Dec 2012 | Date: 22 Nov , 2012
India is expected to commission its first Scorpene submarine being developed by French naval construction group DCNS, by 2015. The state-owned Mazagon Dock Limited (MDL) is producing six SSK...
India Capable of Making Long Range Missiles
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol. 27.4 Oct-Dec 2012 | Date: 22 Nov , 2012
As per official sources, India is capable of developing missiles that can hit targets located more than 8,000 km away. “We will develop it as and when we see a need to develop a missile longer...
Procurement of Transport Aircraft by IAF
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol. 27.4 Oct-Dec 2012 | Date: 22 Nov , 2012
The Indian Ministry of Defence has cleared a proposal worth over Rs 12,000 crore for the procurement of 56 transport aircraft for the Indian Air Force. The new aircraft would replace its fleet of...
Indian Navy’s Indigenous Aircraft Carrier
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol. 27.4 Oct-Dec 2012 | Date: 21 Nov , 2012
The Indian Navy’s first Indigenous Aircraft Carrier (IAC) to be christened ‘INS Vikrant’ will not be ready before 2017, more than three years behind schedule. Although its design was...
Enhanced BrahMos Missile Test Fired
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol. 27.4 Oct-Dec 2012 | Date: 21 Nov , 2012
In July this year, India test fired supersonic BrahMos missile from the Interim Test Range at Chandipur in Odisha’s Balasore district. Jointly developed by India and Russia, the cruise missile...
First Boeing C-17 Globemaster III for the IAF
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol. 27.4 Oct-Dec 2012 | Date: 21 Nov , 2012
The first of the ten Boeing C-17 Globemaster III Strategic Airlift aircraft ordered by the IAF under the Foreign Military Sales programme of the US government in a deal worth $4.1 billion, is...
Boeing Completes X-48C Test Flight
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol. 27.4 Oct-Dec 2012 | Date: 21 Nov , 2012
Boeing completed a successful test flight of its remotely piloted X-48C blended wing body aircraft at Edwards Air Force Base in California’s Mojave Desert. The X-48C is a scale model of a...