Defence Industry

Future of Attack Helicopters: The Million Dollar Question?

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...

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Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems: Existential Threat to Humanity?

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...

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Defense Allocation, Reforms, Reality & The Way Forward

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...

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Air India Selects Up to 290 Boeing Jets

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...

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Air India places record order for more than 800 LEAP engines

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...

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Arrival of the USAF’s F-35 at Aero India 2023 Marks Historic Debut 

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...

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TSAW Drones launched Hybrid Fixed Wing VTOL (Adarna V2) at Aero India

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...

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Saab Showcases Power of Gamechanging Gripen E at AeroIndia 2023

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...

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Commissioning of INS Vagir: The fifth Kalvari-class submarine entirely made...

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...

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Indo-Russian joint venture starts manufacturing Kalashnikov AK-203 assault...

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...

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Elbit Systems Awarded a $180 Million Contract from the Israeli MOD for its...

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...

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How should India Exploit Space for Military Advantage?

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...

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Egypt Purchases New Boeing CH-47F Chinooks to Modernize Fleet

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...

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Operational Capability of LCA Tejas Variants

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...

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Mormugao: A P15B Stealth Guided Missile Destroyer

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,...

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Kalyani-Rafael Advanced Systems Pvt Ltd rolls out MRSAM Missile kits for the...

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...

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On Navy Day, Rolls-Royce Underpins its Commitment to Partner the Indian Navy

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...

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Airborne Anti-Submarine Warfare New thrust area for Indian Navy

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...

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Ethico-legal issues of Transnational Drone Strikes against Terror Groups and...

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...

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Military Modernisation and the “Hollowness”

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...

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