Articles in Issues
PLA conducts first air ground live ammunition drill in Tibet
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Oct , 2010
Citing the People’s Liberation Army Daily, the “People’s Daily” of China controlled by the Communist Party of China reported as follows on October 26,2010: “Near the foot of the snowcapped...
Trajectory to regional and global power
By: Anand K Verma | Issue: Vol 24.3 Jul-Sep 2009 | Date: 26 Oct , 2010
Many observers have commented that the 21st century belongs to India (and China). Since economics is increasingly becoming the currency of power, this statement acknowledges the changing balance...
KMW's DINGO for a safe recovery
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Oct , 2010
The multitudinous and extremely variable DINGO 2 family from Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) has welcomed a new arrival. The company presented the armoured DINGO 2 recovery vehicle at the EUROSATORY...
SESM Modern Powerpacks for T-72 and T-90
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Oct , 2010
Until today, the T-72 remains one of the most popular MBTs worldwide. Introduced in the 70s with a remarkably compact design, various modifications and upgrade programs (protection, night...
Eurofighter committed to deepening strategic partnership with India
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Oct , 2010
Eurofighter, its partner companies and the four nation members of the European consortium Germany, UK, Italy and Spain, are fully committed to deepening the strategic partnership with India....
Unpredictable China: are we prepared?
By: Col Narender Kumar | Issue: Vol 25.2 Apr-Jun 2010 | Date: 22 Oct , 2010
The rise of China’s military power and its reach and capabilities has surprised the world. China has moved beyond the doctrine of “local wars under conditions of high tech environment” to...
Dangerous Islamisation of Kashmir
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Oct , 2010
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has just returned from Kashmir. He appealed for peace and requested the “separatists” to return to the negotiating table. He held a series of conferences with...
Why Pak Army reacted strongly to copter strike in Kurram?
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Oct , 2010
“The US, while targeting the Haqqanis, is pursuing the ‘hammer and anvil approach’. Alongside the spike in the drone attacks, US Special Forces have launched an intense operation against the...
India Goes Airborne : C130J Super Hercules for India
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Oct , 2010
The first three of the six C130J Super Hercules aircraft for India have taken the final positions on Lockheed Martin’s assembly line in Marietta, Georgia. Equipped with Infra-red Detection Set...
EADS to Focus on India
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Oct , 2010
As per EADS Chief Executive (Defence & Security) Stefan Zoller, European aerospace consortium, Eurofighter, is set to transfer some development work of its fourth generation Eurofighter Typhoon...
Will Pakistan's queer diplomacy work?
By: Dr Uddipan Mukherjee, PhD | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Oct , 2010
It shall not be an overstatement that India is at the focal point of Pakistan’s foreign policy. And it shall remain so unless the chassis of theocratic-jihadi complex which propels the...
Need to act swiftly and decisively on J&K
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Oct , 2010
The situation in Jammu & Kashmir is going from bad to worse. The widespread acts of violence on the Eid day and the outburst on September 13, 2010, in the wake of baseless rumours of insult to...
AgustaWestland awarded contract by the Maryland State Police Aviation Command
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Oct , 2010
AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica company, is pleased to announce today that it has been awarded a contract by the Maryland State Police Aviation Command to provide six AW139 helicopters for their...
Myanmar going Nuclear
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Vol 24.4 Oct-Dec 2009 | Date: 20 Oct , 2010
There has been an unmistakable spurt in the development and acquisition of nuclear weapon capabilities by the Military Junta regime in Myanmar. Given the level of progress in this regard, it is...
Agenda for Obama's Visit : Counter - Terrorism
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Oct , 2010
Indo-US co-operation in counter-terrorism has the following components: Assistance in capacity building in traditional counter-terrorism: Started in the early 1980s during the administration of...
Eurocopter inaugurates its new Eurocopter India subsidiary
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Oct , 2010
Eurocopter today inaugurated its new Indian subsidiary, which has been given the goals of expanding the world’s largest helicopter manufacturer’s commercial presence in this highly-promising...
BEL Manufactured Equipment for Boeing P-8I
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Oct , 2010
Boeing received the first Indian manufactured item the Data Link II a month ahead of schedule, to be installed during the final assembly of the P-8I at its facility in Renton, Washington. Data...
France pitches for India to join military operations overseas
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 20 Oct , 2010
“I earnestly hope that the modernisation of India’s Mirage 2000 fleet will be executed by Dassault, Thales and MBDA.” Mr. Hervé Morin was born on 17 August 1961 in Pont-Audemer, Eure...
Transformation of The Chinese Military
By: Alexandre Sheldon-Duplaix | Issue: Vol 21.1 Jan-Mar 2006 | Date: 19 Oct , 2010
China’s fifth white paper, published in December 2004, outlines the objectives of a military policy focused on Taiwan1. Weaponry and equipment are identified as “the crucial material and...
Future Trends in Aviation
By: Air Marshal BK Pandey | Issue: Vol 25.1 Jan-Mar 2010 | Date: 19 Oct , 2010
Birth and Growth of Aviation Since the Wright Brothers took their first hesitant hop just over a century ago, aeronautical science has advanced at a phenomenal pace seemingly defying all limits of...