Articles in Issues
Military Power: The Task Ahead
By: Lt Gen SC Sardeshpande | Issue: Vol 23.1 Jan-Mar 2008 | Date: 29 Dec , 2010
Power means the sum total of capabilities, with the help of which things can be manipulated to one’s own advantage, be it individual or nation. Along the strands of capabilities is the power...
Indian Defence Offset Regime: Need for Reforms
By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman | Issue: Vol 23.1 Jan-Mar 2008 | Date: 29 Dec , 2010
In any highly competitive trade environment, every seller has to make his offer irresistible and more lucrative than those of others. This is the basic canon of marketing. International defence...
Offset Banking
By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman | Issue: Vol 23.1 Jan-Mar 2008 | Date: 29 Dec , 2010
Offset banking implies generation and accumulation of offset credits prior to the award of the main contract. A bank of offset credits is created in anticipation of getting contracts to defray...
Defence Offset Facilitation Agency
By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman | Issue: Vol 23.1 Jan-Mar 2008 | Date: 29 Dec , 2010
Defence Offset Facilitation Agency (DOFA) has been established under the Department of Defence Production (DDP) as a single window agency to facilitate implementation of the offset policy of the...
Commonly used terms in Defence Offsets
By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman | Issue: Vol 23.1 Jan-Mar 2008 | Date: 29 Dec , 2010
Offsets can broadly be termed as formal arrangements of trade, wherein a foreign supplier undertakes specified programmes with a view to compensate the buyer as regards his procurement...
Elbit to Supply EHUD Air Combat Maneuvering Instrumentation Systems
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Dec , 2010
Elbit Systems Ltd. announced that it was awarded an approximately $18 million contract, for the supply of an EHUD® Air Combat Maneuvering Instrumentation (ACMI) system for an Asian air force....
International Terrorism: A Perspective to Current Scenarios
By: Anand K Verma | Issue: Vol 22.3 Jul-Sep 2007 | Date: 27 Dec , 2010
Terrorism has undergone what may be equivalent to genetic changes. In the earlier decades, its agenda was mostly political, such as class questions, national liberation and urban or anarchic...
The Shadows in J&K
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Dec , 2010
In his message of February 12, 2007, Ayman al-Zawahiri, the No.2 to Osama bin Laden, has spoken of a global Jihadi Intifada. Has he spoken of any special areas of focus for this...
Is letting Pakistan collapse an option?
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Dec , 2010
“The News”, a daily of Pakistan, has carried on December 24, 2010, an analysis by Amir Mir, the well-known Pakistani journalist, of acts of suicide terrorism in Pakistan during 2010.It...
Aster-the first European missile to successfully carry out a ballistic intercept
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Dec , 2010
MBDA is celebrating the total success of an Aster missile firing carried out on 18th October 2010 by the DGA EM (Direction Générale de l’Armement – Essais de Missiles) in the Landes region of...
Gujjar Agitation: Internal Security Ramifications
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Vol 22.3 Jul-Sep 2007 | Date: 24 Dec , 2010
The purpose of this article is not to dwell on the political and social dynamics of the recent Gujjar agitation, but to highlight the pernicious internal security ramifications of such agitations...
Restructuring Aeronautics
By: SR Valluri | Issue: Vol 22.3 Jul-Sep 2007 | Date: 24 Dec , 2010
Mark Antony, the Defence Minister appointed a high level committee to look into the performance of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) laboratories. It was a timely decision....
Seven new radars to be set up in Lakshadweep to boost coastal security: Antony
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Dec , 2010
Indian Defence Minister A K Antony says, seven new radars will be set up in different islands of Lakshadweep to prevent illegal entry into the country’s territorial waters. He said, the radars...
France & Nuclear Disarmament between vision & realism-III
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 24 Dec , 2010
The second part of the speech is consecrated to disarmament. It is probably the most detailed account by a French President When international security improves, France draws the consequences....
Airbus Military A330 MRTT ends 2010 on a high note
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Dec , 2010
The Airbus Military A330 Multi Role Tanker Transport is poised to be delivered to three different customers in 2011, following a flurry of activities which ended 2010, and with its position...
Boeing to Build 3-Satellite System for Mexico
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Dec , 2010
Boeing announced that it has received a contract for approximately $1 billion from the government of Mexico to deliver an end-to-end satellite communications system. The system, known as MEXSAT,...
Boeing Receives P-8I Equipment from India's BEL
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Dec , 2010
Boeing received a key sensor technology for the Indian navy’s P-8I long-range maritime reconnaissance and anti-submarine warfare aircraft last week from Bharat Electronics Ltd. (BEL). BEL...
France & Nuclear Disarmament between vision & realism-II
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 23 Dec , 2010
People are ‘reproducible’ the Great Helmsman is said to have stated. That day, Nehru understood that India and China were not brothers, though Mao was at his charming best, when Nehru left...
Defence Industry: Change in approach overdue
By: Lt Gen Vinay Shankar | Issue: Vol 23.1 Jan-Mar 2008 | Date: 22 Dec , 2010
It is almost seven years since the first set of major policy changes were promulgated by the Government to give a fillip to our stagnating and moribund defence industry. The fundamental...
Strange priorities of the Indian media
By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman | Issue: Vol 23.3 Jul-Sep 2008 | Date: 22 Dec , 2010
An extract of the tribute paid by Rajeev Issar to the Late Major Manish Pitambare dated November 28, 2006 and circulated by email On Tuesday (November 27, 2006), this news swept across all the...