Military & Aerospace
India’s Maritime Threats
By: Admiral VS Shekhawat | Issue: Vol 22.2 Apr-Jun 2007 | Date: 26 Aug , 2012
History is seldom a true chronicle of past events. Nations generally interpret history to make their own appear nobler, grander, more glorious or altogether different from current...
Nuclear Powered Submarine for Indian Navy
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol 27.3 Jul-Sep 2012 | Date: 21 Aug , 2012
Early April this year, most recent and most potent submarine, the nuclear-powered INS Chakra was formally inducted into the Indian Navy by Defence Minister A K Antony. The Indian Navy acquired...
Risat-1 ‘Spy Satellite’ Launched
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol 27.3 Jul-Sep 2012 | Date: 21 Aug , 2012
In 2009, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) had launched the RISAT-2, a spy satellite acquired from Israel for $110 million. In the last week of April this year, ISRO successfully...
Air Marshal Dipankar Ganguly takes over as DGMS (AIR)
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Aug , 2012
Air Marshal Dipankar Ganguly VSM & Bar took over as Director General Medical Services (Air) recently. Commissioned on 22 May 1973, Air Marshal Ganguly did his MBBS from Armed Forces Medical...
Preparing India for a Protracted War
By: Col JK Achuthan (Retd.) | Issue: Vol 27.3 Jul-Sep 2012 | Date: 15 Aug , 2012
To sustain the capability to fight a protracted war, it is essential that a significant portion of India’s defence production gets exported. This requires dedicated support from the Ministry of...
Navy’s online Financial Management System to be launched by the Defence...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Aug , 2012
The Defence Minister Mr AK Antony will, tomorrow, dedicate the Indian Navy’s Financial Information System (FIS) to the nation in a ceremony at New Delhi. The Indian Navy,in a first amongst all...
Lt Gen MMS Rai takes over as GOC Desert Corps
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Aug , 2012
Lt Gen Man Mohan Singh Rai, took over as GOC Desert Corps on 09 August 2012. Lt Gen Rai succeeds Lt Gen Philip Campose, who has proceeded on posting to Army Headquarters. General Rai is an...
INS Baaz commissioned as first Naval Air Station in Nicobar Islands
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Aug , 2012
The Naval Air Station at Campbell Bay on Great Nicobar Island, was today commissioned as Indian Naval Ship ‘Baaz’ by Admiral Nirmal Verma, Chairman Chiefs of Staff Committee and the Chief of...
Evolution of the Air-To-Air Missiles: Options for the IAF
By: Air Commodore KB Menon | Issue: Vol. 27.2 Apr-Jun 2012 | Date: 18 Jul , 2012
Cannons once again found their way into the design of fighter planes. The problem with cannons is that they had to be fired at aerial targets from the astern quarters and any manoeuvring by the...
Agni-I Ballistic Missile Successfully Launched
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Jul , 2012
India’s 700 km range ballistic missile, ‘AGNI I’ was successfully launched today from the wheeler island off the coast of Odisha. It was a textbook launch meeting all mission objectives and...
Honeytrap: Media bashing of the Army on false pretext
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Jul , 2012
On July 11, 2012 at approximately 6 pm one of the most responsible news channel in India claimed that an officer of Indian Army was caught in a honeytrap in a five-star hotel by the...
Eurofighter Typhoon Securing Air Space Over London
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Jul , 2012
Eurofighter Typhoons of the Royal Air Force (RAF) will be on high alert during the Olympic Games in order to secure the air space over London. Prior to the start of this international event which...
China’s Ambitions for Space Exploration
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol. 27.2 Apr-Jun 2012 | Date: 28 Jun , 2012
China has announced an ambitious five-year plan to explore outer space. The plan includes Beijing’s previously-stated goals of putting a man on the moon and building a space station. In a...
Six C-130Js Fly together testing skills and capabilities
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Jun , 2012
At the break of dawn early this week the Veiled Vipers (C-130J Squadron) flew six of their aircraft in a tactical formation thereby displaying the operational capability and potential of the...
Indian Navy’s Pan ‘IOR’ Operations Demonstrate Reach of India’s Maritime...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Jun , 2012
Four ships of the Indian Navy’s Eastern Fleet entered Shanghai today on a four day port visit. The four IN ships Rana, Shivalik, Karmukh and Shakti under the command of Rear Admiral P Ajit...
Siachen: The Frozen Frontier in pictures
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Jun , 2012
The land is so barren and the passes so high that only the best of friends or fiercest enemies would want to visit this place. Rugged high peaks with heights from 19,000 ft to 27,000 ft. INDIAN...
The IAF at 79: The Challenges Ahead
By: Gp Capt Joseph Noronha | Date: 01 Jun , 2012
As the IAF strives to confront many challenges, it rightly means to transform itself into a capability-based force, rather than an adversary-centric one. In future, the service may have a critical...
Military Application for Unmanned Aerial Systems in India
By: Air Marshal Narayan Menon | Issue: Vol. 27.2 Apr-Jun 2012 | Date: 30 May , 2012
Undoubtedly the fastest growing segment of military aviation research and development today, Unmanned Aerial Systems offer a host of operational, technical, economic and environmental...
Gold Medallist Doctor took over as DGMS (Navy)
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 May , 2012
Surgeon Vice Admiral Anil Chandra Anand took over as the Director General Medical Services (Navy) on 01 June. A gold medallist from the King George Medical College, Lucknow, he was commissioned in...
Vice Admiral DK Joshi will be the next Navy Chief
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 May , 2012
The Government has appointed Vice Admiral DK Joshi, presently Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief (FOC-in-C) Western Naval Command, as the next Chief of the Naval Staff with effect from afternoon of...