IDR Updates
Ballistic Missiles and NBC Weapon Programme of North Korea
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Book Excerpt: Asian Strategy and Military Perspective | Date: 04 Jan , 2013
North Korea’s missile development programme began in the 1970s and is totally predicated on reverse engineering. To begin with, it reverse engineered Frog-5 missiles and Soviet made Scud-B...
Sky Rider to be integrated within the Digital Army Programs
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Jan , 2013
The "Sky Rider" Unit is upgrading capabilities: A new version of the UAS will improve visual performance • Introducing: Connecting the Unit’s airborne equipment to the DAP system...
Air defence missile IRIS-T SL tested successfully
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Jan , 2013
In early December 2012, a prototype of the IRIS-T SL guided missile of Diehl Defence successfully homed in on a target in a firing test performed at the Overberg Test Range in South Africa in the...
MMRCA and the Indian Air Force
By: Air Marshal Raghu Rajan | Issue: Vol. 26.4 Oct-Dec 2011 | Date: 03 Jan , 2013
The MMRCA as a first step, will enable the IAF to hold its own against the PAF, and when it reaches its authorised strength, to face the PLAAF. The technical evaluation process has been...
Pipavav-DCNS to Build Warships
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol. 27.4 Oct-Dec 2012 | Date: 01 Jan , 2013
Pipavav Defence and Offshore Engineering Company Limited, a leading company in the Indian Defence Sector, has teamed up with French company DCNS, a world leader in naval defence, energy systems,...
Stealth Frigates for the Indian Navy
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol. 27.4 Oct-Dec 2012 | Date: 01 Jan , 2013
As per the Indian Minister of Defence, A.K Antony, the Indian Navy (IN) will get seven more indigenous stealth frigate warships to give the IN a stealthy power punch. INS Sahyadri, the last of...
Embraer AEW&C Aircraft for India
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol. 27.4 Oct-Dec 2012 | Date: 01 Jan , 2013
Taking delivery of the first Embraer 145 Airborne Early Warning and Control Aircraft (AEW&C) built with Indian technology, India today took a major step in mounting an electronic eye in the sky....
Sale of F-16 Fighters to Taiwan
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol. 27.4 Oct-Dec 2012 | Date: 01 Jan , 2013
In a move that could further rile relations with China, the White House is considering a change in policy toward the sale of F-16C/D fighters to Taiwan. White House Director of Legislative...
Bedrock of Airpower: A Sound National Aerospace Policy
By: Air Marshal B D Jayal | Issue: Courtesy: The Telegraph | Date: 01 Jan , 2013
It is typical of the Indian security system, that only in times of security crises, does the nation wake up to gross weaknesses in re equipping of the armed forces. Recall the Kargil conflict,...
Elbit Systems Awarded Israel MoD contracts to Supply Various Systems
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 31 Dec , 2012
Elbit Systems Ltd. ("Elbit Systems") announced that it was awarded various contracts by the Israel Ministry of Defense ("IMOD"), in a number of fields of activity for a total value of...
42 Combat Squadrons for the IAF
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol. 27.4 Oct-Dec 2012 | Date: 31 Dec , 2012
The IAF has plans to build up its strength of combat squadrons to 42 over the next five years as against the current level of 34. “We are more than Pakistan at this time, it’s not just...
Northrop Grumman Awarded NATO UAS Contract
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol. 27.4 Oct-Dec 2012 | Date: 31 Dec , 2012
Northrop Grumman signed a $1.7 billion contract to provide five Block 40 Global Hawk Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) for NATO’s Alliance Ground Surveillance (AGS) system. Operating under NATO...
Russia and Israel Set to Build New Drone
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol. 27.4 Oct-Dec 2012 | Date: 31 Dec , 2012
Russia and Israel are negotiating to build an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) as a joint venture project. The aim is to initiate technological cooperation and to develop a product that will be used...
Air Power against the Maoists
By: Air Marshal Narayan Menon | Issue: Vol. 27.4 Oct-Dec 2012 | Date: 30 Dec , 2012
Employment of air power to search and destroy targets has been carried out on a very large scale in Afghanistan and Pakistan by the US forces. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Unmanned Combat...
Towards Better Ties: But nothing to show forward movement
By: Sunita Vakil | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 30 Dec , 2012
The road to Indo-Pakistan detente taken in the recent past has seen pleasant surprises keeping the peace process chugging along. The bilateral talk between the two countries last week to...
Deportation issues for Illegal Bangladeshi Immigrants
By: Kahnu Nanda | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 29 Dec , 2012
Gadaharishpur Panchayat is a stunningly green and beautiful patch of land on the periphery of coastal Erasama Block of Jagatsinghpur District populated by Bengali-speaking Muslims, accused of...
Is there a need for fresh ‘code of ethics’ for the Armed Forces?
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Dec , 2012
As part of the wider motive to inculcate a culture of academic discussion on the subject of defence studies and issues of war and ethics, the students of National Law School of India University,...
Boeing to Provide 2 More C-40A Transport Aircraft to US Navy
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Dec , 2012
Boeing has received a $145 million order from the U.S. Navy for two additional C-40A Clipper transport aircraft, increasing the service's ability to move military personnel and cargo around the...
US India Pakistan – The Eternal Triangle
By: Vikram Sood | Issue: Courtesy: MidDay Mumbai | Date: 27 Dec , 2012
President Barack Obama will soon be sitting with his team to prioritise his to-do-list for his legacy that will be intertwined with how he handles his country’s strategic and national concerns....
Disputes in the South China Sea
By: Maj Gen PK Chakravorty | Issue: Vol. 27.4 Oct-Dec 2012 | Date: 25 Dec , 2012
Prior to analysing the dispute it is important to understand the UN Law of the Sea. The 1982 Convention on the Law of Seas has numerous guidelines pertaining to islands, the continental shelf,...