Military & Aerospace
Could the IAF be Confronted with Computer Stuffed Cockpits of PLAAF?
By: Sqn Ldr Vijainder K Thakur | Issue: Vol. 29.4 Oct-Dec 2014 | Date: 18 Mar , 2015
It is widely presumed that sixth generation fighters would be optionally manned. The decision to put a pilot in the cockpit would be determined by the nature of the mission. Many missions would...
Limited Rise in India’s Defence Budget 2015 – 16
By: Danvir Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Mar , 2015
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley while presenting his maiden budget on 28 Feb, 2015 underlined that defence of every square inch of our mother land comes before anything else. ...push towards...
Defence Budget 2015-16: Allocation Inadequate for Modernisation
By: Brig. Gurmeet Kanwal | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Feb , 2015
The finance Minister has hiked the defence budget for FY 2015-16 by 9.46 per cent to Rs 2,46,727 crore, which is Rs 23,357 crore more than the revised estimates for the current financial year...
The Future of India’s Air Power
By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa | Issue: Vol. 30.1 Jan-Mar 2015 | Date: 22 Feb , 2015
The humongous prolonged gestation period in designing and operationalising any weapon system by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and assembly line manufacturing by the...
Army Aviation Corps: On the Wings of Transformation
By: Shantanu K Bansal | Issue: Vol. 30.1 Jan-Mar 2015 | Date: 21 Feb , 2015
Established in 1986, the Army Aviation Corps (AAC) is one of the youngest Corps in the Indian Army. It has operated over all types of terrain from deserts plains, forests and high mountains to...
Chief of Defence Staff – are we kidding or serious?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Feb , 2015
Going by media reports, the MoS Defence, Rao Inderjit Singh, has stated on the sidelines of an international seminar ‘Aerospace Vision: 2050’ on 16 February that the MoD has decided to create...
India’s Defence Industrial Complex
By: Special Correspondent | Issue: Vol. 29.4 Oct-Dec 2014 | Date: 19 Feb , 2015
For India the urgent reorganisation of the MoD needs to be undertaken; it is important - not only for optimising the defence-industrial complex but also to leverage the defence of the country. It...
Flying High: The Bright Future of India’s Military UAVs
By: Gp Capt Joseph Noronha | Issue: Vol. 29.4 Oct-Dec 2014 | Date: 18 Feb , 2015
The pace of India’s UAV acquisitions is likely to quicken over the next five years or so and the size of the Indian market during the same period is estimated at over $2 billion. According to...
Children of a Lesser God
By: Lt Gen Vijay Oberoi | Issue: Vol. 29.3 Jul-Sep 2014 | Date: 11 Feb , 2015
The Indian soldiers, on account of their faith in the officers who lead them, their innate goodness and the discipline that has been ingrained in them have a great capacity to accept and absorb...
IAF’s Trainer Fleet: Need for Revamp!
By: Gp Capt AK Sachdev | Issue: Vol. 29.4 Oct-Dec 2014 | Date: 09 Feb , 2015
Up till mid-2009, for basic training, the IAF was using the HPT-32, a piston-engine aircraft produced indigenously by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL). This aircraft was in service with the...
Another Milestone: Maiden Flight of LCA Naval Prototype 2
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Feb , 2015
Bengaluru, February 7, 2015 Naval LCA-Tejas programme got a major fillip today when the second LCA Naval prototype took to skies from HAL here today. The Naval Prototype (NP2) made its maiden...
V-22 Osprey: Options for India
By: Air Marshal Raghu Rajan | Issue: Vol. 28.3 Jul-Sep 2013 | Date: 04 Feb , 2015
The Boeing V-22 Osprey is the only operational tilt-rotor aircraft that combines speed, payload capability and reach of a fixed-wing transport aircraft with hover-landing capability of a...
The Himalayan Sentinel and a Strike Corps
By: Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee | Issue: Vol. 29.3 Jul-Sep 2014 | Date: 02 Feb , 2015
The Indian Army remains handicapped in terms of its war making potential and lack of military infrastructure along the ever-vulnerable Indo-Tibet Border. The military men’s cause was first...
Integrated Air Defence for the Indian Airspace
By: Air Marshal Dhiraj Kukreja | Issue: Vol. 29.4 Oct-Dec 2014 | Date: 29 Jan , 2015
Events such as the Purulia arms drop, use of hijacked airliners as a lethal arm of terrorism, disappearance of a civil airliner from the radar screen and proliferation of tactical and...
PM’s remarks at the NCC Rally
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Jan , 2015
The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, today called upon NCC cadets to plan a unique nationwide celebration of the first International Yoga Day on June 21st. Addressing cadets from across the...
Aerial Weapons Systems for the Indian Air Force
By: Gp Capt B Menon | Issue: Vol. 29.4 Oct-Dec 2014 | Date: 24 Jan , 2015
In the foreseeable future extending up to the next 20 years or so, the IAF will have to prepare for the eventuality of a hostile adversary continuing a low intensity campaign using expendable...
Defence Minister Hands-over HAL Made Tejas to IAF; Calls for Out of Box...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Jan , 2015
Bengaluru, January 17, 2015 Defence Minister Mr. Manohar Parrikar handed over the first series production Light Combat Aircraft, Tejas made by HAL to the Indian Air Force at a ceremony at HAL...
New Batch of Soldiers Pass Out from 39 Gorkha Training Centre, Varanasi
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Jan , 2015
A fresh batch R-207 of 225 recruits of 39 GTC, took oath during an impressive attestation and passing out parade on 17 Jan 2015 at 39 Gorkha Training Centre, Varanasi. The Gorkha recruits were...
Army Modernisation Plan Adversely Hit as Budget Cut by Rs. 5,000 crore
By: Col (Dr) PK Vasudeva | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Jan , 2015
Modernisation of the Indian Defence Forces is a continuous process based on threat perception, operational challenges, technological changes and available sources. The process is based on a 15...
Defence Acquisitions: Mismanage Projects and Lose Money
By: Vikram Taneja | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 18 Jan , 2015
As observed by an alarmed Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence, the estimated losses accrued due to time and cost overruns in Naval acquisitions/ developmental projects amount to a...