Military & Aerospace
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...
Defence Offsets – dialoguing US
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Jan , 2015
Media reports that the US is pushing for change in India’s offset policy for defence and that this issue may come up for discussion during President Obama’s upcoming visit. The changes that...
HAL Hands-over the First Overhauled Su-30 MKI; Defence Minister Lauds the...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Jan , 2015
Bengaluru/Nashik, January 9, 2015: HAL handed the first overhauled Su-30 MKI (SB 027) aircraft to the India Air Force through the Defence Minister, Mr. Manohar Parrikar at a ceremony held at...
Air Marshal Anil Khosla takes over as Director General Air Operations
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Jan , 2015
Air Marshal Anil Khosla took over as Director General Air Operations at Air Headquarters today. An alumnus of the National Defence Academy, he was commissioned in the fighter stream of the Indian...
Gaming Military Money
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Jan , 2015
The report submitted by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence to the Parliament on 22 December 2014 made little news. There were odd news items talking of its contents, mentioning the...
The Rafale Saga
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: http://claudearpi.blogspot.in/ | Date: 08 Jan , 2015
Very few in India know the meaning of the French word ‘Rafale’, which is now associated with the supply of 126 Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft (MMRCA) to the Indian Air Force (IAF);...
Employment of Rotary Wing Platforms in Battle
By: Gp Capt B Menon | Issue: Vol. 29.3 Jul-Sep 2014 | Date: 07 Jan , 2015
Apart from other roles, insurgencies in Malaya, Kenya, Zimbabwe, French Indo-China and Algeria saw helicopters being used for troop induction into and extraction from combat zones, rudimentary...
Modernisation of Army Air Defence
By: Lt Gen Ram Pratap | Issue: Vol. 29.3 Jul-Sep 2014 | Date: 05 Jan , 2015
As threats from the air play a decisive role in war, there will always be a need to protect the vital static assets as well as retain the freedom to manoeuvre mobile combat forces with no or...
Cyber Spying: A Challenging Threat for India
By: Jatin Kumar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Jan , 2015
The significance of intelligence has been recognized as one of the oldest bulwark of the art of statecraft. The treatises of Sun Tzu and Kautilya have highlighted the importance of intelligence...
Defence Minister visits Hindan Air Base
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Jan , 2015
The Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar, familiarised himself today at Air Force Station Hindan, with the operations being carried out by the C-17 ‘Globemaster III’ and the C-130 J ‘Super...
Bargaining with the defence services
By: Lt Gen Harwant Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Jan , 2015
First it was the then officiating defence minister shri Jaitley, who, during his meeting with a delegation of veterans, told them to lower their demand for One Rank One Pension, (OROP) Now the...
INS Vikramaditya and India’s Naval Security
By: Dr Anil Kumar Singh | Issue: Vol. 29.3 Jul-Sep 2014 | Date: 26 Dec , 2014
As far as naval-vessel-building facilities are concerned, China and India are not at the same industrial level. Over the past ten years, the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) has built 16...
LCA (Navy) Successfully Ski Jumps on an Aircraft Carrier Simulated Deck
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Dec , 2014
It was a defining moment when LCA (Navy) Prototype 1 (NP1), the first indigenously designed and developed 4th plus generation combat aircraft designed to operate from the decks of air-craft...
Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft for the Indian Air Force
By: Gp Capt B Menon | Issue: Vol. 28.2 Apr-Jun 2013 | Date: 25 Dec , 2014
The IAF has decided that there is a pressing requirement to have a stealth fighter with multi-role capabilities in its inventory to cater for future threats. It is also evident that this...
Challenges in Restructuring the Combat Power of IAF
By: Air Marshal Raghu Rajan | Issue: Vol. 29.3 Jul-Sep 2014 | Date: 24 Dec , 2014
The IAF’s capability covers the IOR countries on the maritime side and its principal adversaries Pakistan and China on the landward side. The government needs to finalise the contract for the...
Fifth Generation Fighters and the IAF
By: Gp Capt Joseph Noronha | Issue: Vol 27.3 Jul-Sep 2012 | Date: 21 Dec , 2014
The capability of any modern fighter is usually way ahead of its predecessors, especially so if it is replacing decades-old planes such as the MiG-21 and the MiG-27. This is even more applicable...
Central Armed Police Forces: The Need for Re-evaluation
By: Brig Deepak Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Dec , 2014
With the recent tragic death of 14 CRPF personnel in an ambush in Chhattisgarh, trust the media to go off on a wild goose chase, once again. For a supposedly well informed fraternity, I cannot...
Agenda for the new Defence Minister
By: Brig. Gurmeet Kanwal | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Dec , 2014
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) did not have a full-time Defence Minister for over five months after the NDA government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi was sworn in on May 26, 2014. There is a...
Air Marshal Sukhchain Singh takes over as Air Officer-in-Charge Maintenance...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Dec , 2014
Air Marshal Sukhchain Singh Vishisht Seva Medal (VSM) assumed the responsibilities of Air Officer–in-Charge Maintenance at Air HQ, New Delhi on 01 Dec 14. The Air Marshal who belongs to...
Cyber Security: A Sine Qua Non
By: Sudhanshu Jain | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 25 Nov , 2014
The recent cyber attack originating from Pakistan with regard to the exodus by the people of the northeast and the tepid response from the government are worrying causes for the people of the...