Articles in Military & Aerospace
Defence PSUs: The Great Betrayal
By: Gp Capt AG Bewoor | Issue: Vol 24.4 Oct-Dec 2009 | Date: 05 Oct , 2013
When the Saras crashed, killing its crew, the deafening silence in the media, as also from those who know about flight testing, design and manufacture of aeroplanes, and the unforeseen dangers in...
UCAV: Airborne Without a Pilot
By: Gp Capt Joseph Noronha | Issue: Vol. 28.3 Jul-Sep 2013 | Date: 05 Oct , 2013
It seems likely that UCAVs will supplement manned aviation in a growing number of operational situations. The main reason is the capability UCAVs offer to mount a lethal attack without endangering...
Inter Service Rivalry and its Impact on National Security
By: Air Commodore KB Menon | Issue: Vol. 28.3 Jul-Sep 2013 | Date: 28 Sep , 2013
Inter-service rivalry is as old as the services themselves. Competition amongst the services and within the individual service is a good thing if it develops esprit-de-corps but at times, the...
Bilateral India-Oman Naval Exercise, Naseem Al Bahr, begins in North Arabian Sea
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Sep , 2013
The ninth edition of the bilateral Indian Navy-Royal Omani Navy biennial exercise begins tomorrow off Oman, in the North Arabian Sea. In this, the ninth edition of the bilateral exercise, Indian...
Casting the politico-military Connect
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Sep , 2013
During the Security Conclave held at Delhi Gymkhana Club on 3rd September, a senior military veteran asked the Chairman National Security Advisory Board that if as per him, military is a part of...
Gaps in Maritime Security-I
By: VK Shashikumar | Issue: Vol 24.1 Jan-Mar 2009 | Date: 16 Sep , 2013
INS Viraat Cross border terrorism has taken an entirely new dimension. The Indian security establishment is on high alert to tackle the newest frontier of terror – Maritime Terrorism. The...
Developments in Stealth Technology
By: Special Correspondent | Issue: Vol. 28.3 Jul-Sep 2013 | Date: 10 Sep , 2013
In the never ending rivalry between offence and defence, there will be a continuing race in development between stealth technology and detection devices of air defence systems. In future, stealth...
Time Critical Targeting: UAVs
By: Air Vice Marshal AK Tiwary | Issue: Vol. 28.2 Apr-Jun 2013 | Date: 30 Aug , 2013
The obvious advantage of stand-alone UAVs for TCT is the shortened sensor-to-shooter timeline since no dissemination of information is required from sensor to shooter. In optimum conditions, it is...
IAF C 130J-30 makes an historic landing at Daulat Beg Oldie (DBO)
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Aug , 2013
In a significant capability demonstration move by the IAF, a C 130J-30 Super Hercules aircraft landed at Daulat Beg Oldie (DBO), the highest airstrip in the world at 0654 hrs today. The Commanding...
Indian Navy: How Much Blue Water!
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Aug , 2013
The launch of Vikrant, the indigenous aircraft carrier, and first of the Arihant class of indigenous nuclear powered submarines have been great leaps in capacity building for a blue water...
Evolution of the Indian Submarine Arm
By: Lt Cdr Kalesh Mohanan | Issue: Vol 25.1 Jan-Mar 2010 | Date: 14 Aug , 2013
“Of all the branches of men in the forces there is none which shows more devotion and faces grimmer perils than the submariners.” — Sir Winston S. Churchill The development of...
‘Vikrant’ Reborn in Indigenous Avtar
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Aug , 2013
Amidst chanting of hymns from the Atharva Veda, Vikrant, India’s first aircraft carrier, decommissioned on 31 January 1997, was reborn today as Smt Elizabeth Antony, wife of the Defence Minister...
Prithvi-II missile hits target in a flawless user mission
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Aug , 2013
A missile unit of the Strategic Forces Command (SFC) today morning successfully launched the indigenously developed surface-to-surface/ nuclear capable Prithvi II missile with a strike range of...
Simulation and Training: The IAF Perspective
By: Air Marshal Dhiraj Kukreja | Issue: Vol. 28.2 Apr-Jun 2013 | Date: 12 Aug , 2013
“Simulators go a long way in ensuring that a pilot learns about systems under simulation before he actually uses these on-board an aircraft thus saving precious flying hours. Apart from...
Strangling Self Esteem
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Aug , 2013
The Defence Minister’s flip flop statements and eventfully blaming the Pakistani Army for the barbaric killing of five India soldiers through a cross-border raid yet again indicates the bane...
Have we done enough to secure the borders?
By: Col (Dr) PK Vasudeva | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Aug , 2013
A heavily armed team of terrorists and Pakistani troops ambushed an Indian Army patrol along the Line of Control (LoC) in the Poonch sector of Jammu and Kashmir in the early hours of August 7,...
Poor Mapping by Military Survey
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 31 Jul , 2013
Last month the military ordered a study to reorganize the Military Survey. The need to reorganize this veritable British legacy monolith was never more. There is but one intriguing element; why...
Army rescues villagers stranded due to floods in Jhansi
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 31 Jul , 2013
On being requested by the Civil Administration in Lalitpur and Paricha, Army columns and helicopters were moved in to rescue villagers stranded due to floods in Betwa River in Jhansi region on 29...
Force Multipliers for the Indian Air Force
By: Special Correspondent | Issue: Vol. 28.2 Apr-Jun 2013 | Date: 28 Jul , 2013
The IAF is currently embarked on a comprehensive and capital intensive modernisation plan. Over the next two decades, the combat fleet of the IAF will hopefully have 15 squadrons of Su-30MKI...