IDR Updates
Border Defence Cooperation Agreement (BDCA) between India and China
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Oct , 2013
The Government of the Republic of India and the Government of the People’s Republic of China (hereinafter referred to as the ‘two sides’), Firmly believing that the India-China Strategic...
Inside 1962 War
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Oct , 2013
During 1962 War, India had adequate army brigades in reserve to launch a counter attack in coordination with the Air Force. The Chinese Air Force was weak in comparison and positioned far away...
Weaponisation of Space
By: Air Marshal Narayan Menon | Issue: Vol. 28.3 Jul-Sep 2013 | Date: 19 Oct , 2013
Weaponisation of space would include space control and space-based systems that could destroy targets on the earth’s surface. Space control involves protecting own systems in orbit, attacking...
The Army – What’s gone wrong?
By: Karan Kharb | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Oct , 2013
The Indian Army, besides being the world’s third largest, enjoys a unique status of professional excellence. There is no other army in the world that is as battle hardened as the Indian Army...
Integrated Theatre Commands
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Vol. 28.3 Jul-Sep 2013 | Date: 15 Oct , 2013
Jointness and integration of the Military is an inevitable requirement for the modern day battlefield. The biggest challenge to jointness is to bring about an attitudinal shift by turning the...
China’s Interests in Shaksgam Valley
By: Senge H. Sering | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Oct , 2013
Chinese nationals are once again in the newspapers of Gilgit-Baltistan, this time for smuggling heavy precious metals and gems out of the region. To date, China occupies more than 20,000 square...
First Production AW189 Performs its Maiden Flight
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Oct , 2013
AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica company, is pleased to announce that the first production AW189 8 tonne class twin engine helicopter performed its maiden flight at Vergiate plant (Italy) today....
$4.9 billion Contract for 99 V-22 Ospreys
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Oct , 2013
Under terms of a $4.9 billion contract, the US Navy is ordering 99 V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft from Bell-Boeing for the USAF and Marine Corps. The contract also gives the US Navy an option to...
30 Mi-17s for US Army for Operations in Afghanistan
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Oct , 2013
In a contract worth $572.2 million, the US Army plans to acquire 30 Russian-made medium-lift military attack helicopters which perform particularly well in the hot weather and high altitudes of...
Lockheed Martin delivers third F-35 for RAF
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Oct , 2013
The third F-35B Short Takeoff/Vertical Landing (STOVL) Lightning II for the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence has been delivered by Lockheed Martin (LM). The aircraft, known as BK-3 (ZM137),...
Navy Completes First X-47B Arrested Landing
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Oct , 2013
The first arrested landing onto an aircraft carrier with Northrop Grumman’s X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) has been conducted by the US Navy. The X-47B, with a 62-foot wingspan and...
Boeing Delivers 5th Canadian CH-147F Chinook Helicopter
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Oct , 2013
Boeing has delivered the Royal Canadian Air Force's (RCAF) fifth CH-147F Chinook helicopter one month ahead of schedule and only three months after the arrival of the first in June, expanding...
Pak Regulars Combine with LeT, Mujahids, and Taliban against India
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Oct , 2013
It is not surprising that India’s lack of strategic culture denies policy makers to think beyond Border Action Teams (BAT). Whether the BAT obsession is because of the penchant for cricket...
MBDA’s Sea Ceptor Air Defence System Selected for Royal New Zealand
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Oct , 2013
The New Zealand MoD has confirmed its preferred tenderers for the Royal New Zealand Navy’s (RNZN) ANZAC Frigate Systems Upgrade project to include MBDA as the provider of Sea Ceptor for the...
Elbit awarded $33 million contract for the supply of Electro-optical...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Oct , 2013
Elbit Systems announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Elbit Systems Electro-optics – Elop Ltd. (Elop), was awarded a follow-on contract to supply its advanced Digital CoMPASS®...
UCAV: Airborne Without a Pilot
By: Gp Capt Joseph Noronha | Issue: Vol. 28.3 Jul-Sep 2013 | Date: 05 Oct , 2013
It seems likely that UCAVs will supplement manned aviation in a growing number of operational situations. The main reason is the capability UCAVs offer to mount a lethal attack without...
Another Kargil in Keran Sector ?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Oct , 2013
You don’t require a genius to tell you that the serious intrusion in Keran Sector that has been ongoing since 23rd September, even before the terrorist attacks on Hira Nagar Police Station and...
Strategy for incremental influence in Asia
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol 17.4 Oct-Dec 2002 | Date: 03 Oct , 2013
In the unfolding geopolitical scenario, two major forces are driving the world today: modernisation and globalisation on one hand and terrorism on the other. The attacks on America on September...
What National Security ?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Oct , 2013
Not having a National Security Strategy is a terrific boon to the hierarchy, for where is the question of accountability. Without a strategy, national security can flow the way it wants, whose...
Is al-Qaeda Waning?
By: Col US Rathore | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 01 Oct , 2013
Al-Qaeda came into being in 1988-89, in Peshawar, Pakistan. The nine-year-long Soviet occupation of Afghanistan had turned into an ignominious retreat at the hands of Mujahedeen and Taliban....