Military & Aerospace
INS VIRAAT: 25 Years of Glorious Service
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 May , 2012
On 12 May 1987 HMS Hermes became INS Viraat under the command of Capt (later Vice Admiral) Vinod Pasricha. Born in Nov 1959 as HMS Hermes, INS Viraat took avatar after completing 28 years under...
Air Marshal Rajinder Singh takes over the Command of Training Command
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 May , 2012
Air Marshal Rajinder Singh AVSM VM took over as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Training Command, Bangalore today, on 1st March 2012. He was commissioned in the Indian Air Force in December 1974...
Air Marshal Punches Out of Doomed Mirage
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 May , 2012
He's the senior most Indian Air Force officer ever to eject. Air Marshal Anil Chopra, currently Air Officer in charge of Personnel (AOP) at IAF HQ punched out of a Dassault Mirage 2000TH...
Why countries go for ballistic missiles?
By: Upendra Chaudhary | Issue: Vol. 13.2 April-June 1998 | Date: 14 May , 2012
The nuclear tests by India and Pakistan have not only made these countries full-fledged nuclear weapon states but also increased the importance of their ballistic missiles which are capable of...
INS Dweeprakshak Commissioned on Kavaratti in Lakshadweep
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Apr , 2012
INS Dweeprakshak, the latest Naval Base of Indian Navy was commissioned at Kavaratti in the Lakshadweep archipelago today by Vice Admiral KN Sushil, Flag Officer Commanding in Chief Southern Naval...
India’s new stealth frigate INS Teg
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Apr , 2012
INS Teg, is a modern and contemporary Warship with advanced technologies incorporated in every facet of design to make her stable, stealthy, fast and formidable. A versatile and capable vessel,...
How Bofors Affairs Transformed India
By: Lt Gen M Mayadas | Issue: Book Excerpt: How Bofors Affairs Transformed India | Date: 26 Apr , 2012
Important factors considered by the TEC while comparing the characteristics of the four gun systems. Range. During the 1981 trials in India, the Bofors achieved a range of 15 kms, during which,...
India’s Spy Satellite RISAT-1
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Apr , 2012
Radar Imaging Satellite-1 (RISAT-1) is a state of the art Microwave Remote Sensing Satellite carrying a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) payload operating in C-band (5.35 GHz), which enables imaging...
A patriotic act!
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Apr , 2012
Airline Lunches I put my carry-on in the luggage compartment and sat down in my assigned seat. It was going to be a long flight from Gatwick. 'I'm glad I have a good book to read Perhaps I will...
Pallam Raju Inaugurates BRO’s longest bridge in Arunachal
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Apr , 2012
The Border Roads Organisation (BRO) has built a 720-meters-long bridge in Arunachal Pradesh. The Digaru bridge, linking Lohit and Dibang valley, was inaugurated by Minister of State for Defence...
Nuke attack submarine Chakra inducted
By: IDR News Network | Date: 11 Apr , 2012
INS Chakra, a nuclear powered attack submarine of the Akula class was formally inducted into the Indian Navy by Defence Minister AK Antony on 4 Apr 12, at Visakhapatnam, in the presence of MoS MM...
Design and Construction of Warships
By: Cmde KN Vaidyanathan | Issue: Vol 22.1 Jan - Mar 2007 | Date: 11 Apr , 2012
The issues discussed in this article are globally relevant: they are more specific to the Indian Navy and warship design and building in India. The tides of change that are sweeping India and the...
Air Chief to visit Bangladesh
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Mar , 2012
Air Chief Marshal NAK Browne, Chief of the Air Staff, leaves New Delhi on a four day visit to Bangladesh tomorrow. During this defence cooperation visit to reinforce defence ties, the Air Chief...
AFSPA – A Recommended Solution
By: Col Vivek Chadha (Retd.) | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 20 Feb , 2012
The chief minister of J&K, Omar Abdullah, demanded the removal of the AFSPA1 from certain areas of the state. The indication, according to media reports, is the districts of Srinagar, Budgam,...
Parameters for Indian Army 2020
By: Lt Gen Vinay Shankar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Feb , 2012
Recently under the aegis of the Army a seminar was conducted to discuss the shape, size and structure of our Army in 2020. The scope of the seminar also included an assessment of emerging...
IAF Chief Leads Delegation to Singapore
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Feb , 2012
Air Chief Marshal NAK Browne, Chief of the Air Staff, is on a, four day Defence Cooperation visit to Singapore from 13 Feb 2012. Leading a Composite Defence Delegation to Singapore, the Air...
Future of Aerospace Power
By: Admiral Arun Prakash (Retd.) | Issue: Vol 22.2 Apr-Jun 2007 | Date: 13 Feb , 2012
Let me start by being the devil’s advocate and making two points to this audience. One: that this seminar is about “Aerospace Power” and not “Air Force Power”. The army and the navy,...
China preaches non-violence …to others
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Feb , 2012
The Chinese are apparently unhappy with the selection of the multipurpose combat plane Rafalefor the Indian Air Force. It is what appears from an article in the People’s Daily (French...
Indian Navy: challenges beyond the horizon
By: Vice Adm RN Ganesh | Issue: Vol 23.1 Jan-Mar 2008 | Date: 06 Feb , 2012
The Currency of Power: In the mid-1980s many commentators predicted the end of the role of military force as the “currency of power”. Subsequent decades were however marked by global changes...
Will China threat last beyond two years?
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Jan , 2012
A strange and amazing question to stall military expansion programme has been raised by the Finance Ministry to the Defence Ministry today: Will China threat last beyond two years? What it...