Articles in Net Edition
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...
Boeing CH-147F Chinook for Canada successfully completes 1st Flight
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Jul , 2012
The new Boeing CH-147F Medium-to-Heavy-Lift Helicopter for Canada is progressing ahead of schedule after making its first flight on June 24. “Boeing and the Canadian Department of National Defence...
Lockheed Martin extend the Stalker UAS flight time to more than 48 hours
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Jul , 2012
Lockheed Martin and LaserMotive, Inc, demonstrated the capabilities of an innovative laser power system to extend the Stalker Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) flight time to more than 48 hours. This...
Boeing's P-8I aircraft for the Indian Navy began its flight test program
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Jul , 2012
Boeing’s first P-8I aircraft for the Indian Navy began its official flight test program July 7, taking off from Boeing Field in Seattle at 9:15 a.m. and landing three hours and 49 minutes...
Lockheed Martin delivers four F-35s to US Air Force and Marine Corps
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Jul , 2012
With the delivery of four Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II aircraft since June 29, an important milestone was achieved as the Department of Defense now possesses more operational-coded F-35s...
MBDA Firing Success Confirms Brimstone’s Status as the Anti-FIAC Solution
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Jul , 2012
The first firing of an operational Dual Mode Brimstone missile against a Fast In-Shore Attack Craft (FIAC) proved to be a resounding success and a clear demonstration of the unmatched operational...
Boeing Offers Medium-sized Maritime Surveillance Aircraft
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Jul , 2012
Low-risk, cost-effective solution leverages P-8 and AWACS technologies Boeing announced that it is offering a medium-sized Maritime Surveillance Aircraft (MSA) to the global market. MSA builds on...
Lockheed Martin and Marshall Aerospace sign agreement to increase C-130...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Jul , 2012
Lockheed Martin has signed an agreement authorizing Marshall Aerospace to become the world’s first commercial company to install C-130 Center Wing Boxes (CWB). Marshall Aerospace is also the...
India-Pakistan: Yet another round of platitudes
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Jul , 2012
For those cynical about the dialogue process with Pakistan, the lack of substance in the joint statement issued after the latest round of Foreign Secretary level talks (July 4-5) confirms our...
Sagem’s Hammer air-to-ground guided weapon with laser terminal guidance...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Jul , 2012
French defense procurement agency DGA has successfully carried out the first qualification firing test of the laser terminal guidance version of the AASM Hammer modular air-to-ground weapon built...
The Talibanization of Kashmir
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Jul , 2012
The threat to Sikhs for conversion to Islam has upset the Hurriat leaders, both the Geelani and Umar Farooq factions. They have conveniently blamed the Indian intelligence agencies for this new...
A400M MSN6 visiting Farnborough Air Show on static display
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Jul , 2012
Based on the current flight test schedule and planning for the coming days, Airbus Military has decided to bring the first production representative example of the A400M – the MSN6 – to the...
Eurofighter Typhoon Securing Air Space Over London
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Jul , 2012
Eurofighter Typhoons of the Royal Air Force (RAF) will be on high alert during the Olympic Games in order to secure the air space over London. Prior to the start of this international event which...
Mending of US-Pakistan fences and implications for India
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Jul , 2012
The three-point face saver announced from Washington DC and Islamabad on July 3, 2012, marks a recognition by the US and Pakistan of the strategic reality that the continuing frictions in the...
IAF comes to the rescue of Maldharis stranded in swamps of little Rann of Kutch
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Jun , 2012
The IAF pressed into service, its Mi-8 and Chetak aircraft promptly in response to a request for casualty evacuation of villagers at Enjar Village. Led by Wing Commander Vikas Bali and co-pilot...
Time New Delhi calls Islamabad’s Bluff!
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Jun , 2012
Pakistan once again managed to befool New Delhi and the Indian media through its diversionary tactics. They cleverly diverted the attention from the unfolding big Abu Jindal story, where...
Our real adversary is China not the US!
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Jun , 2012
US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s visit to India on June 5-6 and the third round of the India-US Strategic dialogue at Washington on June 13 have provoked much commentary on the direction of...
Myanmar: Rush is Ok, But not Gold Rush
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Jun , 2012
The elected MsP belonging to Aung San SuuKyi’s NationaL League for Democracy (NLD) took their seats as newly elected members of the lower House of the Myanmar Parliament when its session began...
Abu Jundal: New Delhi must change as Islamabad will never!
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Jun , 2012
Prima facie it appears that Abu Jundal and Abu Hamza are assumed names of an Indian citizen, Syed Zabuddin Ansari. Lashkar-e-Toiba normally provides such assumed identities to its operators. The...
China Is Worried about the U.S. Return to Asia
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Jun , 2012
On June 29, 2012, China Review News published an article titled “China Also Needs to ‘Re-Balance’ with the United States.” The author of the article concedes that China is worried about...