Articles in Issues
Unification of China?
By: Maj Gen Sheru Thapliyal, PhD | Issue: Vol. 26.3 July - Sept 2011 | Date: 28 Sep , 2011
China’s economic growth, growing diplomatic leverage, and improvements in the PLA’s military capabilities, contrasted with Taiwan’s modest defence efforts, have the effect of shifting the...
US-Pakistan Tensions: China's Cautious Stance
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Sep , 2011
The Chinese media have started informing the Chinese people of the tensions in Pakistan’s ties with the US without any editorial comment so far.There have been no comments from the spokesperson...
A sharper focus: Rheinmetall Electro-Optics premieres at DSEi 2011
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Sep , 2011
Rheinmetall Defence has welded its electro-optical activities into a new division. Known as Rheinmetall Electro-Optics, the division has now made its international debut at this year’s DSEi fair...
CII and Swedish Security and Defence Industry signed MoU in Public Security...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Sep , 2011
Swedish Security and Defence Industry (SOFF) and Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to promote co-operation between India and Sweden in public...
US-Pakistan: Search for Mutually Face-Saving Option Continues
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Sep , 2011
The search for a mutually face-saving option in the dramatic turn of events in the relations between the US and Pakistan has continued over the week-end. The dramatic turn came following the...
Beijing Irked by Myanmar Decision to Suspend Dam Construction in Kachin State
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Sep , 2011
The Government of Myanmar announced on September 30,2011, the suspension of its plans to build, with Chinese assistance, a massive dam on the Irrawaddy River in the Northern Kachin State. The...
Is Nazi China emerging?
By: Rajinder Puri | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Sep , 2011
For years I have maintained that China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is a government within a government. I have repeatedly pointed out that the actions of the Beijing government betray...
Boeing CHAMP Missile Completes 1st Flight Test
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Sep , 2011
Boeing, Air Force Research Laboratory team on nonlethal microwave weapon The Boeing Company and the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory Counter-electronics High-powered Microwave Advanced...
How Pakistan's Proxy War Began - II
By: B Raman | Issue: Book Excerpts: A Terrorist State as a Frontline Ally | Date: 23 Sep , 2011
The HUM: The Harkat-ul-Ansar (HUA) of Pakistan was started in central Punjab in Pakistan in the early 1980s by certain religious elements under the name the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (HUM) with...
Sagem to modernize navigation system on South Korea's KSS-1 submarines
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Sep , 2011
After a hard-fought international competition, Sagem (Safran group) was chosen by the South Korean Defense Ministry’s Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) to modernize the...
Boeing, US Army Celebrate $130 Million Investment in CH-47 Chinook...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Sep , 2011
The Boeing Company and the U.S. Army celebrated the opening of the newly renovated H-47 Chinook manufacturing facility today. The event coincided with the 50th anniversary of the H-47 Chinook’s...
How Pakistan's Proxy War Began - III
By: B Raman | Issue: Book Excerpts: A Terrorist State as a Frontline Ally | Date: 22 Sep , 2011
The Markaz and its Lashkar: The Markaz Oawa al Irshad (MOI) was founded in 1987, at the inspiration of Osama bin Laden, by Zafar Iqbal and Hafiz Mohammed Saeed of the University of Engineering...
IAF flying into the Future
By: Air Commodore Jasjit Singh | Issue: Vol 22.4 Oct-Dec 2007 | Date: 21 Sep , 2011
As one of the less than half a dozen air forces of the world which have remained independent from the very birth, the Indian Air Force has rendered a yeoman service in the defence of the country...
German Army orders KMW's 31 MUNGO 2 Multi-purpose vehicles
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Sep , 2011
Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW), Europe´s market leader for highly protected wheeled and tracked vehicles, has received an order from the German Army for the assembly and delivery of 31 further...
DCNS conducts further sea trials with BPC Dixmude
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Sep , 2011
DCNS began new sea trials on 19 September with BPC Dixmude, the French Navy’s third Mistral-class force projection and command vessel, which was ordered by the French defence procurement agency...
F-35 Program Completes Static Structural Testing
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Sep , 2011
Lockheed Martin’s F-35 program has successfully completed static structural testing, achieving one of five milestones established by the Joint Program Office for 2011. Static structural testing...
Boeing forecasts strong need for Aviation Personnel in Asia Pacific
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Sep , 2011
Boeing forecasts the Asia Pacific region will require hundreds of thousands of new commercial airline pilots and technicians over the next 20 years to support airline fleet modernization and the...
Develop Cutting Edge Defense Industries
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol 24.2 Apr-Jun 2009 | Date: 18 Sep , 2011
< !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> To develop cutting edge defense industries, New Delhi must eschew the inherent divisive tendencies. Instead of consolidating Aero India 2009 as the foremost Asian aerospace show, we reduced its...
China: Checkmating India in Afghanistan
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Sep , 2011
China has shown interest in the construction of two railway lines—-one in Pakistan via the Gilgit-Baltistan region and the other in Afghanistan. While the railway line through Gilgit-Baltistan,...
The Af-Pak boundary is not a border
By: Lt Gen JFR Jacob | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Sep , 2011
There has been a heated debate on the validity and legality of Sir Henry Mortimer Durand’s line, a line some 2,640 kilometres long between former British India and Afghanistan, which now...