Articles in Issues
Budgeting for Defence
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Oct , 2016
Defence Budget for FY 2017-2018 will be announced in few months from now. The usual pattern will likely be followed: the three Services will work out their wish lists; HQ IDs will put the lists...
India should not Gloat over a Moderate Tactical Success
By: Lt Gen Kamal Davar (Retd) | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 26 Oct , 2016
The last three weeks may not have been historically momentous, as some in the establishment would like us to believe, but certainly India has been in the news, both within and globally, and more...
Accession Day Marks True Aspirations of the People of J&K
By: Col Jaibans Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Oct , 2016
October, 26, is celebrated as Accession Day in Jammu and Kashmir, across the country and the world. It was on this day that Maharaja Hari Singh, the last ruler of the state, signed the Instrument...
New HE-MRO Centre will Support Indian Helicopter Operators
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Oct , 2016
The Indian Defence Minister, Mr. Manohar Parrikar inaugurated Helicopter Engines MRO Pvt. Limited (HE-MRO), a Joint Venture of Safran and Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. (HAL), yesterday in Goa,...
JNU not at the Cost of Country
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Oct , 2016
They danced and partied all night when about 75 CRPF personnel were killed by Maoists in Chattisgarh. They beat up two army officers when they objected to anti-India themes by Pakistani poets...
Birth of A Boomer: How India Built Its Nuclear Submarine
By: Rakesh Krishnan Simha | Issue: Courtesy: www.swarajyamag.com | Date: 25 Oct , 2016
During the 1971 War, as India’s armoured columns prepared to crash through the Pakistan Army’s defences and thundered down the road to Lahore, the US and British navies made a threatening...
Decommissioning of INS Viraat
By: Danvir Singh | Issue: Vol. 31.3 Jul-Sep 2016 | Date: 25 Oct , 2016
As the glorious chapter in the Indian Navy’s history draws to a close, the decommissioning of INS Viraat is a symptom of metamorphism the Indian navy is undergoing. INS Viraat, originally...
India’s Foreign Policy and the China-Pakistan Axis 2016
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 24 Oct , 2016
India’s foreign policy has far too long been vainly straitjacketed by pious hopes that Indian appeasement policies of the 2004-14 era towards China and Pakistan would induce moderation in their...
Defence Minister Inaugurates HAL-Safran JV for Helicopter Engines
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Oct , 2016
The Defence Minister, Mr. Manohar Parrikar inaugurated Helicopter Engines MRO Pvt. Limited (HE-MRO), a Joint Venture of HAL and Safran Helicopter Engines (SafranHE), France at Sattari District,...
Cross LOC Strike and India’s Reputation for Resolve
By: Abhay Kumar Singh | Issue: Courtesy: IDSA | Date: 23 Oct , 2016
India’s cross-LoC strikes on terrorist launch pads located in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) have been much discussed in recent days. While the government has officially described the attacks...
Pakistan Army - The Enemy Within
By: Adarsh Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Oct , 2016
Every country has an army but Pakistan army has a country! The Pakistan army is an un-elected institution in itself which over the years have deliberately crafted, created and sustained an...
Can BBIN Work as Antidote to Failures of SAARC?
By: Amitava Mukherjee | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 22 Oct , 2016
As Pakistan is now aiming for a greater South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) with China and the Central Asian states in its fold, the importance of the emerging...
Russia Perceptively Retrieves Policy Drift in South Asia Policy towards Pakistan
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 21 Oct , 2016
Russia has finally positively acted in retrieving its South Asia policy drift towards Pakistan witnessed recently in Russia-India Summit on the side-lines of BRICS Summit in Goa last weekend....
Indian and Chinese Covert Efforts
By: Nicolas Groffman | Issue: Vol. 31.3 Jul-Sep 2016 | Date: 21 Oct , 2016
The founder of Wired magazine, Kevin Kelly, has commented that a surveillance society is inevitable – but that it should not be feared in itself. Surveillance, and by extension, espionage can...
DCNS and Airbus Helicopters join forces to design future tactical VTOL drone
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Oct , 2016
DCNS, a world leader in naval defence, and Airbus Helicopters, the world’s leading helicopter manufacturer, are joining forces to design the future tactical component of France’s Naval Aerial...
The Indian Navy Commissioned the Highly Manoeuvrable Fast Attack Craft INS...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Oct , 2016
The Indian Navy commissioned the highly manoeuvrable fast attack craft INS Tihayu at the Eastern Naval Command on 19 October 16. The ship was commissioned into the Indian Navy by Vice Admiral HCS...
Safran’s Sigma 40 inertial navigation system aces integration tests with...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Oct , 2016
Safran Electronics & Defense has carried out successful integration tests of the Sigma 40 shipborne navigation system with the alignment system on the AGM-84 Harpoon anti-ship missile intended...
The Tactical Nuclear Weapons (TNW) Conundrum
By: Maj Gen PK Chakravorty | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 20 Oct , 2016
Introduction The Indian Army needs to be complimented for undertaking precise surgical strikes at numerous locations across the Line of Control (LoC) on the night of 28 and 29 September. Though...
INS Arihant finally provides India a second launch capability
By: Brig Arun Bajpai | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Oct , 2016
Till now we had Prithvi, Agni -1, Agni-2 and Agni -3 nuclear capable missiles as our land delivery means while the likes of SU 30 MKI and Mirage 2000 fighter aircrafts catered for our air delivery...
DCNS unveils BELH-RRA, the New-Generation Digital Frigate
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Oct , 2016
On the occasion of the Euronaval Exhibition in Paris-Le Bourget, DCNS unveils the BELH@RRA®, the new front-line digital frigate dedicated to the international market and which renews the...