Articles in Net Edition
Is there an endgame in Afghanistan?
By: Vikram Sood | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Mar , 2013
The visit of U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel’s visit to Kabul had been greeted by two suicide attacks on March 9 that left 18 dead. The Taliban were obviously leaving their calling card. But...
Anti-Lanka vote was a bad idea
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Mar , 2013
India has ended up looking opportunistic and unprincipled, a victim of its internal political wrangling, with a government in New Delhi not fully in control of foreign policy. India has once...
AFSPA cannot be revoked as of now: Gen Bikram Singh
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Mar , 2013
Chief of Army Staff, General Bikram Singh, said that AFSPA is an enabling Act and should not be taken away at the moment. It is important to remain on guard.
Jihadis Refocusing on Kashmir
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Mar , 2013
Defence expert Bharat Verma says 12th March attack on the Srinagar CRPF camp is a sign that jihadi forces are now again focusing on Kashmir as they are freed from the Afghan conflict, thanks to...
Defence Budget far from Threat Perception
By: Col (Dr) PK Vasudeva | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Mar , 2013
There is an overall decrease in the defence outlay of almost all countries in the world including India except China and Pakistan. According to the Stockholm International Peace Research...
Why New Delhi wants to forget 1962?
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Mar , 2013
While the Indian National Congress is still able to remember the role of former prime ministers Lal Bahadur Shastri and Indira Gandhi in the India-Pakistan conflicts of 1965 and 1971, it has...
Could Iran be Obama's legacy?
By: Vikram Sood | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Mar , 2013
Various battles rage in the region from Pakistan to the Maghreb and where once civilisations flourished in the Indus Valley, in Persia, Mesopotamia and Egypt we today see intolerance and violence...
HAL- Rolls-Royce Production Facility Inaugurated
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Mar , 2013
International Aerospace Manufacturing Limited’s (IAMPL) production facility was formally inaugurated in Bangalore today by Mr. K. Naresh Babu, Managing Director, HAL (Bangalore Complex)....
Uncomfortable questions on land-swapping with Bangladesh
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Mar , 2013
Pakistan has done it again. In its continuing hybrid war against India(about which I have already written in this column), two terrorists belonging to Hizbul Mujahedeen, which is based in...
Boeing Ships 5th WGS Satellite to Cape Canaveral for 2013 Launch
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Mar , 2013
Block II series transmits airborne ISR imagery 3 times faster Boeing recently shipped its fifth Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellite, which will provide the U.S. Air Force with faster...
Marines: An Over-anxiety to oblige the Italian Government
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Mar , 2013
An over-anxiety on the part of the Government of India to oblige the Italian Government on the issue of the two Italian Marines, who have been charged with killing two Kerala fishermen wrongly...
First F-35 with Marietta-Built Center Wing Flown
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Mar , 2013
The first Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II with a Center Wing Assembly (CWA) built at the Lockheed Martin facility in Marietta, Ga., was flown for the first time this week. The aircraft, known as...
Rheinmetall: Future Soldier on the march
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Mar , 2013
Rheinmetall formally transferred its new IdZ-ES future soldier system to the German Bundeswehr on 7 March 2013. Short for “Infanterist der Zukunft – Erweitertes System” or “Future Soldier...
AFSPA: Misconceptions and Ground Realities
By: Maj Gen S G Vombatkere | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Mar , 2013
Sanjoy Hazarika1 and Walter Fernandes2 bring out the justifiable opposition to AFSPA felt by people from our northeastern states where it was first imposed in 1958. The provocation for both...
India’s Defence Budget: Inadequate Outlay
By: Brig. Gurmeet Kanwal | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Mar , 2013
The funds allotted for defence expenditure by Finance Minister P. Chidambaram for the Financial Year (FY) 2013-14 are inadequate to meet the growing threats and challenges facing the country,...
Gorshkov to be Delivered by 2013 End
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Mar , 2013
Aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov, renamed as INS Vikramaditya, is expected to be handed over to the Indian Navy by the end of 2013. The delay is on account of a major malfunction in the main...
Autonomous UAS Technology
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Mar , 2013
Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $13.5 million contract to explore highly advanced autonomous technologies aboard an unmanned vertical take-off and landing aircraft. Under the contract, Lockheed...
US Aerospace Majors in the Indian Market
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Mar , 2013
The US has bagged another Indian defence contract with the CH47F Chinook manufactured by Boeing emerging as the lowest bidder in a competition against the Russian Mi-26 T2 helicopter. The bid for...
Display of Air Power by China
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Mar , 2013
China conducted one of its biggest Air Force exercises involving nearly 100 combat aircraft of ten different types while it is embroiled in a dispute over drilling for oil in the South China Sea...
Pakistan’s Korean link
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Mar , 2013
North Korea, arguably the world’s most dangerous totalitarian country, has recommended a range of 28 hairstyles for its citizens, claiming that they are “the most comfortable” styles and capable...