Articles in Issues
Boeing Opens New Parts Processing Center at Portland Site
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Aug , 2012
Boeing celebrated the opening of its new parts processing center and building expansion in Gresham, Ore., a suburb of Portland. Employing about 1,800 people, Boeing Portland is an ISO...
Lockheed Martin to authorize Canada’s Cascade Aerospace as a C-130 heavy...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Aug , 2012
Lockheed Martin announced that at the 50th anniversary Abbotsford International Air Show that Cascade Aerospace will be authorized as a C-130 Heavy Maintenance Center (HMC) – only the second...
The Winnable War!
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol. 23.4 Oct-Dec 2008 | Date: 11 Aug , 2012
The British nearly gave up war in Afghanistan recently and instead wanted dialogue with Al-Qaeda. Washington termed it defeatist and subsequently London rescinded the suggestion. The stalemate in...
Navy's online Financial Management System to be launched by the Defence Minister
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Aug , 2012
The Defence Minister Mr AK Antony will, tomorrow, dedicate the Indian Navy’s Financial Information System (FIS) to the nation in a ceremony at New Delhi. The Indian Navy,in a first amongst all...
India’s defence ties with Europe
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Aug , 2012
To appreciate better the subject of India’s defence relations with Europe some reflections of a general nature would be pertinent. The point needs to be made right at the start that India does...
Lt Gen MMS Rai takes over as GOC Desert Corps
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Aug , 2012
Lt Gen Man Mohan Singh Rai, took over as GOC Desert Corps on 09 August 2012. Lt Gen Rai succeeds Lt Gen Philip Campose, who has proceeded on posting to Army Headquarters. General Rai is an...
An incredible story of indiscipline
By: Gp. Capt. U.G. Kartha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Aug , 2012
Eastern Air Force 1976. A Tale Of What Not To Do The dark, ominous, thunder heads had been rising from the depths of Subansary valley all morning. The orographic winds pushed them up the slopes...
The Chinese Way
By: Prof. Priyadarshi Mukherji | Issue: Vol 20.4 Oct-Dec 2005 | Date: 09 Aug , 2012
Just ten days before the founding of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), on 21 September 1949, in his opening address at the First Plenary Session of the Chinese People’s Political...
Defence Procurement: A procedure sans policy
By: Air Marshal BK Pandey | Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 08 Aug , 2012
“There is an imperative need to rationalise the Defence Procurement Procedure so that it serves the purpose of a facilitator, and not an impediment to the acquisition of defence...
Boeing Demonstrates Autonomous Ship-based Capability of Unmanned Little Bird...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Aug , 2012
The Boeing Unmanned Little Bird H-6U successfully performed 14 autonomous takeoffs and landings from a ship during flight tests in July, a significant milestone for a medium-size...
Modernisation of the Indian Navy - 2020
By: Admiral Madhvendra Singh | Issue: Vol 20.4 Oct-Dec 2005 | Date: 08 Aug , 2012
“Modernisation” of a Navy is a continuous process – and each major upgradation takes time and needs to be planned well in advance. The “Great White Fleet” which circum-navigated the...
Barred by Islamic countries, Rohinya Muslims sneaking into India
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Aug , 2012
Mr.Tomas Ojea Quintana, a UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights, completed on August 4,2012, a six-day visit to Myanmar to study allegations of violations of the human rights of its ethnic...
Afghanistan: Clash of the titans
By: Vikram Sood | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Aug , 2012
The US-led war against Iraq in 2003 was never really about Saddam Hussein’s nuclear weapons programme or the presence of al-Qaeda in that country. It was about gaining control over Iraq’s oil....
Pakistan's offensive against the Taliban
By: Lt Gen Vijay Oberoi | Issue: Vol 24.3 Jul-Sep 2009 | Date: 03 Aug , 2012
The Pakistan Army itself hardly fights. Instead, it directs others to do its bidding! The Pakistani generals consider the Taliban and other terrorist groups as the vanguard of the nation’s...
Elbit Systems of America showcases the Skylark
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Aug , 2012
Elbit Systems of America, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Elbit Systems Ltd., will showcase the Skylark® I-LE Block II’s capabilities at the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems...
Arab Spring: Is India being blackmailed?
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Aug , 2012
As an old student of Indian foreign policy, I have always viewed “nonalignment” as a tool of pursuing India’s national interests. Nonalignment can never be a goal, which, unfortunately, many...
Boeing Completes Major Join of India's 1st C-17 Airlifter
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Aug , 2012
Program on schedule to deliver strategic and humanitarian capabilities Boeing in Long Beach integrated the forward, center and aft fuselages and the wing assembly of India’s first C-17...
INS Baaz commissioned as first Naval Air Station in Nicobar Islands
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Aug , 2012
The Naval Air Station at Campbell Bay on Great Nicobar Island, was today commissioned as Indian Naval Ship ‘Baaz’ by Admiral Nirmal Verma, Chairman Chiefs of Staff Committee and the Chief of...
1965 War:True Story of 2/Lt Baljit Singh- II
By: Colonel Baljit Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Aug , 2012
The incidents narrated ahead are based on the experience of 2nd Lieutenant Baljit Singh, 3rd Madras Infantry Battalion, 69th Infantry Brigade, who had participated in the legendary 1965 Indo-Pak...
OP TOPAC: The Kashmir Imbroglio - II
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol 4.2 Jul-Dec 1989 | Date: 30 Jul , 2012
Pakistan’s Aims and Plans – II It appears that Pakistan’s ‘Plan-X’ was prepared after a widely read fortnightly of New Delhi reporting on Exercise Brass Tacks gave brief comments on...