Articles in Issues
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...
Modular design and construction of warships
By: Cdr Douglas C Deans | Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 13 Jul , 2012
Ships are built in the shortest time when a series of specific pre-planned Modules are assembled like a Lego set. A Module is an engineered assembly of a portion of the ship Platform that...
Sri Lanka: Disturbing Questions
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Jul , 2012
Some years ago, I was in Sri Lankan capital Colombo. On learning that my home state happens to be Odisha despite my Delhi-upbringing, all of a sudden, the general manager of the hotel where I was...
Honeytrap: Media bashing of the Army on false pretext
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Jul , 2012
On July 11, 2012 at approximately 6 pm one of the most responsible news channel in India claimed that an officer of Indian Army was caught in a honeytrap in a five-star hotel by the...
Boeing CH-147F Chinook for Canada successfully completes 1st Flight
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Jul , 2012
The new Boeing CH-147F Medium-to-Heavy-Lift Helicopter for Canada is progressing ahead of schedule after making its first flight on June 24. “Boeing and the Canadian Department of National Defence...
Lockheed Martin extend the Stalker UAS flight time to more than 48 hours
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Jul , 2012
Lockheed Martin and LaserMotive, Inc, demonstrated the capabilities of an innovative laser power system to extend the Stalker Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) flight time to more than 48 hours. This...
Boeing's P-8I aircraft for the Indian Navy began its flight test program
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Jul , 2012
Boeing’s first P-8I aircraft for the Indian Navy began its official flight test program July 7, taking off from Boeing Field in Seattle at 9:15 a.m. and landing three hours and 49 minutes...
Lockheed Martin delivers four F-35s to US Air Force and Marine Corps
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Jul , 2012
With the delivery of four Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II aircraft since June 29, an important milestone was achieved as the Department of Defense now possesses more operational-coded F-35s...
MBDA Firing Success Confirms Brimstone’s Status as the Anti-FIAC Solution
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Jul , 2012
The first firing of an operational Dual Mode Brimstone missile against a Fast In-Shore Attack Craft (FIAC) proved to be a resounding success and a clear demonstration of the unmatched operational...
Boeing Offers Medium-sized Maritime Surveillance Aircraft
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Jul , 2012
Low-risk, cost-effective solution leverages P-8 and AWACS technologies Boeing announced that it is offering a medium-sized Maritime Surveillance Aircraft (MSA) to the global market. MSA builds on...
Lockheed Martin and Marshall Aerospace sign agreement to increase C-130...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Jul , 2012
Lockheed Martin has signed an agreement authorizing Marshall Aerospace to become the world’s first commercial company to install C-130 Center Wing Boxes (CWB). Marshall Aerospace is also the...
Indo-Afghan Strategic Partnership
By: Air Marshal BK Pandey | Issue: Vol. 27.1 -Mar 2012 | Date: 10 Jul , 2012
The strategic partnership agreement between India and Afghanistan can be regarded as a game changer in the region and truly a landmark event. However, there are uncertainties and impediments that...
Nervous China may attack India!
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol 24.3 Jul-Sep 2009 | Date: 10 Jul , 2012
China will launch an attack on India before 2012. There are multiple reasons for a desperate Beijing to teach India the final lesson, thereby ensuring Chinese supremacy in Asia in this century....
Indo-US Partnership in Defence Industry
By: Air Marshal Raghu Rajan | Issue: Vol. 27.2 Apr-Jun 2012 | Date: 09 Jul , 2012
Arms sales and consequently, defence and bilateral relations during the Cold War were hampered by India’s fears about reliability of the US as an arms supplier as also by its sensitivity to the...
India-Pakistan: Yet another round of platitudes
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Jul , 2012
For those cynical about the dialogue process with Pakistan, the lack of substance in the joint statement issued after the latest round of Foreign Secretary level talks (July 4-5) confirms our...
The danger from China
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol 26.1 Jan-Mar 2011 | Date: 06 Jul , 2012
The multi-dimensional threat between 2011 and 2014 from China is real. Taken aback by screaming headlines in the media that nervous China may attack India in 2012, two former generals who...
Sagem’s Hammer air-to-ground guided weapon with laser terminal guidance...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Jul , 2012
French defense procurement agency DGA has successfully carried out the first qualification firing test of the laser terminal guidance version of the AASM Hammer modular air-to-ground weapon built...
The Talibanization of Kashmir
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Jul , 2012
The threat to Sikhs for conversion to Islam has upset the Hurriat leaders, both the Geelani and Umar Farooq factions. They have conveniently blamed the Indian intelligence agencies for this new...
A400M MSN6 visiting Farnborough Air Show on static display
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Jul , 2012
Based on the current flight test schedule and planning for the coming days, Airbus Military has decided to bring the first production representative example of the A400M – the MSN6 – to the...
Eurofighter Typhoon Securing Air Space Over London
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Jul , 2012
Eurofighter Typhoons of the Royal Air Force (RAF) will be on high alert during the Olympic Games in order to secure the air space over London. Prior to the start of this international event which...