IDR Updates
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,...
Equipping Cutting Edge Infantry
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Vol. 28.4 Oct-Dec 2013 | Date: 17 Dec , 2013
Infantry modernisation has not received due importance in past decades. This must be treated as an ‘emergent’ requirement in consideration of the emerging threats from within and outside the...
MKU participates in MSME Defexpo 2013
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Dec , 2013
MKU is participating in the MSME Defexpo 2013 to explore opportunities in the Indian market for sales and partnerships. The company has over 25 years of experience in providing protection and...
Eastern Ladakh: Can India Afford the Luxury of Inaction?
By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa | Issue: Vol. 28.4 Oct-Dec 2013 | Date: 14 Dec , 2013
The Armed Forces are India’s “hard-power” assets and not a tool for diplomacy on the borders. Deployment of an armed force to support a diplomatic effort is axiomatic as it lends strength...
Boeing Wideband Satellite improves Military Communication
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Dec , 2013
The sixth Boeing Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellite, funded by the Commonwealth of Australia – the program’s first partner outside the United States – has been delivered on orbit to the...
India’s Energy Security: Role of Offshore Helicopter Operations
By: Gp Capt AK Sachdev | Issue: Vol. 28.3 Jul-Sep 2013 | Date: 13 Dec , 2013
The helicopter is the workhorse for the off-shore oil and gas exploration and production industry. The ever-increasing demand for energy, ever escalating prices of crude oil and the discovered...
Leadership Changes in Pakistan: Portents for the Future
By: Maj Gen Dhruv C Katoch | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 11 Dec , 2013
Pakistan’s Army Chief, General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani finally demitted office on 28 November 2013, ending weeks of speculation. General Raheel Sharif has replaced him, marking an important change...
Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey for In-Flight Refuelling
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Dec , 2013
The V-22 Osprey tilt rotor aircraft, a product of strategic alliance between Bell Helicopter, a wholly owned subsidiary of Textron Inc. company and Boeing Defense, Space & Security, successfully...
Eurofighter Typhoon Jets for Saudi Arabia
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Dec , 2013
BAE Systems expects to conclude with the government of Saudi Arabia, a long-awaited multi-billion dollar contract for the supply of 72 Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jets by the end of the current...
Mini Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Jammu and Kashmir
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Dec , 2013
The General Officer Commanding-in-Chief (GoC-in-C) Northern Command of the Indian Army has floated a global tender with a Request for Proposal (RFP) inviting bids from Original Equipment...
Permanent Chairman COSC : MoD’s Triumph
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Dec , 2013
Whatever cooks in North and South Blocks, some scents have the tendency to seep through the walls no matter how tight the windows are shut. So one fine day comes this article that the government...
Eurofighter Typhoon: Flight tests with Storm Shadow missile started
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Nov , 2013
Eurofighter Partner Company Alenia Aermacchi has confirmed that the first in a major series of flight tests to integrate the MBDA Storm Shadow missile onto Eurofighter Typhoon has now taken...
The Royal Netherlands Navy Takes Delivery NH90 NFH Fleet
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Nov , 2013
AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica company, is pleased to announce that the Royal Netherlands Navy (RNLN) has taken delivery of a Mission Planning & Analysis System (MPAS) in the Final Operative...
China’s Strategic Overture to Japan
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Nov , 2013
China has added another chapter to her “peaceful” rise by declaring another “defensive” measure; that all non-commercial aircraft entering a broad zone over the East China Sea must first...
Boeing Delivers C-17 Cargo Compartment Trainer to Royal Australian Air Force
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Nov , 2013
Boeing has delivered a full-scale C-17 Globemaster III Cargo Compartment Trainer (CCT) to the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), ensuring that RAAF loadmaster training can be cost-effectively...