Articles in Net Edition
Lockheed Martin's Fighting Falcon evolves with New F-16V
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Feb , 2012
Lockheed Martin unveiled a new version of the F-16 at the Singapore Airshow. The F-16V will feature enhancements including an active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar, an upgraded...
Mi-17 V5 helicopter to be inducted into the IAF
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Feb , 2012
Mi-17 V5 helicopter would be inducted into the IAF on 17 February 2012. This helicopter falls in the category of armed helicopter, with substantial and effective firepower with the latest and...
Terrorist Attack on Israeli Diplomat
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Feb , 2012
The wife of the Israeli Defence Attache in New Delhi, her Indian driver and two bystanders on the road were injured on February 13, 2012, when what was believed to be an explosive-cum-incendiary...
The Pakistani Conundrum
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Feb , 2012
After having fairly successfully defied the Army over the so-called Memogate affair, the elected Pakistani Executive headed by President Asif Ali Zardari has now chosen to defy the judiciary on...
India Losing War Against Terrorism
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Feb , 2012
The desperation to equate Pakistan sponsored terror with so-called ‘Hindu Terror’ or ‘Saffron Terror’ is largely motivated by selfish considerations of very few at the cost of the nation....
Facts about Chinese presence in POK
By: Bhashyam Kasturi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Feb , 2012
At the end of last year, statements were made by the Indian Army Chief, General V.K. Singh about the presence of Chinese Peoples Liberation Army [PLA] troops in the Northern Areas of Pakistan....
UN Peacekeeping: Thinking 'out of the box'
By: Ali Ahmed | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Feb , 2012
The story of India’s peacekeeping engagement is too well known to recount. However, less known is the fact that India numbers among the five top UN troop contributing countries. In effect,...
IAF Chief Leads Delegation to Singapore
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Feb , 2012
Air Chief Marshal NAK Browne, Chief of the Air Staff, is on a, four day Defence Cooperation visit to Singapore from 13 Feb 2012. Leading a Composite Defence Delegation to Singapore, the Air...
Fears of Pakistanisation of Maldives
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Feb , 2012
There has been disquiet among the large number of supporters of former Maldivian President Mohammed Nasheed over indications that appeared on February 11, 2012, that India, the US and the...
IAF shifting from 'bullock cart' technology to 'Mercedez Benz' expertise
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Feb , 2012
Primary key to India’s emergence as a successful global power lies on the ability to acquire and imbibe superior defence technologies in the knowledge-based society of the 21st century. It is...
Selection of the Army Chief
By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Feb , 2012
The recent debate about the date of birth of the Army Chief has been highly skewed, ill-informed and subjective in nature. It is being said that the order of ‘succession’ would get changed in...
China preaches non-violence ...to others
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Feb , 2012
The Chinese are apparently unhappy with the selection of the multipurpose combat plane Rafalefor the Indian Air Force. It is what appears from an article in the People’s Daily (French...
Mutiny in Maldives Leads to Replacement of President Nasheed by his...
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Feb , 2012
The Maldives saw dramatic developments on February 7,2012, when President Mohammed Nasheed was forced to step down from office following a mutiny by about 100 officers of the Police and the...
Opening-Up of Myanmar
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Feb , 2012
The three-day (Nov.30—Dec 2, 2011) visit of Hillary Clinton, US Secretary of State, to Myanmar— the first by a US Secretary of State since the visit of Johan Foster Dulles in 1955—...
Howe and Howe Technologies: Pushing the limits of extreme vehicle design...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Feb , 2012
Twin brothers Geoff and Mike Howe were already working as engineers before they knew what engineering was. At age six, they took a toaster apart to figure out how it worked. At eight, they built...
Russian-Chinese nervousness influences their vote on Syria
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Feb , 2012
The veto by Russia and China on February 4,2012, of a resolution in the UN Security Council that called upon Syrian President Bashar Assad to step down in the face of the persisting movement...
India: Back to France
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Feb , 2012
< !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> The Government of India must press ahead with its last-lap negotiations with Dassault Aviation of France for the finalisation of the definitive contract for the acquisition of 126 Rafale...
Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force Orders Northrop Grumman's ALMDS
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Feb , 2012
The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force has purchased four helicopter-mountable, laser mine detection systems to help protect its coastline and the daily maritime traffic coming in and out of the...
Legal warfare: The neglected dimension
By: Ali Ahmed | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Jan , 2012
The legal dimension is usually taken as an after thought, coming to fore post conflict. This is no longer the case. The legal arena is now very much where the conflict plays out, even as the...
Curfew in Western Sichuan
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Jan , 2012
11 Tibetans Die in Police Firing A curfew has been imposed and a shoot-at-sight order has been given to the police following two days of violent protests by Tibetans in certain parts of Western...