IDR Updates
MQ-8C, the Rotary Wing UAV of the Future?
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Nov , 2013
Earlier this month, at the Navy League’s Sea-Air-Space exposition at National Harbor, Md., a full scale mock-up of Northrop Grumman’s MQ-8C, the unmanned platform that is to succeed the...
Third-Generation Tilt-rotor V-280 by Bell
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Nov , 2013
At the annual US Army Aviation symposium, Quad-A, Bell’s V-280 Valor third generation tilt-rotor helicopter was unveiled by John Garrison, President and CEO, Bell Helicopter. The V-280 is...
US Army – UAH to Collaborate on Developing Next-Gen UAS
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Nov , 2013
The US Army’s Unmanned Aircraft Systems Project Management Office (PM UAS) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) to promote the development...
USAF to Launch $555 Million Unmanned Modernization Project
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Nov , 2013
Northrop Grumman has been awarded a $555.6 million contract to modernize the USAF’s fleet of Global Hawk Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). The Department of Defense (DoD) stated that the...
Researchers Unveil Thought-Controlled Drone
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Nov , 2013
Researchers at the University of Minnesota have revealed a drone that can be controlled merely by thought. Published in the Journal of Neuro Engineering, the project has implications in everything...
Successor to the Blackhawk?
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Nov , 2013
Looking to purchase its next high-speed helicopter, the US Army has recently chosen the JMR MPS design put forth by AVX Aircraft Company, for its Joint Multi-Role Technology Demonstrator (JMR-TD)...
US Navy’s First F-35C Delivered by Lockheed Martin
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Nov , 2013
Lockheed Martin has also delivered the first CF-6, the Lockheed Martin F-35C Lightning II Navy Carrier Variant (CV) aircraft at Strike Fighter Squadron 101 at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. The CF-6...
China’s Asian Age Depends on Spliting India?
By: Danvir Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Nov , 2013
Zhan Lue, in his article published by the China International Institute for Strategic Studies on 8 August 2009 titled “If China takes a little action, the so called Great Indian Federation can...
The Chinese Incursion: Need to Introspect
By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa | Issue: Vol. 28.2 Apr-Jun 2013 | Date: 04 Nov , 2013
Robert Kaplan in his book “The Revenge of Geography” suggests that, “India’s rivalry with China is not like the one with Pakistan: it is more abstract, less emotional, and (far more...
India- China: BDCA Unexplained
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Nov , 2013
Following the signing of the BDCA between India and China, much has been written. The follow up official explanation extols great strides having been made by introducing the four ‘concepts’...
US-India Defence Trade: Sizing up the competition
By: Col Woolf P Gross | Issue: Vol. 27.2 Apr-Jun 2012 | Date: 30 Oct , 2013
American defence suppliers realise that India is perhaps the largest potential market open to them in the world today. But so do all the competition. This is not a market in which to make a quick...
Western Fleet of Indian Navy manoeuvers in littorals off Gujarat and...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Oct , 2013
A large scale annual operational exercise of the Western Naval Command of the Indian Navy will conclude tomorrow off the littorals of Gujarat and Maharashtra. The week long exercise termed...
North-East India: Its place in the National Security Calculus
By: PM Heblikar | Issue: Vol. 28.3 Jul-Sep 2013 | Date: 29 Oct , 2013
There has been no major change in the military architecture in India’s Northeast region since 1962. In a strategic sense, India has remained more in a defensive posture all along the sensitive...
Disaster Management: Why the Army continues to take the Lead
By: Lt Gen Vijay Oberoi | Issue: Vol. 28.3 Jul-Sep 2013 | Date: 28 Oct , 2013
Conceptually, the armed forces ought to be called to aid the civil authorities only when the situation is beyond the capability of the civil administration. In practice, however, the armed forces...
Boeing delivers Indian Air Force’s 4th C-17 Globemaster III
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Oct , 2013
The Indian Air Force’s (IAF) fourth Boeing C-17 Globemaster III departs for India from Long Beach on Oct. 19, keeping the company on track to deliver a total of five advanced airlifters to the...
IAF launches its 3 G WCDMA Cellular Network Project
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Oct , 2013
The Indian Air Force launched its 3 G Cellular Network named AFCEL (Air Force Cellular) today, becoming first among the services to have commissioned its own captive 3 G network. Inaugurated by...
China-Pakistan double trouble for India
By: Brig Arun Bajpai | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Oct , 2013
Indian political establishment, duly advised by Babus who staff the Ministry of Defence on the pretext of civilian control over military, with both of them having no knowledge of matters...
Airbus Military signs additional contract with Kazakhstan for more C295...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Oct , 2013
Airbus Military has signed a contract with Kazspecexport, a State Company belonging to the Ministry of Defence of Kazakhstan, to supply two C295 military transport aircraft plus the related...
MARINS chosen for the UK’s new carriers
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Oct , 2013
iXBlue has been selected to provide inertial navigation systems for the two Queen Elizabeth class aircraft carriers currently being built by the Aircraft Carrier Alliance for the UK Royal Navy....
BDCA – Another Self Inflicted Wound
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Date: 23 Oct , 2013
The brouhaha about India having signed the BDCA agreement with China actually is a self-inflicted wound though providing satisfaction to Prime Minister Manhohan Singh that he too inked a border...