IDR Updates
Indian sailors and FBI bring to justice high ranking Somali pirates
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Aug , 2012
Mohammad Saaili Shibin, the Somali pirate responsible for negotiating the ransom of Indian seafarers and other seafarers and the sea vessels S/V Quest and M/V Marida Marguerite, was sentenced in...
India’s Foreign Policy: Right Choice of Friends
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Aug , 2012
A new debate has started on the nature of a redefined Indian foreign policy that takes into account the country’s transformed relations with the United States of America. The latter is openly...
Dealing with Pakistan
By: Lt Gen HC Dutta | Issue: Vol 24.1 Jan-Mar 2009 | Date: 22 Aug , 2012
The terror attacks of 26/11 on Mumbai have left the nation traumatized. People are angry and confused and are awestruck by the sheer audacity and ferocity of a commando type raid at the very...
Nuclear Powered Submarine for Indian Navy
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol 27.3 Jul-Sep 2012 | Date: 21 Aug , 2012
Early April this year, most recent and most potent submarine, the nuclear-powered INS Chakra was formally inducted into the Indian Navy by Defence Minister A K Antony. The Indian Navy acquired...
Risat-1 ‘Spy Satellite’ Launched
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol 27.3 Jul-Sep 2012 | Date: 21 Aug , 2012
In 2009, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) had launched the RISAT-2, a spy satellite acquired from Israel for $110 million. In the last week of April this year, ISRO successfully...
15-Year Defence Purchase Plan Cleared
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol 27.3 Jul-Sep 2012 | Date: 21 Aug , 2012
The Ministry of Defence has finally cleared a 15-year Long-Term Integrated Perspective Plan (LTIPP), following the Army Chief, General V K Singh’s sensational leak of the letter to Prime...
Puma UAS Systems in Afghanistan
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol 27.3 Jul-Sep 2012 | Date: 21 Aug , 2012
California-based AeroVironment has received from the US Army an order for the immediate delivery of RQ-20A Puma AE small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) for intelligence, surveillance and...
Alenia Aeronautica C27J Spartan military transport aircraft
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol 27.3 Jul-Sep 2012 | Date: 21 Aug , 2012
The Alenia Aeronautica C27J Spartan twin-engine military transport aircraft has proved to be an ideal supply delivery platform in the ongoing war in Afghanistan. The C27J can operate in adverse...
Pakistan unleashes Cyber War on India
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Aug , 2012
The next generation of warfare, the cyber war can not only disrupt data-links, electronic devices and networks, but can also create panic by use of the social media as we witnessed in the mass...
The Chinese are coming!
By: Lt Gen JFR Jacob | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Aug , 2012
The Dragon has emerged from its lair with a vengeance. A senior Indian army officer was denied an official Chinese visa on the grounds that he was commanding in Jammu and Kashmir, a disputed...
Air Marshal Dipankar Ganguly takes over as DGMS (AIR)
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Aug , 2012
Air Marshal Dipankar Ganguly VSM & Bar took over as Director General Medical Services (Air) recently. Commissioned on 22 May 1973, Air Marshal Ganguly did his MBBS from Armed Forces Medical...
Psy-jihad against people from the Northeast
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Aug , 2012
What we have been seeing since May, 2012, is a proxy jihad through the Internet and modern means of communications such as the cell phone and I-pad being waged by a new generation of IT savvy...
Boeing Marks 50 Years of Delivering Chinook Helicopters
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Aug , 2012
Boeing investing $130M in factory to meet global demand As Boeing marks the 50th anniversary of delivering the first H-47 Chinook military helicopter, the company is nearing completion of a $130...
NASA’S Curiosity Rover mission supported by TE Connectivity’s Kilovac...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Aug , 2012
NASA’s Curiosity rover landed in the Gale Crater on Mars on August 5, having flown over 127 million miles since its November 26, 2011 launch from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in...
Preparing India for a Protracted War
By: Col JK Achuthan (Retd.) | Issue: Vol 27.3 Jul-Sep 2012 | Date: 15 Aug , 2012
To sustain the capability to fight a protracted war, it is essential that a significant portion of India’s defence production gets exported. This requires dedicated support from the Ministry of...
Arab Spring: A Mirage – II
By: Nilofar Suhrawardy | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 14 Aug , 2012
Democratic Hype and “Arab Spring” The on-going phase of sociopolitical transformation, ostensibly in the name of democracy, cannot be described even as a partial success in the few Arab...
Boeing Opens New Parts Processing Center at Portland Site
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Aug , 2012
Boeing celebrated the opening of its new parts processing center and building expansion in Gresham, Ore., a suburb of Portland. Employing about 1,800 people, Boeing Portland is an ISO...
Lockheed Martin to authorize Canada’s Cascade Aerospace as a C-130 heavy...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Aug , 2012
Lockheed Martin announced that at the 50th anniversary Abbotsford International Air Show that Cascade Aerospace will be authorized as a C-130 Heavy Maintenance Center (HMC) – only the second...
The Winnable War!
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol. 23.4 Oct-Dec 2008 | Date: 11 Aug , 2012
The British nearly gave up war in Afghanistan recently and instead wanted dialogue with Al-Qaeda. Washington termed it defeatist and subsequently London rescinded the suggestion. The stalemate in...
Navy’s online Financial Management System to be launched by the Defence...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Aug , 2012
The Defence Minister Mr AK Antony will, tomorrow, dedicate the Indian Navy’s Financial Information System (FIS) to the nation in a ceremony at New Delhi. The Indian Navy,in a first amongst all...