Articles in Issues
India Russia: Strategic Relations
By: Air Marshal Narayan Menon | Issue: Vol 23.1 Jan-Mar 2008 | Date: 03 Dec , 2011
The India-Russia strategic relations with its embedded military ties have been, in the past 15 years, buffeted by the turbulence of international upheavals and domestic events. The collapse of...
Relief for the War Disabled
By: Lt Gen Vijay Oberoi | Issue: Vol 22.2 Apr-Jun 2007 | Date: 02 Dec , 2011
Compensation for disability incurred in war or war-like-situations is at present paltry and highly inadequate. Although slightly higher in some respects than what is given to those disabled due...
Boeing Opens Interiors Fabrication Facility in South Carolina
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Dec , 2011
Boeing celebrated the opening of its new Interiors Fabrication facility in North Charleston. The Interiors Responsibility Center South Carolina team will manufacture 787 interior parts including...
Patroller drone of Sagem successfully completed flight tests of long...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Dec , 2011
These 14 test flights, carried out at the Istres air force base in southern France from September 19 to October 21, met the following objectives: Qualification of the aircraft’s in-flight...
Australian Aerospace Delivers Final Tiger Helicopter to Defence
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Dec , 2011
A program to provide the Australian Defence Force (ADF) with an unrivalled armed reconnaissance helicopter capability achieved a major milestone with the delivery of the last production Tiger...
Boeing expanding Pilot Training Program in Africa
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Dec , 2011
Boeing is expanding its partnerships in Africa, announcing an agreement to jointly offer a comprehensive pilot training program with 43 Air School (Pty) Ltd., Africa’s largest flight training...
Lockheed Martin tests new scalable warhead on GMLRS-Plus rocket
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Dec , 2011
Lockheed Martin tested a new Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System-Plus (GMLRS+) ‘scalable effects’ warhead, which enables users to select the range of the warhead’s detonation power depending on...
Afghanistan: Strategic Alliance vs Strategic Depth
By: Lt Gen Harwant Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Dec , 2011
Historically, Afghanistan has been the most difficult country for military campaigns and equally difficult to govern. The nature of terrain, the climate and the tribes that inhabit the land make...
Bangladesh Army Chief visits India
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Dec , 2011
Chief of the Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal NAK Browne presenting memento to General Mohammed Abdul Mubeen, Chief of the Army Staff, Bangladesh at Air Headquarters (Vayu Bhawan) on 1st December...
1971 War: The Air Force in War-I
By: Maj Gen Sukhwant Singh | Issue: Book Excerpt: India's War since Independence | Date: 01 Dec , 2011
The public clamour for Indianisation of the armed forces in the early 1930s led to the establishment of the Indian Sandhurst Committee. Along with other recommendations the committee insisted...
1971 War: The Navy in War-I
By: Maj Gen Sukhwant Singh | Issue: Book Excerpt: India's War since Independence | Date: 01 Dec , 2011
In their heyday of empire building the British consolidated their possessions by the gun power of the Royal Navy. Being essentially a trading nation, they shipped raw materials from the colonies...
The March to Dacca - II
By: Maj Gen Sukhwant Singh | Issue: Book Excerpt: India's War since Independence | Date: 01 Dec , 2011
The unexpected speed of the operations towards Dacca in this sector emboldened the Army Commander to allot 340 Mountain Brigade Group, then engaged at Bogra under Thapan, to harden the punch...
The March to Dacca - III
By: Maj Gen Sukhwant Singh | Issue: Book Excerpt: India's War since Independence | Date: 01 Dec , 2011
Exploiting Niazi’s pessimistic conclusions about the outcome of the war, the Indians stepped up their psychological warfare. A personal message from Manekshaw was repeatedly beamed by All India...
Boeing upgrade the visual systems in the F-15C
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Nov , 2011
The Boeing Company received a $20 million contract in September from the U.S. Air Force to upgrade the visual systems in the F-15C Mission Training Centers. Twelve MTCs, located at Langley Air...
Kuwait Naval Forces renew partnership with DCI
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Nov , 2011
DCI, a service provider with activities on the entire spectrum of defense and domestic security, has a special partnership with the Kuwait Naval Forces that have entrusted DCI-NAVFCO for many...
Threat from China
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol 23.2 Apr-Jul 2008 | Date: 27 Nov , 2011
New Delhi’s portrayal of the humiliating defeat at the hands of Chinese in 1962 as ‘betrayal’ and ‘surprise’ is untrue. The pacifist Indian leadership that was crying hoarse from...
Eurofighter flying over UAE
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Nov , 2011
Clear blue skies, an RAF Typhoon, a Spartan C-27J, the world’s most famous aviation photographer and a team of enthusiastic pilots and crew – independently, they are all incredible assets at an...
Network Centricity comes to fore in Exercise Sudarshan Shakti
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Nov , 2011
Exercise Sudarshan Shakti, a joint exercise of Southern Army and South Western Air Command has entered its crucial phase. The training was progressively structured to build on from the smallest...
Avoidable Unpleasantness in India-China Relations
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Nov , 2011
Avoidable unpleasantness has recently crept into India-China relations over issues which should not have been over-dramatised by China thereby injecting a certain distrust into the relations...
New Country Director of Thales India
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Nov , 2011
Mr. Eric LENSEIGNE has taken over as the Country Director & Managing Director of Thales India Pvt. Ltd. He will be based in New Delhi. Eric holds Master’s Degrees in Electronic & Signal...