Articles in Net Edition
Lessons from 1962: Is 50 years not enough?
By: Maj Gen S G Vombatkere | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Nov , 2012
Institutions and nations rarely if ever learn from successes, but it is possible and necessary to learn from institutional or national failure. This is particularly true of military operations....
Can the soldiers be allowed to be murdered behind the cover of red tape?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Nov , 2012
Media hysteria about army causing wasteful expenditure of rupees 100 crores needs analysis. If an Army Chief’s top secret letter to the Prime Minister can be leaked to the media, what is so...
Do we need the Indian Army?
By: Lt Gen KK Khanna, PVSM, AVSM** (Retd) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Nov , 2012
Pandit Nehru believed that the Indian Army was quite unnecessary, in fact dangerous, because generals seized power. Having struggled to gain power, even accepting partition of the Country in the...
Boeing Celebrates 500th Delivery of 737 with Boeing Sky Interior
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Nov , 2012
Copa Airlines to operate the Next-Generation 737-800 Boeing’s popular passenger-inspired 737 Boeing Sky Interior today marked its 500th delivery and its second anniversary in service. The...
C-17 Sustainment Team Wins Top Award for Government-Industry Partnership
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Nov , 2012
The C-17 Globemaster III Integrated Sustainment Program (GISP) was recently awarded the 2012 Secretary of Defense “Gerald R. Beck” Performance Based Logistics (PBL) system-level Award by the...
Lockheed Martin C-130J Super Hercules Variants declared ‘Mission...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Nov , 2012
The Lockheed Martin HC-130J Combat King II and the MC-130J Commando II aircraft have been certified as “Effective, Suitable and Mission Capable” by the Air Force Operational Test and...
Saab signs investment deal with Pipavav
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Nov , 2012
Defence and security company Saab has today signed a deal with Pipavav Offshore and Defence Engineering Ltd (Pipavav), India, about an investment in the company of MSEK 250. The investment is made...
Boeing Delivers Royal Australian Air Force’s 6th C-17
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Nov , 2012
Boeing delivered the sixth Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) C-17 Globemaster III today at the company’s final assembly facility in Long Beach. The airlifter will be assigned to No. 36 Squadron at...
Afghanistan: Analysis of the Doubtless Withdrawal Symptoms
By: Dr Amarjit Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Nov , 2012
No matter who wins the US Presidential elections, both candidates have affirmed their intention to withdraw from Afghanistan in 2014, unless, of course, a major escalation takes place or the...
Boeing Delivers Final Peace Eye AEW&C Aircraft to Republic of Korea Air Force
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 31 Oct , 2012
Airborne surveillance and battle management capability delivered 5 weeks ahead of schedule in partnership with local industry Boeing on Oct. 24 delivered the fourth and final 737 Airborne Early...
New TOW missile achieves 100th direct hit in latest testing Raytheon proves...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 31 Oct , 2012
Raytheon Company and the U.S. Army achieved excellence in recent flight tests of the tube-launched, optically-tracked, wireless (TOW) missile. In September, the team scored its 100th TOW hit,...
SOFT POWER counts for very little!
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Oct , 2012
If the US lacked the overwhelming “hard power” it has, if global institutions were not dominated by it, if it did not actively propagate its political,economic and societal values world-wide,...
Boeing on Schedule to Deliver Next-Gen Tracking and Data Relay Satellite
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Oct , 2012
Satellites extend NASA’s ability to transmit information among spacecraft and ground terminals Key performance tests and work with General Dynamics on ground segment complete Boeing is on...
Le Vigilant SSBN under major routine maintenance and adaptation of new...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Oct , 2012
The nuclear submarine ballistic missile (SSBN) Le Vigilant left last week Brest naval base -Brittany, France – where she underwent first part of major maintenance and adaptation works to the new...
Pratt & Whitney Completes First PurePower PW1100G-JM Engine for Airbus A320neo
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Oct , 2012
Pratt & Whitney has completed assembly of its first engine to test (FETT) for its PurePower PW1100G-JM engine – the first engine to power the Airbus A320neo aircraft. Company leadership,...
Bell Boeing Receives US Marine Corps Contract for V-22 Training Devices
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Oct , 2012
Trainers will support presidential transport and Osprey aircrews The U.S. Marine Corps has awarded a $74 million contract to the Bell Boeing V-22 Program, a strategic alliance between Boeing and...
Successful first end to end firing of MBDA naval cruise missile (MdCN) in...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Oct , 2012
The French DGA (Direction Générale de l’Armement) has successfully carried out the first end to end firing of the MdCN (Missile de Croisière Naval or naval cruise missile) in its submarine...
EC120 Colibri aircraft exceeds 40,000 flight hours
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Oct , 2012
Helidax, a subsidiary of DCI and INAER, announces that it has exceeded 40,000 flight hours on EC120 Colibri aircraft, in their Calliope configuration, after 2 years of operation. Helidax is the...
Boeing Receives $2 Billion C-17 Aircraft Sustainment Contract
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Oct , 2012
Boeing will continue assuring the worldwide availability of C-17 aircraft, which provide vital military and humanitarian airlift capability, through a $2 billion follow-on contract it recently...
South Korea orders its 100th Sigma 40 navigation system from Sagem
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Oct , 2012
South Korea has ordered its 100th shipborne Sigma 40 inertial navigation system from Sagem (Safran group), confirming its confidence in the system’s laser gyro technology. The Sigma 40 is a...