IDR Updates
Lockheed Martin Showcases Transformer UAS
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Jan , 2014
Lockheed Martin and Piasecki Aircraft are in Phase III of a Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) contract to develop a prototype of what could be the next generation of unmanned...
Chinese Unmanned Aerial Systems Displayed in the US
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Jan , 2014
A range of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) designed and developed by Ewatt, a Wuhan, Hubei Province-based company of China, made their appearance for the first time in the US at the Association for...
Harop Loitering Munitions System for the IAF
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Jan , 2014
The Indian Air Force (IAF) is set to purchase the Harop Loitering Munitions System from the Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) with deliveries commencing next year. Capable of being launched from...
2014 में रक्षा की प्राथमिकताएं
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Courtesy: Rashtriya Sahara | Date: 06 Jan , 2014
हमारे देश में हर चीज के साथ ही असंगत दृष्टिकोण अपनाया जाता है। हम मुकम्मल...
Infrastructure in the IAF: A Force Multiplier
By: Air Marshal Raghu Rajan | Issue: Vol. 28.4 Oct-Dec 2013 | Date: 04 Jan , 2014
Due to its long gestation period, infrastructure needs advance and integrated planning amongst the three services and civil agencies to ensure that the end result is cost-effective without...
AgustaWestland welcomes the Government of India’s Nomination of an Arbitrator
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Jan , 2014
AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica company, confirms to have received yesterday from India’s Ministry of Defence a notification concerning the appointment of an arbitrator from its side, as...
Slow Pace of Army Modernization
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Jan , 2014
Strange as it may seem, Indian genius can successfully launch multiple satellites or a spacecraft to Mars but seems hopelessly ill-equipped to develop a basic armament such as a rifle, carbine or...
Challenges Facing Civil Aviation in India
By: Robert S Metzger | Issue: Vol. 28.4 Oct-Dec 2013 | Date: 01 Jan , 2014
Civil aviation in India may be taken as a study in contrasts. Despite extraordinary growth in traffic, most of India’s airlines are in a precarious condition. Despite forecasts that India will...
Fixing the Fault Lines in 2014
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Courtesy: Mail Today | Date: 30 Dec , 2013
Our major foreign policy challenges are enduring and no dramatic change in our security environment is likely in 2014. Relations with Pakistan could actually worsen. Nawaz Sharif is focusing on...
Military and the Media
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Dec , 2013
The Lucknow Literature Carnival 2013 held from 6 to 8 December for the first time had a full session on Defence Writing. It generated quite a bit of enthusiasm in the journalistic circles. What...
Games Nations Play: Chinese Assertiveness & America’s Re-balancing
By: Brig Amar Cheema | Issue: Vol. 28.4 Oct-Dec 2013 | Date: 28 Dec , 2013
Realpolitik dictates a policy of ‘congagement’ of China and explains America’s reasons for accommodating the former at the grand table. Thus, while the US-Chinese relationship is expected...
India’s First Supersonic Jet MiG-21
By: Joydeep Dasgupta | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 27 Dec , 2013
Every one of us wants to fly high above the sky and therefore our fascination towards the sky always remains in our dreams and therefore we keep watching aircraft and feel envy of them. There...
Terror and Violence in China
By: Dr Sudhir Hindwan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Dec , 2013
The recent skirmishes between the Chinese security forces and the separatist Uygur Muslims in the Xinjiang province on Tuesday have once again created vulnerable ground for serious ethnic crisis...
The Ray of Death: Directed-Energy Weapons
By: Gp Capt Joseph Noronha | Issue: Vol. 28.4 Oct-Dec 2013 | Date: 25 Dec , 2013
Why do laser guns and other DEW devices seem so much more attractive than conventional projectile weapons such as guns and missiles? For one thing, DEWs can be precisely targeted. It is claimed...
Submarines: Pride of Oceanic Depths
By: Joydeep Dasgupta | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 24 Dec , 2013
Aircraft carriers and other warships are all visible platforms on sea. However, navies worldwide operate vessels that are largely unseen, which lurk undetected beneath the sea but are capable of...
Managing the neighbours
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Courtesy: The Telegraph | Date: 23 Dec , 2013
India’s search for a successful neighbourhood policy continues. Sections of our society are anxious about our failure to manage our relations with neighbours properly. We tend to blame...
Christmas message for the Soldier
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Dec , 2013
It’was the night before Christmas, he lived all alone, In a one bedroom house, made of plaster and stone. I had come down the chimney, with presents to give, And to see just who, in this...
Chinese Innovations
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Vol. 28.4 Oct-Dec 2013 | Date: 20 Dec , 2013
When Steve Jobs passed away, experts debated as to why China did not produce its own Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, or Mark Zuckerberg? One contributor to Forbes explained that the emergence of such...
US: Bullying Not Diplomacy
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Dec , 2013
The arrest and hand-cuffing of India’s Deputy Consul General (DCG) Devyani Khobragade in New York as if she is a criminal with all the intrusive personal indignities heaped on a “felon” by...
Border Defence Cooperation Agreement Kaput!
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Dec , 2013
If the ruling coterie was looking for brownie points for the coming elections by hyping that signing of the BDCA with China had put at rest all border problems till eventual peaceful resolution,...