Articles in Net Edition
Boeing Launches 4th Earth-Observation Satellite
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Nov , 2010
The Boeing Company on Nov. 5 successfully launched the last in a series of four SkyMed spacecraft for the Italian Constellation of Small Satellites for Mediterranean basin Observation (COSMO). A...
Lockheed Developing Unmanned Helicopter
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Nov , 2010
Aerospace major Lockheed Martin is developing an unmanned helicopter called the Kaman K-MAX that will fly without a pilot and will carry 6,000lbs of cargo at a maximum speed of 92 mph. It will...
India to Enhance AWACS Fleet
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Nov , 2010
After having received the first of the three contracted Ilyushin Il 76-based Airborne Warning & Control Systems (AWACS) aircraft modified by Elta Systems, a subsidiary of Israel Aerospace...
Diagnosing the Pakistani Overreach
By: Lt Gen Vinay Shankar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Nov , 2010
Our Foreign Secretary in a recent talk has stated that “India’s efforts to bridge the trust deficit and pave the way for a serious and comprehensive dialogue were thwarted by a level of...
Maoist Warriors: More than foot soldiers
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Nov , 2010
Predictably, Delhi’s Left-dominated intellectual circles have condemned the reported move on the part of Chhatisgarh police to implicate a high-profile Delhi University Professor for her...
Boeing-KAI sign agreement for production of F-15 Silent Eagle Conformal...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Nov , 2010
Boeing has entered into a Memorandum of Agreement with Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd. (KAI) for KAI to design, develop and manufacture the Conformal Weapons Bay (CWB) for the F-15 Silent...
IAF upgrading facilities in northeast: Air chief
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Nov , 2010
Kalaikunda (West Bengal), Nov 2 (IANS) The Indian Air Force (IAF) is upgrading its capabilities in the northeastern region of the country by revamping eight advance landing grounds and improving...
Fifth Generation Fighters for India
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Nov , 2010
According to the Chief of the Air Staff, Air Marshal PV Naik, the Indo-Russian Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft (FGFA), the state-of-the art stealth fighters will be inducted into the Indian...
Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor performs Air Demo for first time over Dallas
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Nov , 2010
The Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor performed its precision aerobatics at the Fort Worth Alliance Air Show Oct. 30-31, marking the first time the aircraft has demonstrated its aerial capabilities in...
Need to Bridge Inter-Services Trust Deficit
By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Nov , 2010
Existing trust deficit amongst the three services is adversely affecting national defence preparedness and is the primary impediment in achieving the goal of jointmanship. Lack of mutual trust...
BAE Systems M777 Howitzer Programme
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Nov , 2010
BAE Systems has received an order for 93 additional M777 howitzers, taking the order book to 955 systems and taking sales for the programme to over £1bn. The US is buying 58 guns for the US Army...
Indian Air Force 2020
By: Air Marshal BK Pandey | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Oct , 2010
Planning for Modernisation of the IAF Festivity during the 73rd anniversary of the Indian Air Force in October 2005 was overshadowed by the concern over its depleting combat power. Obsolescence...
Euphoria in Indo-Pak Relations
By: Anand K Verma | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Oct , 2010
Current mass euphoria in Indo-Pak sentiments, brought by the current cricket series and some recent political developments, is destined to dissipate as certain abiding realities of the Pakistani...
Reevaluating our Pakistan Policy
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Oct , 2010
The recent round of talks between the foreign ministers of India and Pakistan has failed. Indian home secretary G K Pillai has been made the villain for the failure by both the foreign ministers....
Tawang: Locals boycott Chinese goods
By: Maj Gen GD Bakshi, (Retd) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Oct , 2010
A youth camp of 645 young college students of some 28 colleges and technical institutions of Arunachal Pradesh was held at Itanagar. The Camp was conducted from 11-16th October 2010. It was...
Second Airbus Military tanker for RAF makes maiden flight
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Oct , 2010
The second A330 MRTT Future Strategic Tanker Aircraft (FSTA) for the UK Royal Air Force has successfully completed its maiden flight from the Airbus Military facility at Getafe, Madrid following...
Mine Clearing System SOUVIM-2 developed by MBDA
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Oct , 2010
The mine clearing system, SOUVIM 2, has been developed by MBDA for mobility support missions. These missions are served by carrying out the rapid opening of long stretches of mined routes at the...
The China Factor in Kashmir
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Oct , 2010
The truism is that China has all along been a player in J&K. However, in order to maintain goodwill and peace with China at all costs, the Indian policy makers have deliberately been...
Al Qaeda - Taliban in Europe
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Oct , 2010
On August 15, 2007, the Pakistani authorities handed over to Germany Tolga Durbin, a German citizen of Turkish origin, who belonged to the Islamic Jihad Union (IJU), an Uzbek terrorist...
China gets tough with protesting Tibetan students
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Oct , 2010
After having failed thus far to pacify protesting Tibetan students in the Qinghai province who are angry over the introduction of Mandarin as the medium of instruction in the Tibetan schools,...