IDR Updates
The Chinese Way
By: Prof. Priyadarshi Mukherji | Issue: Vol 20.4 Oct-Dec 2005 | Date: 09 Aug , 2012
Just ten days before the founding of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), on 21 September 1949, in his opening address at the First Plenary Session of the Chinese People’s Political...
Boeing Demonstrates Autonomous Ship-based Capability of Unmanned Little Bird...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Aug , 2012
The Boeing Unmanned Little Bird H-6U successfully performed 14 autonomous takeoffs and landings from a ship during flight tests in July, a significant milestone for a medium-size...
Afghanistan: Clash of the titans
By: Vikram Sood | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Aug , 2012
The US-led war against Iraq in 2003 was never really about Saddam Hussein's nuclear weapons programme or the presence of al-Qaeda in that country. It was about gaining control over Iraq's oil....
Pakistan’s offensive against the Taliban
By: Lt Gen Vijay Oberoi | Issue: Vol 24.3 Jul-Sep 2009 | Date: 03 Aug , 2012
The Pakistan Army itself hardly fights. Instead, it directs others to do its bidding! The Pakistani generals consider the Taliban and other terrorist groups as the vanguard of the nation’s...
Elbit Systems of America showcases the Skylark
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Aug , 2012
Elbit Systems of America, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Elbit Systems Ltd., will showcase the Skylark® I-LE Block II’s capabilities at the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems...
Boeing Completes Major Join of India’s 1st C-17 Airlifter
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Aug , 2012
Program on schedule to deliver strategic and humanitarian capabilities Boeing in Long Beach integrated the forward, center and aft fuselages and the wing assembly of India’s first C-17...
INS Baaz commissioned as first Naval Air Station in Nicobar Islands
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Aug , 2012
The Naval Air Station at Campbell Bay on Great Nicobar Island, was today commissioned as Indian Naval Ship ‘Baaz’ by Admiral Nirmal Verma, Chairman Chiefs of Staff Committee and the Chief of...
Power and Proficiency: Future Military Engines
By: Gp Capt Joseph Noronha | Issue: Vol. 27.2 Apr-Jun 2012 | Date: 30 Jul , 2012
Very few companies in the world can claim to have mastered the art of producing high-performance military engines and most of them are in the United States and Europe. Russia and Europe lag...
How does China eye India’s aircraft carrier Vikramaditya
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Jul , 2012
Posted July 26, 2012 by admin in China Military News. The INS Vikramaditya aircraft carrier (former Admiral Gorshkov), which Russia refurbished for India, left its berth at the Sevmash shipyard...
Turmoil in Bodoland
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Jul , 2012
Assam is burning as I write this. Ethnic clashes between the Bodo tribes (Hindus) and “Bengali Muslims” (most of them being immigrants) have already consumed 40 lives and resulted in...
Boeing F-15E Radar Modernization Program
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Jul , 2012
Boeing said the U.S. Air Force has granted the F-15E Radar Modernization Program (RMP) approval to begin Low Rate Initial Production 2 (LRIP 2) of 10 APG-82(V)1 Active Electronically Scanned Array...
Sagem and Thales create optronics joint venture, OPTROLEAD
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Jul , 2012
Sagem (Safran group) and Thales have announced the creation of OPTROLEAD, an equally-owned joint venture for optronics. The official signature creating the new company follows the original...
Boeing Delivers 2nd Production P-8A Poseidon Aircraft to US Navy
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Jul , 2012
Boeing delivered the second production P-8A Poseidon aircraft to the U.S. Navy. The P-8A is one of 13 low rate initial production (LRIP) maritime patrol aircraft that Boeing is building for the...
United Kingdom accepts first international Lockheed Martin F-35
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Jul , 2012
The United Kingdom accepted the first international Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II aircraft in a ceremony today with senior representatives of the U.K. Ministry of Defence and the U.S....
China’s growing assertiveness and shaping the Indian response
By: Lt Gen Kamal Davar (Retd) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Jul , 2012
“Indian elites show little evidence of having thought coherently and systematically about strategy.” - George Tanham Nearly 200 years back, Napoleon had prophetically stated that “ let...
DCNS and Pipavav team up to address India’s naval needs
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Jul , 2012
DCNS and Pipavav have decided to establish a strategic partnership for bringing DCNS technologies, methods and skills into Pipavav, India’s first and largest integrated defence company. The...
Is Colonel Purohit guilty?
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Vol. 23.4 Oct-Dec 2008 | Date: 18 Jul , 2012
The article was written one month prior to 26/11 and was published in Indian Defence Review issue No. 23.4 (Oct-Dec 2008) under the the title "Spare the Army". Going by the selective and...
Evolution of the Air-To-Air Missiles: Options for the IAF
By: Air Commodore KB Menon | Issue: Vol. 27.2 Apr-Jun 2012 | Date: 18 Jul , 2012
Cannons once again found their way into the design of fighter planes. The problem with cannons is that they had to be fired at aerial targets from the astern quarters and any manoeuvring by the...
Red Dragon in India’s North West
By: Lt Gen Kamal Davar (Retd) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Jul , 2012
Defence Secretary level talks between India and Pakistan held on 11-12 June 2012 at Islamabad for resolving the Siachen issue ended on expected lines with both nations sticking to their often...
2nd Boeing P-8I Aircraft for India Completes 1st Flight
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Jul , 2012
The second Boeing P-8I aircraft for the Indian Navy completed its initial flight on July 12, taking off from Renton Field at 3:29 p.m. and landing two hours and 14 minutes later at Boeing Field...