Articles in Net Edition
Arab Spring: Is India being blackmailed?
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Aug , 2012
As an old student of Indian foreign policy, I have always viewed “nonalignment” as a tool of pursuing India’s national interests. Nonalignment can never be a goal, which, unfortunately, many...
Boeing Completes Major Join of India's 1st C-17 Airlifter
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Aug , 2012
Program on schedule to deliver strategic and humanitarian capabilities Boeing in Long Beach integrated the forward, center and aft fuselages and the wing assembly of India’s first C-17...
INS Baaz commissioned as first Naval Air Station in Nicobar Islands
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Aug , 2012
The Naval Air Station at Campbell Bay on Great Nicobar Island, was today commissioned as Indian Naval Ship ‘Baaz’ by Admiral Nirmal Verma, Chairman Chiefs of Staff Committee and the Chief of...
1965 War:True Story of 2/Lt Baljit Singh- II
By: Colonel Baljit Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Aug , 2012
The incidents narrated ahead are based on the experience of 2nd Lieutenant Baljit Singh, 3rd Madras Infantry Battalion, 69th Infantry Brigade, who had participated in the legendary 1965 Indo-Pak...
How does China eye India’s aircraft carrier Vikramaditya
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Jul , 2012
Posted July 26, 2012 by admin in China Military News. The INS Vikramaditya aircraft carrier (former Admiral Gorshkov), which Russia refurbished for India, left its berth at the Sevmash shipyard in...
Turmoil in Bodoland
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Jul , 2012
Assam is burning as I write this. Ethnic clashes between the Bodo tribes (Hindus) and “Bengali Muslims” (most of them being immigrants) have already consumed 40 lives and resulted in...
Boeing F-15E Radar Modernization Program
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Jul , 2012
Boeing said the U.S. Air Force has granted the F-15E Radar Modernization Program (RMP) approval to begin Low Rate Initial Production 2 (LRIP 2) of 10 APG-82(V)1 Active Electronically Scanned Array...
Sagem and Thales create optronics joint venture, OPTROLEAD
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Jul , 2012
Sagem (Safran group) and Thales have announced the creation of OPTROLEAD, an equally-owned joint venture for optronics. The official signature creating the new company follows the original...
Boeing Delivers 2nd Production P-8A Poseidon Aircraft to US Navy
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Jul , 2012
Boeing delivered the second production P-8A Poseidon aircraft to the U.S. Navy. The P-8A is one of 13 low rate initial production (LRIP) maritime patrol aircraft that Boeing is building for the...
United Kingdom accepts first international Lockheed Martin F-35
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Jul , 2012
The United Kingdom accepted the first international Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II aircraft in a ceremony today with senior representatives of the U.K. Ministry of Defence and the U.S....
China’s growing assertiveness and shaping the Indian response
By: Lt Gen Kamal Davar (Retd) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Jul , 2012
“Indian elites show little evidence of having thought coherently and systematically about strategy.” – George Tanham Nearly 200 years back, Napoleon had prophetically stated that “ let...
DCNS and Pipavav team up to address India’s naval needs
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Jul , 2012
DCNS and Pipavav have decided to establish a strategic partnership for bringing DCNS technologies, methods and skills into Pipavav, India’s first and largest integrated defence company. The...
Red Dragon in India’s North West
By: Lt Gen Kamal Davar (Retd) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Jul , 2012
Defence Secretary level talks between India and Pakistan held on 11-12 June 2012 at Islamabad for resolving the Siachen issue ended on expected lines with both nations sticking to their often...
2nd Boeing P-8I Aircraft for India Completes 1st Flight
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Jul , 2012
The second Boeing P-8I aircraft for the Indian Navy completed its initial flight on July 12, taking off from Renton Field at 3:29 p.m. and landing two hours and 14 minutes later at Boeing Field in...
Deliveries of key equipments for the Indian Scorpenes by DCNS
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Jul , 2012
SEC Industries and DCNS officially inaugurated new workshop facilities and delivered, after successful Factory Acceptance Tests, the cofferdam doors coamings for the Indian P75* Scorpene...
Iron Dome granted outstanding award by American Defense Manufacturers
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Jul , 2012
The American National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) has granted Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. an Outstanding Achievement Award for the development of “Iron Dome”. “Iron Dome” is a...
"Unwise to lift ban on Pak TV programmes," says former RAW officer
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Jul , 2012
In 1989, widespread demonstrations, some of them leading to violence, broke out in Jammu & Kashmir against the Government of India. That was the time when East Europe was in turmoil with...
Agni-I Ballistic Missile Successfully Launched
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Jul , 2012
India’s 700 km range ballistic missile, ‘AGNI I’ was successfully launched today from the wheeler island off the coast of Odisha. It was a textbook launch meeting all mission objectives and...
Sri Lanka: Disturbing Questions
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Jul , 2012
Some years ago, I was in Sri Lankan capital Colombo. On learning that my home state happens to be Odisha despite my Delhi-upbringing, all of a sudden, the general manager of the hotel where I was...
Honeytrap: Media bashing of the Army on false pretext
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Jul , 2012
On July 11, 2012 at approximately 6 pm one of the most responsible news channel in India claimed that an officer of Indian Army was caught in a honeytrap in a five-star hotel by the...