Articles in Net Edition
Rear Admiral Puneet Kumar Bahl assumes Charge as the Flag Officer Naval...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Oct , 2015
Rear Admiral Puneet Kumar Bahl has assumed charge as the Flag Officer Naval Aviation and Flag Officer Goa Area on 06 Oct 15. The Admiral was commissioned into the Indian Navy on 01 Jul 84 and...
IAF in the age of Unmanned, Hyper-sonic, Intelligent, Stealthy, and CPGS world
By: Navneet Bhushan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Oct , 2015
We would like to wish the Indian Air Force (IAF) a very happy birthday – the IAF was born in 1932 on 8th October – a good 15 years before India attained independence. Today, one of the finest...
'INS Astradharini': An indigenously built Torpedo Launch and Recovery Vessel
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Oct , 2015
An indigenously built Torpedo Launch and Recovery Vessel ‘INS Astradharini’, commissioned today, 06th October 2015 by Vice Admiral Satish Soni, Flag Officer Commanding Eastern Naval Command at...
Rear Admiral SV Bhokare takes over as Eastern Fleet Commander
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Oct , 2015
Rear Admiral AB Singh, VSM, Flag Officer Commanding Eastern Fleet has handed over the command of Eastern Fleet to Rear Admiral SV Bhokare, YSM, NM. The change of guard took place at an impressive...
End Game Kashmir?
By: Brig Deepak Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Oct , 2015
These appear to be desperate times not only for the Pakistani Prime Minister and his government but also for the military that we know controls it. They both seem to have clearly understood, even...
Commissioning INS Kochi: The second ship of the indigenously designed and...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Sep , 2015
The Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar today said the Government is fully committed to develop a real Blue Water Navy, a Navy which can dominate the Indian Ocean Region, but will be considered...
Boeing receives order from India for 22 Apache and 15 Chinook Helicopters
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Sep , 2015
India to operate advanced AH-64E Apache and CH-47F Chinook Contracts will strengthen Boeing-India relationship Includes training and support to the Indian Air Force The India Ministry of...
PSLV Successfully Launches India’s Multi Wavelength Space Observatory ASTROSAT
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Sep , 2015
In its thirty first flight (PSLV-C30) conducted today (September 28, 2015), India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle successfully launched ASTROSAT, the country’s Multi Wavelength Space Observatory...
Corps of Artillery Celebrates 188th Gunners' Day
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Sep , 2015
28th Sep has a special significance in the annals of the history of the Regiment of Artillery as the first Indian Artillery Unit, 5 (Bombay) Mountain Battery equipped with 2.5 inch RML Gun, was...
DST - Lockheed Martin India Innovation Growth Programme takes Indian...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Sep , 2015
Responding to Prime Minister, Narendra Modi’s slogan of “Start-up India, Stand-up India” on Independence day, the Indian Department of Science and Technology jointly with US defense major...
Defence Minister asks DRDO to focus on core Defence Technology areas
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Sep , 2015
The Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar today asked DRDO scientists to concentrate on core activities factoring the defence technology requirements of the Armed Forces. He asked DRDO to involve the...
Do Not Drag Kashmir into an Abyss
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Sep , 2015
Hurriyat stalwarts Syed Ali Shah Geelani and Mirwaiz Umar Fraooq are insisting on attending the annual foreign ministers meet of the Organisation of Islamic Countries (OIC) to be held at New York...
The Making of a Field Marshal
By: Lt Gen SK Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Sep , 2015
It was on New Year’s Day of 1973 that the nation got to know that the architect of India ’s greatest military victory in centuries had been elevated to the rank of field marshal. This came as...
Raheel Sharif: The New Dictator of Pakistan
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Sep , 2015
The latest attack at an Air Base near Peshawar in which more than 30 air force and army personnel have been killed has not dented the honeymoon of the general public with the Army Chief Gen...
New Policy Guidelines on Working of Cantonment Boards on the Anvil: Manohar...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Sep , 2015
The Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar today said MoD has started working on new policy guidelines relating to working of Cantonment Boards. Addressing the Consultative Committee attached to his...
Boeing Announces "India’s Time to Fly" Aerospace Innovation Summit
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Sep , 2015
Boeing and the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay will convene a summit on aerospace innovation in New Delhi on Oct. 16, 2015. Bringing together thought leaders and stakeholders from...
1965 War: Op Gibraltar and How the War Started
By: Brig D S Sarao | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Sep , 2015
Who started the war or to put it more palatably – how did the war start? Just as it would be naïve for the Indians to keep repeating that the ‘71 war was started by Pakistan it would be...
'Shauryanjali': An Exhibition on 1965 War
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Sep , 2015
The exhibition titled ‘Shauryanjali’ celebrating the Golden Jubilee of Indo-Pak War of 1965 opened at the India Gate lawns today. The exhibition is an ode to splendid show of valour and...
Celebrating The Past: China’s Military Parade 2015
By: Dr Rajasimman Sundaram | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Sep , 2015
By order of missing out on the finer details of the military parade held in Beijing to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Chinese military victory over occupying Japanese forces in 1945, an...
Defence Minister Commissions INS Vajrakosh at Karwar
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Sep , 2015
The Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar, commissioned INS ‘Vajrakosh’, the latest establishment of the Indian Navy today at Karwar, Karnataka. Karwar is poised to emerge as the Indian Navy’s...