Defence Industry
Future of Attack Helicopters: The Million Dollar Question?
By: Gp Capt PK Mulay | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Feb , 2023
Background Third of October 2022, was a memorable day for Indian Aviation as the defence minister presided over the formal handing over of the Light Combat Helicopter (LCH) to the Indian Air...
Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems: Existential Threat to Humanity?
By: Brig Arvind Dhananjayan | Issue: Vol. 37.4, Oct-Dec 2022 | Date: 22 Feb , 2023
Early in January 1942, Project X-Ray of the United States of America (USA) envisaged using the Mexican Bat, endemic to South Western USA, as a retaliatory weapon against the Japanese for the...
Defense Allocation, Reforms, Reality & The Way Forward
By: Prof (Dr) SN Misra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Feb , 2023
The Indian economy has been an outlier in terms of growth, clocking a 7.1% increase in GDP during 2022-23, and is expected to achieve 6.5% growth in 2023-24. Agriculture has proved to be a robust...
Air India Selects Up to 290 Boeing Jets
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Feb , 2023
Boeing and Air India today announced the carrier has selected Boeing's family of fuel-efficient airplanes to expand its future fleet with plans to invest in 190 737 MAX, 20 787 Dreamliner and 10...
Air India places record order for more than 800 LEAP engines
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Feb , 2023
Air India and CFM International have signed an agreement for the largest ever CFM LEAP engine order. CFM will exclusively power the airline’s newly-announced fleet of 210 Airbus A320/A321neo...
Arrival of the USAF’s F-35 at Aero India 2023 Marks Historic Debut
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Feb , 2023
The United States Air Force’s (USAF) newest fifth-generation fighters – the stealthy, supersonic, multirole F-35A Lightning II and F-35A Joint Strike Fighter – will make their debut at Aero...
TSAW Drones launched Hybrid Fixed Wing VTOL (Adarna V2) at Aero India
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Feb , 2023
Delhi-NCR headquartered Drone tech startup TSAW Drones launched its Made-In-India drone – Hybrid Fixed Wing VTOL (Adarna V2) at Aero India 2023. The 14th edition of Aero India takes place...
Saab Showcases Power of Gamechanging Gripen E at AeroIndia 2023
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Feb , 2023
Saab will demonstrate the cutting edge technologies that make Gripen E the world’s most modern multi-role fighter aircraft. Along with the Carl-Gustaf®, AT4 and IDAS, which are in service with...
Commissioning of INS Vagir: The fifth Kalvari-class submarine entirely made...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Jan , 2023
On 23 January 2023, INS Vagir, the fifth P75 Kalvari-class submarines, was commissioned within the Indian Navy in presence of the Chief of Naval Staff, Admiral R Hari Kumar, PVSM, AVSM, VSM, ADC...
Indo-Russian joint venture starts manufacturing Kalashnikov AK-203 assault...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Jan , 2023
Indo-Russian Rifles Private Limited, a joint venture between Russia and India, registered and located in India, whose founders on the Russian side are Rosoboronexport and Kalashnikov Concern...
Elbit Systems Awarded a $180 Million Contract from the Israeli MOD for its...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Jan , 2023
Elbit Systems Ltd. announced that it was awarded a contract in an amount of approximately $180 million from the Israeli Ministry of Defense (IMoD) to provide, operate and maintain the new Mission...
How should India Exploit Space for Military Advantage?
By: Gp Capt AK Sachdev | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Jan , 2023
In December 2019, as per a declaration issued by the Heads of State and Government participating in the meeting of the North Atlantic Council in London, formally recognised space as an...
Egypt Purchases New Boeing CH-47F Chinooks to Modernize Fleet
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Jan , 2023
The U.S. Army has awarded Boeing a contract to produce 12 new CH-47F Chinooks for the Egyptian Air Force. With this $426 million foreign military sale, Egypt will replace its fleet of CH-47D...
Operational Capability of LCA Tejas Variants
By: Air Marshal Anil Chopra | Issue: Vol. 37.4, Oct-Dec 2022 | Date: 31 Dec , 2022
With the clearance for the development of the indigenous Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Mark 2 fighter for the Indian Air Force (IAF), the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) has reposed its trust...
Mormugao: A P15B Stealth Guided Missile Destroyer
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Dec , 2022
Mormugao, a P15B stealth guided missile destroyer, is scheduled to be commissioned into the Indian Navy in the presence of the Hon’ble Raksha Mantri, Shri Rajnath Singh, at the Naval Dockyard,...
Kalyani-Rafael Advanced Systems Pvt Ltd rolls out MRSAM Missile kits for the...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Dec , 2022
Kalyani Rafael Advanced Systems Pvt Ltd (KRAS) today rolled out the 100th Medium Range Surface to Air Missile Kit for delivery to the Indian Armed Forces. The kit is part of the MRSAM Air Defence...
On Navy Day, Rolls-Royce Underpins its Commitment to Partner the Indian Navy
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Dec , 2022
Rolls-Royce has been a proud partner of the Indian armed forces for nine decades and continues to explore opportunities to serve India’s naval modernisation programme. India celebrates Navy Day...
Airborne Anti-Submarine Warfare New thrust area for Indian Navy
By: Cdr SV Chavannavar, (Retd.) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Dec , 2022
This article was inspired by a novel ‘Mayhem in south China sea’ by Cmde PR Franklin, a retired Indian Naval officer and a submariner by professional specialisation. It is fiction that...
Ethico-legal issues of Transnational Drone Strikes against Terror Groups and...
By: Col Guru Saday Batabyal (Retd.) PhD, FRHistS, | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Nov , 2022
Introduction Military technology which has always defined how wars are fought has come a long way from bows and arrows of the epical war of Mahabharata and Trojan war to longbow used by the...
Military Modernisation and the “Hollowness”
By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Nov , 2022
Ten years ago, in 2012, the then Chief of the Army Staff wrote a detailed letter to the then Prime Minister bringing to his notice the “critical deficiencies” in the Army’s arsenal and...