Military & Aerospace
UAVs in the Neighbourhood
By: Air Commodore KB Menon | Issue: Vol. 29.3 Jul-Sep 2014 | Date: 30 Sep , 2015
Reports of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) being used for private and commercial use are a regular feature in the media. Does it mean that there is going to be sudden surge of UAVs flying in the...
Helicopter Fleet for the IAF
By: Gp Capt AK Sachdev | Issue: Vol. 28.2 Apr-Jun 2013 | Date: 29 Sep , 2015
Although the US lost out in the MMRCA race, the consideration of life-cycle costs has tilted the balance in favour of US products when it comes to the C-17 Globemaster III, the C-130J Super...
Corps of Artillery Celebrates 188th Gunners’ Day
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Sep , 2015
28th Sep has a special significance in the annals of the history of the Regiment of Artillery as the first Indian Artillery Unit, 5 (Bombay) Mountain Battery equipped with 2.5 inch RML Gun, was...
Strategic relevance of Gilgit and Baltistan
By: Vikram Sood | Issue: Vol 20.4 Oct-Dec 2005 | Date: 27 Sep , 2015
Gilgit and Baltistan are parts of India, as much as the rest of the J & K state is, but this region does not seem to figure too prominently on our collective radar screen. Instead, we seem to...
Cold Start Doctrine
By: Col Anil Athale | Issue: Vol 26.2 Apr-Jun 2011 | Date: 26 Sep , 2015
India has been victim of proxy war since 1999. First in Kargil in May 1999 when regular Pakistani soldiers in garb of ‘Kashmir Freedom Fighters’ infiltrated and seized dominating heights...
China ‘intervention’ during the 1965 conflict
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: http://claudearpi.blogspot.in/ | Date: 25 Sep , 2015
Analysts celebrate the 50th anniversary of the 1965 Indo-Pakistan conflict. In this connection, I am posting 4 Appendixes published by the Ministry Of External Affairs in the Notes, Memoranda And...
Drones: The Game Changers in Future Wars
By: S Gopal | Issue: Vol. 30.1 Jan-Mar 2015 | Date: 22 Sep , 2015
High operational reliability is an essential prerequisite for UAVs. A good engine is the most difficult aspect in the designing of a UAV. Designers have to make sure that the engine can support...
New Policy Guidelines on Working of Cantonment Boards on the Anvil: Manohar...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Sep , 2015
The Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar today said MoD has started working on new policy guidelines relating to working of Cantonment Boards. Addressing the Consultative Committee attached to his...
Attack Helicopters: Should India Have Them?
By: Gp Capt AG Bewoor | Issue: Vol. 28.3 Jul-Sep 2013 | Date: 19 Sep , 2015
The Attack Helicopter has value for money in a relatively benign environment for short, swift Special Operations where the opposition has restricted ability to interdict the AH. Other countries...
‘Shauryanjali’: An Exhibition on 1965 War
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Sep , 2015
The exhibition titled ‘Shauryanjali’ celebrating the Golden Jubilee of Indo-Pak War of 1965 opened at the India Gate lawns today. The exhibition is an ode to splendid show of valour and...
India’s Self-Reliance in Military Aerospace Industry
By: Air Marshal Dhiraj Kukreja | Issue: Vol. 30.2 Apr-Jun 2015 | Date: 14 Sep , 2015
Having learnt a lesson from the 1990s, the Government of India (GoI) has since laid emphasis on indigenisation of the defence industry with a number of measures initiated in this direction. The...
Fifty Years Since Haji Pir: Where did we go wrong?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Vol. 30.3 Jul-Sep 2015 | Date: 11 Sep , 2015
50 years have gone by since the capture of Haji Pir Pass by India and its return to Pakistan under the Tashkent Agreement. Where did we go wrong? We have had Parliament resolutions that Kashmir...
The bureaucracy eternal …
By: Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Sep , 2015
“Sadly, the society is not usually ruled by great men, but small ones whom circumstances have brought into positions of power”. (Purpose of the following muse is not to defend bureaucracy...
Military’s Izzat – who is responsible?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Sep , 2015
Much that remains under cover various administrations, by now it is well known that as per the Rules of Business of Government of India, the responsibility of the defence of the country remains...
One Rank One Pension Scheme for Ex-Servicemen
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Sep , 2015
The Government has announced the One Rank One Pension (OROP) scheme for the Ex-Servicemen. This was announced by the Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on 05-September-2015. The following is the...
50th anniversary of 1965 war: Lessons remain elusive
By: Cmde C Uday Bhaskar (Retd.) | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 04 Sep , 2015
The 50th anniversary of the 1965 war covertly initiated by Pakistan against India is being recalled by the Narendra Modi government in a month-long celebratory commemoration that commenced on...
First Attack Helicopter to Land at Forward Base: HAL Completes Hot & High...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Sep , 2015
HAL successfully carried out the hot and the high-altitude trials of indigenously designed, developed attack chopper Light Combat Helicopter (LCH) at Leh recently. “These seasonal trials -...
The Debilitating Politico-Military Disconnect
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Vol. 30.2 Apr-Jun 2015 | Date: 02 Sep , 2015
The security imperatives for India are multiple and dynamic with a volatile neighbourhood including an aggressive China and an irrational Pakistan that refuses to stop following a state policy...
Air Marshal S Harpal Singh takes over as Senior Air Staff Officer of HQ...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Sep , 2015
Air Marshal S Harpal Singh, AVSM, VM assumed office of Senior Air Staff Officer of Headquarters South Western Air Command, IAF on 01 Sep 15. Air Marshal S Harpal Singh was commissioned in the...
Air Marshal SB Deo, AVSM, VM, VSM takes over Command of Western Air Command
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Sep , 2015
Air Marshal SB Deo, AVSM, VM, VSM took over the command of Western Air Command on 01st September 2015. Commissioned into the Fighter stream on 15 Jun 1979, the Air Marshal has more than 4000...