Military & Aerospace
Dr G Satheesh Reddy Takes Over as 12th Scientific Advisor to Raksha Mantri
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Jun , 2015
Dr G Satheesh Reddy, Distinguished Scientist, DRDO has taken over as Scientific Advisor to Raksha Mantri, (SA to RM) here today. He has been appointed to this post for a period of two years. The...
Artillery Modernisation
By: Special Correspondent | Issue: Vol. 29.2 Apr-Jun 2014 | Date: 04 Jun , 2015
Artillery modernisation in India implies the largest modernisation of this arm and needs to be given as much, if not more, importance commensurate with the manoeuvre arms it supports. The...
Air Marshal Ravinder Kumar Dhir took over as AOC-in-C of South Western Air...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Jun , 2015
Air Marshal Ravinder Kumar Dhir took over as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief (AOC-in-C) of South Western Air Command (SWAC) on 01 Jun 15. On arrival at HQ SWAC, the Air Marshal inspected a...
Visit of US Secretary of Defence to India
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Jun , 2015
Leading a high level delegation, the US Secretary of Defence Dr Ashton Carter will arrive in Visakhapatnam shortly today on a 3 day visit to the country. This would be Dr Carter’s first visit...
Air Marshal Birender Singh Dhanoa takes over as Vice Chief of the Air Staff
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Jun , 2015
Air Marshal Birender Singh Dhanoa, AVSM, YSM, VM took over as the Vice Chief of the Air Staff (VCAS) on 01 June 2015. He was commissioned in the IAF in June 1978 as a fighter pilot. He is an...
Take the war to the enemy
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol 24.1 Jan-Mar 2009 | Date: 30 May , 2015
New Delhi continues to fumble while India burns. Pakistan’s superior psychological warfare machinery further tied down the already overstretched Indian security forces in knots. Airports and...
OROP – diminutive in deeper malaise
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 May , 2015
There is plenty hoopla about OROP and with reason – some angered, some amused, some complacent. Articles have appeared that veterans are disappointed and are losing faith in the government....
Boeing Awarded First-Ever Commercial Human Space Flight Mission
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 May , 2015
NASA issued a task order as part of Boeing’s [NYSE: BA] $4.2 billion Commercial Crew Transportation Capability (CCtCap) contract recently to include the company’s first-ever service flight to...
India and Vietnam Sign a Joint Vision Statement on Defence Cooperation
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 May , 2015
India and Vietnam signed a Joint Vision Statement on Defence Cooperation for the period 2015-2020 here last night. The Statement was signed by the Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar and the...
Securing India from External and Internal Meddling
By: Lt Gen JS Bajwa and Brig RK Sharma | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 May , 2015
As the NDA government completes one year in office it would be apt to review its policies towards creating a more robust security structure. It is not too early to comment on the outcome. While...
Manohar Parrikar asks Shipyards to Compress Delivery Schedules of Warships
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 May , 2015
The Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar has asked shipyards, both public and private, to compress delivery schedules of warships and other platforms for the Navy and Coast Guard. Addressing the...
Raksha Mantri Inaugurates the new Cardiothoracic and Vascular Sciences...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 May , 2015
Raksha Mantri Manohar Parrikar inaugurated a State-of-the-Art Cardiothoracic and Vascular Sciences Centre (CVSC) at Army Hospital (R&R) in New Delhi today. The RM visited the medical facility...
G Mohan Kumar, the new Defence Secretary and Ashok Kumar Gupta, takes over...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 May , 2015
G Mohan Kumar today took over as the new Defence Secretary, succeeding RK Mathur, who laid down office yesterday. Belonging to the 1979 batch of IAS, Odisha cadre, G Mohan Kumar is a...
Defence Preparedness Back on Track
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 May , 2015
A successful foreign policy is predicated to a large measure on a country’s defence posturing. A robust defence posturing in turn is not possible without motivated men complemented by requisite...
Raksha Mantri visits the Siachen Glacier
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 May , 2015
The Raksha Mantri Manohar Parrikar visited the Siachen Glacier today. He was accompanied by Gen Dalbir Singh, COAS and was received at the Siachen Glacier Base Camp by Army Commander Northern...
NCC Girls Expedition to Mt Deo-Tibba Flags Off
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 May , 2015
The NCC Girls Expedition to Mt. Deo-Tibba was flagged off by Lt Gen A Chakravarty, Director General National Cadet Corps here today. The team comprising Thirty Three cadets along with its leader...
Boosting the Helicopter Industry in India
By: Dr Nikolai Novichkov | Issue: Vol. 30.1 Jan-Mar 2015 | Date: 18 May , 2015
Offering the new light helicopter to India, Russia intends to share new technologies with the Indian aerospace industry. These technologies can set an industrial base for high-technological...
Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha visits United States of America
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 May , 2015
Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha, Chairman Chiefs of Staff Committee (COSC) and Chief of the Air Staff (CAS) has proceeded on a four day visit to the United States of America, today. The IAF Chief is...
French Trekkers Rescued by Indian Army ALH Dhruv
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 May , 2015
In an daredevil evacuation effort, Indian Army ALH Dhruv evacuated two French trekkers along with eight Nepalese citizens from a remote place Machhakhola of Gorkha district today. While returning...
Defence Preparedness : Who Is Responsible?
By: Lt Gen PG Kamath | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 May , 2015
If one has read the CAG’s report on the state of Ammunition that was reported in all dailies on 9 May 2015, the alarm bells would ring. The report mentions that the Armed Forces have...