IDR Updates
Dialogue With Pak A Trap
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Courtesy: Mail Today | Date: 13 Aug , 2013
Our response to the killing of five Indian soldiers last week by the Pakistanis inside our Line of Control has again shown our inability to deal effectively with the dual issue of dialoguing with...
‘Vikrant’ Reborn in Indigenous Avtar
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Aug , 2013
Amidst chanting of hymns from the Atharva Veda, Vikrant, India’s first aircraft carrier, decommissioned on 31 January 1997, was reborn today as Smt Elizabeth Antony, wife of the Defence...
Prithvi-II missile hits target in a flawless user mission
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Aug , 2013
A missile unit of the Strategic Forces Command (SFC) today morning successfully launched the indigenously developed surface-to-surface/ nuclear capable Prithvi II missile with a strike range of...
Simulation and Training: The IAF Perspective
By: Air Marshal Dhiraj Kukreja | Issue: Vol. 28.2 Apr-Jun 2013 | Date: 12 Aug , 2013
“Simulators go a long way in ensuring that a pilot learns about systems under simulation before he actually uses these on-board an aircraft thus saving precious flying hours. Apart from...
India’s Quest for an Indigenous Aircraft Carrier
By: Admiral Arun Prakash (Retd.) | Issue: Vol 21.3 Jul-Sep 2006 | Date: 12 Aug , 2013
It was indeed fortuitous for our navy that at the moment of India’s independence, those charged with planning for the nation’s embryonic maritime force included many men of vision. In 1948,...
Strangling Self Esteem
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Aug , 2013
The Defence Minister’s flip flop statements and eventfully blaming the Pakistani Army for the barbaric killing of five India soldiers through a cross-border raid yet again indicates the bane...
Boeing, US Navy Demo New Targeting and Data Systems on EA-18G
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Aug , 2013
Advanced technologies will significantly improve Growler's targeting capabilities The U.S. Navy recently flew Boeing EA-18G Growler aircraft with sensor system upgrades and its newest data...
Cassidian’s flexible radar sensor concept confirmed in flight tests
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Aug , 2013
. Software-defined “SmartRadar” detects targets over land and sea with maximum resolution Easily adaptable for various manned and unmanned platforms Cassidian, the defence and security...
How not to deal with Pakistan
By: Lt Gen NS Malik | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Aug , 2013
The dastardly act on the part of Pakistan Army on the LOC by ambushing a night patrol of 21 BIHAR and killing five soldiers is not only condemnable, but absolutely unacceptable in terms of...
Maiden Flight of China’s Y-20 Air Freighter
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Aug , 2013
China’s Ministry of National Defence has confirmed that the maiden flight of its first domestically developed four-engine heavy military transport aircraft designated as the Y-20, was carried...
Navy’s Boeing P8I Touches Down at the Emerald Islands
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Aug , 2013
The Boeing P8I, a Long Range Maritime Reconnaissance Anti-submarine Warfare (LRMR/ASW) aircraft of the Indian Navy, made its maiden landing at the INS Utkrosh airfield on Tuesday, 06 Aug 13....
Pakistan needs firm handling not niceties
By: Lt Gen Harwant Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Aug , 2013
The recent killing of four soldiers and one junior commissioned officer near the LoC in the Poonch sector of J&K is yet another serious violation of peace along this line. For Pakistan army to...
The time to trust Pakistan is long gone
By: Dr Amarjit Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Aug , 2013
Nawaz Sharif set media wires buzzing when he proclaimed soon after the results of Pakistan’s elections were announced last month that he aims to (a) make peace with the terrorist outfits in...
Reading China on Sino-Indian Border Issue
By: Bhaskar Roy | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 06 Aug , 2013
The Chinese communist leadership has perfected the act of saying things and giving signals, leaving it to the other side to decipher and understand Their internal speeches and documents are...
Airbus Military delivers first A400M to French Air Force
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Aug , 2013
Airbus Military has today formally delivered the first A400M new generation airlifter, which is known in French service as the A400M Atlas, to the French Air Force, a milestone marking the...
Iran Unveils New Combat Aircraft
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Aug , 2013
In February this year, Iran unveiled a combat jet dubbed the Qaher (Conqueror) F-313 claimed by it to be designed by Iranian aerospace engineers. The unveiling coincides with the 34th anniversary...
Second Flight by Boeing’s Phantom Eye UAS
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Aug , 2013
In February this year, the Phantom Eye Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) from Boeing made its second flight at Edwards Air Force Base, California. The liquid-hydrogen powered UAS climbed to an...
US Navy, Boeing Sign $2 Billion Order for 13 P-8A Poseidon Aircraft
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Aug , 2013
The U.S. Navy recently awarded Boeinga $1.98 billion contract for 13 additional P-8A Poseidon aircraft, continuing the modernization of U.S. maritime patrol capabilities that will ultimately...
Feeding China, Indian Territory
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Aug , 2013
Post his recent trip to India, US Army Chief of Staff General Raymond T Odierno has described the India Army the most influential in Asia Pacific. Browse the web for the 10 most powerful...
Army rescues villagers stranded due to floods in Jhansi
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 31 Jul , 2013
On being requested by the Civil Administration in Lalitpur and Paricha, Army columns and helicopters were moved in to rescue villagers stranded due to floods in Betwa River in Jhansi region on 29...