Military & Aerospace
Inside 1962 War
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Oct , 2013
During 1962 War, India had adequate army brigades in reserve to launch a counter attack in coordination with the Air Force. The Chinese Air Force was weak in comparison and positioned far away...
Weaponisation of Space
By: Air Marshal Narayan Menon | Issue: Vol. 28.3 Jul-Sep 2013 | Date: 19 Oct , 2013
Weaponisation of space would include space control and space-based systems that could destroy targets on the earth’s surface. Space control involves protecting own systems in orbit, attacking...
The Army – What’s gone wrong?
By: Karan Kharb | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Oct , 2013
The Indian Army, besides being the world’s third largest, enjoys a unique status of professional excellence. There is no other army in the world that is as battle hardened as the Indian Army...
Integrated Theatre Commands
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Vol. 28.3 Jul-Sep 2013 | Date: 15 Oct , 2013
Jointness and integration of the Military is an inevitable requirement for the modern day battlefield. The biggest challenge to jointness is to bring about an attitudinal shift by turning the...
UCAV: Airborne Without a Pilot
By: Gp Capt Joseph Noronha | Issue: Vol. 28.3 Jul-Sep 2013 | Date: 05 Oct , 2013
It seems likely that UCAVs will supplement manned aviation in a growing number of operational situations. The main reason is the capability UCAVs offer to mount a lethal attack without...
Inter Service Rivalry and its Impact on National Security
By: Air Commodore KB Menon | Issue: Vol. 28.3 Jul-Sep 2013 | Date: 28 Sep , 2013
Inter-service rivalry is as old as the services themselves. Competition amongst the services and within the individual service is a good thing if it develops esprit-de-corps but at times, the...
Bilateral India-Oman Naval Exercise, Naseem Al Bahr, begins in North Arabian...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Sep , 2013
The ninth edition of the bilateral Indian Navy-Royal Omani Navy biennial exercise begins tomorrow off Oman, in the North Arabian Sea. In this, the ninth edition of the bilateral exercise, Indian...
Casting the politico-military Connect
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Sep , 2013
During the Security Conclave held at Delhi Gymkhana Club on 3rd September, a senior military veteran asked the Chairman National Security Advisory Board that if as per him, military is a part...
Developments in Stealth Technology
By: Special Correspondent | Issue: Vol. 28.3 Jul-Sep 2013 | Date: 10 Sep , 2013
In the never ending rivalry between offence and defence, there will be a continuing race in development between stealth technology and detection devices of air defence systems. In future, stealth...
Time Critical Targeting: UAVs
By: Air Vice Marshal AK Tiwary | Issue: Vol. 28.2 Apr-Jun 2013 | Date: 30 Aug , 2013
The obvious advantage of stand-alone UAVs for TCT is the shortened sensor-to-shooter timeline since no dissemination of information is required from sensor to shooter. In optimum conditions, it...
IAF C 130J-30 makes an historic landing at Daulat Beg Oldie (DBO)
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Aug , 2013
In a significant capability demonstration move by the IAF, a C 130J-30 Super Hercules aircraft landed at Daulat Beg Oldie (DBO), the highest airstrip in the world at 0654 hrs today. The...
Indian Navy: How Much Blue Water!
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Aug , 2013
The launch of Vikrant, the indigenous aircraft carrier, and first of the Arihant class of indigenous nuclear powered submarines have been great leaps in capacity building for a blue water...
Evolution of the Indian Submarine Arm
By: Lt Cdr Kalesh Mohanan | Issue: Vol 25.1 Jan-Mar 2010 | Date: 14 Aug , 2013
“Of all the branches of men in the forces there is none which shows more devotion and faces grimmer perils than the submariners.” — Sir Winston S. Churchill The development of...
‘Vikrant’ Reborn in Indigenous Avtar
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Aug , 2013
Amidst chanting of hymns from the Atharva Veda, Vikrant, India’s first aircraft carrier, decommissioned on 31 January 1997, was reborn today as Smt Elizabeth Antony, wife of the Defence...
Prithvi-II missile hits target in a flawless user mission
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Aug , 2013
A missile unit of the Strategic Forces Command (SFC) today morning successfully launched the indigenously developed surface-to-surface/ nuclear capable Prithvi II missile with a strike range of...
Simulation and Training: The IAF Perspective
By: Air Marshal Dhiraj Kukreja | Issue: Vol. 28.2 Apr-Jun 2013 | Date: 12 Aug , 2013
“Simulators go a long way in ensuring that a pilot learns about systems under simulation before he actually uses these on-board an aircraft thus saving precious flying hours. Apart from...
Strangling Self Esteem
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Aug , 2013
The Defence Minister’s flip flop statements and eventfully blaming the Pakistani Army for the barbaric killing of five India soldiers through a cross-border raid yet again indicates the bane...
Army rescues villagers stranded due to floods in Jhansi
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 31 Jul , 2013
On being requested by the Civil Administration in Lalitpur and Paricha, Army columns and helicopters were moved in to rescue villagers stranded due to floods in Betwa River in Jhansi region on 29...
Force Multipliers for the Indian Air Force
By: Special Correspondent | Issue: Vol. 28.2 Apr-Jun 2013 | Date: 28 Jul , 2013
The IAF is currently embarked on a comprehensive and capital intensive modernisation plan. Over the next two decades, the combat fleet of the IAF will hopefully have 15 squadrons of Su-30MKI...
Indo-French Defence Partnership Enables Strategic Autonomy
By: Jean-Yves Le Drian | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Jul , 2013
It is a great pleasure and an honour for me to be able to speak before you. Five months ago, I was accompanying our President of the French Republic, Mr François Hollande, on his State visit...