Military & Aerospace
Defence Budget 2014: Allocation Raised to Rs 2,29,000 crore
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Jul , 2014
Allocation for defence in this year’s General Budget has been raised to Rs 2,29,000 crore. Presenting the Union Budget in Lok Sabha today, the Union Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley also...
DRDO Chief Calls for Indigenous Defence Production, Capability Development Plan
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Jul , 2014
Commitment to Indigenous defence production and creation of a Capability Development Plan, are the major prerequisite for creating Indigenous defence manufacturing capability in the country,...
Chinese Air Force way ahead of IAF
By: Air Marshal Narayan Menon | Issue: Vol. 26.4 Oct-Dec 2011 | Date: 05 Jul , 2014
The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 proved to be a boon to China and the PLAAF. Apart from a formidable enemy being neutralised, many displaced scientists, engineers and technicians from...
Indigenously Built Stealth Frigate Ship INS Sahyadri reached USA to...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Jul , 2014
Covering a distance of over 5000 nautical miles (9000 Km), Indian Naval Ship Sahyadri, an indigenously built guided missile stealth Frigate arrived today at Pearl Harbour, USA to participate in...
Siachen Unmasked
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Jul , 2014
Much water has flown under the bridge since 2nd October 2012 when Atlantic Council of Ottawa put out the news bulletin titled “India-Pakistan experts agree on confidence-building measures at...
Continuous Substantive Procurement for Indian Defense
By: Dr Amarjit Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Jun , 2014
India is a unique country for many reasons. But one possibly under-looked factor is that it faces security or destabilizing threats from every neighbor. This is even worse than Israel, which is...
Image of the Armed Forces
By: Gp Capt AG Bewoor | Issue: Vol 22.4 Oct-Dec 2007 | Date: 27 Jun , 2014
A significant constituent of India are her Armed Forces, to defeat aggression, wage war, and for ceremonial functions. Misemployment erodes their morale, efficiency, integrity, loyalty, sense of...
The Culture Baggage of Indian Military Philosophy
By: Lt Gen SC Sardeshpande | Issue: Vol. 29.2 Apr-Jun 2014 | Date: 25 Jun , 2014
The Gandhian philosophy of ahimsa has affected the Indian attitude towards war and use of force. Nehruvian distrust of India’s armed forces and military leadership has coloured the dispensation...
IAF welcomes 193 Flying Officers
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Jun , 2014
The morning of 21 Jun 2014 saw the officer who graduated thirty nine years ago, come back as Chief Guest to review the Combined Graduation Parade at Air Force Academy, Dundigal. Air Chief...
Armed Force Transformation and the National Security Problems
By: Brig Deepak Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Jun , 2014
With issues of getting India back on track economically and serious problems in keeping the navy afloat, India’s policy makers probably have little time to worry about the recent events that...
Iraq: India wastes Army’s Special Forces resource
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Jun , 2014
The ISIS onslaught in Iraq is being watched by the whole world. For India, many challenges have sprung with 46 nurses trapped in Tikrit that fell to the ISIS and some 40 Indian workers under...
Akash Missile Flight Tested Successfully in very low altitude
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Jun , 2014
Akash, missile was successfully test fired, today in very low altitude near boundary mission from the Integrated Test Range, Balasore, Odisha. This flight trial was last among the validation...
OROP through its long journey
By: Lt Gen Raj Kadyan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Jun , 2014
Almost every Indian would have heard of the term 'One rank one pension' or OROP for short. Not many outside the uniform may understand its meaning and the rationale behind this demand. OROP is...
Seven Reasons Why We Need to Disinvest in Ordnance Equipment Factories Group
By: Sanjay Sethi | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 13 Jun , 2014
The Ordnance Equipment Factories Group (OEFG) is one of the five product-based operating groups functioning under the control of the Ordnance Factories Board at Kolkata. The OEFG produces general...
Indo-French bilateral exercise Ex Garuda V commences at Jodhpur
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Jun , 2014
With the aim of enhancing Operational Co-operation and to validate capabilities, the Indian Air Force & French Air Force commenced the bilateral exercise “Ex Garuda V” at Jodhpur Air...
Ajit Doval – the Chanakya in the Team
By: Karan Kharb | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Jun , 2014
Just as Prime Minister Narendra Modi assumes office after a blitzkrieg electoral offensive that saw Congress and its allies vanquished as never before, the dishonest and inefficient bureaucrats...
Exercise Sagar Kavach conducted successfully
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 May , 2014
The bi-annual maritime coastal security exercise introduced post 26/11 was conducted on 21-22 May 2014 across the State of Gujarat and Union Territory of Daman & Diu coastline. The maritime...
Military Diplomacy – time to bridge the void
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 May , 2014
Questioned ‘why do we need military officers to engage in diplomacy, Nitin Pai, founder and fellow for geopolitics at the Takshila Institute, had replied, “Not only does the nature of...
Demilitarizing Siachen: Trading Strategic Advantage for Brownie Points
By: Maj Gen S G Vombatkere | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 May , 2014
The troubled India-Pakistan relationship has been punctuated by four military conflicts and decades-long military face-off across the IB and LOC, the most recent starting in 1984 on Siachen...
Why China and Pakistan want demilitarization of Siachen
By: Karan Kharb | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 May , 2014
Siachen and Sir Creek are back on the menu again. The Track II diplomacy to bring about a rapprochement between India and Pakistan is interesting in many ways. Official bilateral conclaves having...