Articles in Vol. 27.4 Oct-Dec 2012

The Nehruvian Blunder

The Nehruvian Blunder

By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol. 27.4 Oct-Dec 2012 | Date: 07 Dec , 2023

In any future conflict, New Delhi’s political will and the capabilities of the Indian military should be such that China and Pakistan are hard-pressed to defend Tibet and Lahore respectively...

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Taking on the Dragon

Taking on the Dragon

By: Maj Gen Sheru Thapliyal, PhD | Issue: Vol. 27.4 Oct-Dec 2012 | Date: 06 May , 2014

A defeat in a future conflict with China will be a disaster for India. Apart from the economic ruin, it will substantially damage India’s standing in the comity of nations and degrade her...

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Pipavav-DCNS to Build Warships

Pipavav-DCNS to Build Warships

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol. 27.4 Oct-Dec 2012 | Date: 01 Jan , 2013

Pipavav Defence and Offshore Engineering Company Limited, a leading company in the Indian Defence Sector, has teamed up with French company DCNS, a world leader in naval defence, energy systems,...

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Stealth Frigates for the Indian Navy

Stealth Frigates for the Indian Navy

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol. 27.4 Oct-Dec 2012 | Date: 01 Jan , 2013

As per the Indian Minister of Defence, A.K Antony, the Indian Navy (IN) will get seven more indigenous stealth frigate warships to give the IN a stealthy power punch. INS Sahyadri, the last of the...

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Embraer AEW&C Aircraft for India

Embraer AEW&C Aircraft for India

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol. 27.4 Oct-Dec 2012 | Date: 01 Jan , 2013

Taking delivery of the first Embraer 145 Airborne Early Warning and Control Aircraft (AEW&C) built with Indian technology, India today took a major step in mounting an electronic eye in the sky....

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Sale of F-16 Fighters to Taiwan

Sale of F-16 Fighters to Taiwan

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol. 27.4 Oct-Dec 2012 | Date: 01 Jan , 2013

In a move that could further rile relations with China, the White House is considering a change in policy toward the sale of F-16C/D fighters to Taiwan. White House Director of Legislative...

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India and the South Asian Neighbourhood

India and the South Asian Neighbourhood

By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Vol. 27.4 Oct-Dec 2012 | Date: 01 Jan , 2013

India’s relations with her neighbours need to be analysed frankly and unsentimentally, without recourse to the usual platitudes when pronouncing on the subject. It is fashionable to assume that...

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42 Combat Squadrons for the IAF

42 Combat Squadrons for the IAF

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol. 27.4 Oct-Dec 2012 | Date: 31 Dec , 2012

The IAF has plans to build up its strength of combat squadrons to 42 over the next five years as against the current level of 34. “We are more than Pakistan at this time, it’s not just...

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Northrop Grumman Awarded NATO UAS Contract

Northrop Grumman Awarded NATO UAS Contract

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol. 27.4 Oct-Dec 2012 | Date: 31 Dec , 2012

Northrop Grumman signed a $1.7 billion contract to provide five Block 40 Global Hawk Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) for NATO’s Alliance Ground Surveillance (AGS) system. Operating under NATO...

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Russia and Israel Set to Build New Drone

Russia and Israel Set to Build New Drone

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol. 27.4 Oct-Dec 2012 | Date: 31 Dec , 2012

Russia and Israel are negotiating to build an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) as a joint venture project. The aim is to initiate technological cooperation and to develop a product that will be used...

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Air Power against the Maoists

Air Power against the Maoists

By: Air Marshal Narayan Menon | Issue: Vol. 27.4 Oct-Dec 2012 | Date: 30 Dec , 2012

Employment of air power to search and destroy targets has been carried out on a very large scale in Afghanistan and Pakistan by the US forces. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Unmanned Combat...

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Disputes in the South China Sea

Disputes in the South China Sea

By: Maj Gen PK Chakravorty | Issue: Vol. 27.4 Oct-Dec 2012 | Date: 25 Dec , 2012

Prior to analysing the dispute it is important to understand the UN Law of the Sea. The 1982 Convention on the Law of Seas has numerous guidelines pertaining to islands, the continental shelf,...

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Pretending “Soldiers”

Pretending “Soldiers”

By: Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee | Issue: Vol. 27.4 Oct-Dec 2012 | Date: 19 Dec , 2012

Playing a ‘soldier’ has always been a very enticing engagement amongst children. Even grown-ups of prominent status like the tag of being a ‘military- man’, as evidenced by their urge to...

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Tank Ammunition from Russia

Tank Ammunition from Russia

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol. 27.4 Oct-Dec 2012 | Date: 17 Dec , 2012

The Indian Army is currently facing a critical shortage of ammunition for the Indian Army’s fleet of T-90 and T-72 tanks after the blacklisting of the supplier of the Fin Stabilized Armour...

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Boeing and Embraer to Partner on KC-390

Boeing and Embraer to Partner on KC-390

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol. 27.4 Oct-Dec 2012 | Date: 17 Dec , 2012

Boeing and Embraer have entered into an agreement to collaborate on the KC-390 program, under which the companies will share some technical knowledge and evaluate markets where they may join their...

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Rafale MMRCA for the IAF

Rafale MMRCA for the IAF

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol. 27.4 Oct-Dec 2012 | Date: 17 Dec , 2012

India’s hunt for the acquisition of 126 Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft (MMRCA) is coming to a close with the Ministry of Defence giving the green signal to the evaluation process that led to...

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Surveillance Drones and National Security

Surveillance Drones and National Security

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol. 27.4 Oct-Dec 2012 | Date: 17 Dec , 2012

The increase in acquisition of unmanned aerial surveillance drones by the government is paying dividends for law enforcement authorities. Yet it is exacerbating angst over terrorist attacks from...

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Military Application of Unmanned Rotary Wing Aircraft

Military Application of Unmanned Rotary Wing Aircraft

By: Gp Capt AK Sachdev | Issue: Vol. 27.4 Oct-Dec 2012 | Date: 14 Dec , 2012

The term Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is being slowly replaced by UAS as in many of its variegated missions, the aircraft is not carrying any payload from one place to another and is thus not a...

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China’s Space Programme & Its Implications for India

China’s Space Programme & Its Implications for India

By: Air Marshal BK Pandey | Issue: Vol. 27.4 Oct-Dec 2012 | Date: 12 Dec , 2012

China has already sent eight astronauts into space on four manned missions. Budgetary constraints and technology denial regimes have been cited as the primary causes of tardy progress in India....

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Higher Defence Management through Effective Civil-Military Relations

Higher Defence Management through Effective Civil-Military Relations

By: Air Marshal Dhiraj Kukreja | Issue: Vol. 27.4 Oct-Dec 2012 | Date: 10 Dec , 2012

“He (the soldier) is thus the very basis and silent, barely visible cornerstone of our fame, culture, physical well-being and prosperity; in short, of the entire nation building activity. He...

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