Articles in Issues
Power and Proficiency: Future Military Engines
By: Gp Capt Joseph Noronha | Issue: Vol. 27.2 Apr-Jun 2012 | Date: 30 Jul , 2012
Very few companies in the world can claim to have mastered the art of producing high-performance military engines and most of them are in the United States and Europe. Russia and Europe lag behind...
OP TOPAC: The Kashmir Imbroglio - I
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol 4.2 Jul-Dec 1989 | Date: 29 Jul , 2012
IDR think-tank war-gamed and published in July 1989 the anticipated course of action by Pakistan in Kashmir under the title OP TOPAC.. This came true in the subsequent years!. We reproduce this...
How does China eye India’s aircraft carrier Vikramaditya
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Jul , 2012
Posted July 26, 2012 by admin in China Military News. The INS Vikramaditya aircraft carrier (former Admiral Gorshkov), which Russia refurbished for India, left its berth at the Sevmash shipyard in...
Turmoil in Bodoland
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Jul , 2012
Assam is burning as I write this. Ethnic clashes between the Bodo tribes (Hindus) and “Bengali Muslims” (most of them being immigrants) have already consumed 40 lives and resulted in...
Boeing F-15E Radar Modernization Program
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Jul , 2012
Boeing said the U.S. Air Force has granted the F-15E Radar Modernization Program (RMP) approval to begin Low Rate Initial Production 2 (LRIP 2) of 10 APG-82(V)1 Active Electronically Scanned Array...
Sagem and Thales create optronics joint venture, OPTROLEAD
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Jul , 2012
Sagem (Safran group) and Thales have announced the creation of OPTROLEAD, an equally-owned joint venture for optronics. The official signature creating the new company follows the original...
Boeing Delivers 2nd Production P-8A Poseidon Aircraft to US Navy
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Jul , 2012
Boeing delivered the second production P-8A Poseidon aircraft to the U.S. Navy. The P-8A is one of 13 low rate initial production (LRIP) maritime patrol aircraft that Boeing is building for the...
United Kingdom accepts first international Lockheed Martin F-35
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Jul , 2012
The United Kingdom accepted the first international Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II aircraft in a ceremony today with senior representatives of the U.K. Ministry of Defence and the U.S....
China’s growing assertiveness and shaping the Indian response
By: Lt Gen Kamal Davar (Retd) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Jul , 2012
“Indian elites show little evidence of having thought coherently and systematically about strategy.” – George Tanham Nearly 200 years back, Napoleon had prophetically stated that “ let...
DCNS and Pipavav team up to address India’s naval needs
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Jul , 2012
DCNS and Pipavav have decided to establish a strategic partnership for bringing DCNS technologies, methods and skills into Pipavav, India’s first and largest integrated defence company. The...
Is Colonel Purohit guilty?
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Vol. 23.4 Oct-Dec 2008 | Date: 18 Jul , 2012
The article was written one month prior to 26/11 and was published in Indian Defence Review issue No. 23.4 (Oct-Dec 2008) under the the title “Spare the Army“. Going by the selective and flip-flop...
Evolution of the Air-To-Air Missiles: Options for the IAF
By: Air Commodore KB Menon | Issue: Vol. 27.2 Apr-Jun 2012 | Date: 18 Jul , 2012
Cannons once again found their way into the design of fighter planes. The problem with cannons is that they had to be fired at aerial targets from the astern quarters and any manoeuvring by the...
Red Dragon in India’s North West
By: Lt Gen Kamal Davar (Retd) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Jul , 2012
Defence Secretary level talks between India and Pakistan held on 11-12 June 2012 at Islamabad for resolving the Siachen issue ended on expected lines with both nations sticking to their often...
2nd Boeing P-8I Aircraft for India Completes 1st Flight
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Jul , 2012
The second Boeing P-8I aircraft for the Indian Navy completed its initial flight on July 12, taking off from Renton Field at 3:29 p.m. and landing two hours and 14 minutes later at Boeing Field in...
Deliveries of key equipments for the Indian Scorpenes by DCNS
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Jul , 2012
SEC Industries and DCNS officially inaugurated new workshop facilities and delivered, after successful Factory Acceptance Tests, the cofferdam doors coamings for the Indian P75* Scorpene...
Iron Dome granted outstanding award by American Defense Manufacturers
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Jul , 2012
The American National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) has granted Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. an Outstanding Achievement Award for the development of “Iron Dome”. “Iron Dome” is a...
"Unwise to lift ban on Pak TV programmes," says former RAW officer
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Jul , 2012
In 1989, widespread demonstrations, some of them leading to violence, broke out in Jammu & Kashmir against the Government of India. That was the time when East Europe was in turmoil with...
A Diplomatic View of the MMRCA Deal
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Vol. 26.3 July - Sept 2011 | Date: 14 Jul , 2012
The Americans seemed to have proceeded on the assumption that with India placing orders for advanced US defence equipment such as 6 C-130J aircraft and 8 P-8I long range maritime patrol aircraft,...
India's Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP) prevents procurement
By: Lt Gen Vinay Shankar | Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 13 Jul , 2012
“A comparison with other defense industries would be in order to draw some relevant deductions. Take China, Turkey, South Africa, South Korea, Israel and closer home even Pakistan. We began at...
Agni-I Ballistic Missile Successfully Launched
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Jul , 2012
India’s 700 km range ballistic missile, ‘AGNI I’ was successfully launched today from the wheeler island off the coast of Odisha. It was a textbook launch meeting all mission objectives and...