IDR Updates

“Unwise to lift ban on Pak TV programmes,” says former RAW officer

“Unwise to lift ban on Pak TV programmes,” says former RAW officer

By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Jul , 2012

In 1989, widespread demonstrations, some of them leading to violence, broke out in Jammu & Kashmir against the Government of India. That was the time when East Europe was in turmoil with...

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India’s Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP) prevents procurement

India’s Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP) prevents procurement

By: Lt Gen Vinay Shankar | Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 13 Jul , 2012

  “A comparison with other defense industries would be in order to draw some relevant deductions. Take China, Turkey, South Africa, South Korea, Israel and closer home even Pakistan. We began at...

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Agni-I Ballistic Missile Successfully Launched

Agni-I Ballistic Missile Successfully Launched

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Jul , 2012

India’s 700 km range ballistic missile, ‘AGNI I’ was successfully launched today from the wheeler island off the coast of Odisha. It was a textbook launch meeting all mission objectives and...

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Honeytrap: Media bashing of the Army on false pretext

Honeytrap: Media bashing of the Army on false pretext

By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Jul , 2012

On July 11, 2012 at approximately 6 pm one of the most responsible news channel in India claimed that an officer of Indian Army was caught in a honeytrap in a five-star hotel by the...

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Boeing CH-147F Chinook for Canada successfully completes 1st Flight

Boeing CH-147F Chinook for Canada successfully completes 1st Flight

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Jul , 2012

The new Boeing CH-147F Medium-to-Heavy-Lift Helicopter for Canada is progressing ahead of schedule after making its first flight on June 24. "Boeing and the Canadian Department of National...

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Lockheed Martin extend the Stalker UAS flight time to more than 48 hours

Lockheed Martin extend the Stalker UAS flight time to more than 48 hours

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Jul , 2012

Lockheed Martin and LaserMotive, Inc, demonstrated the capabilities of an innovative laser power system to extend the Stalker Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) flight time to more than 48 hours. This...

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Boeing’s P-8I aircraft for the Indian Navy began its flight test program

Boeing’s P-8I aircraft for the Indian Navy began its flight test program

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Jul , 2012

Boeing's first P-8I aircraft for the Indian Navy began its official flight test program July 7, taking off from Boeing Field in Seattle at 9:15 a.m. and landing three hours and 49 minutes later...

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Lockheed Martin delivers four F-35s to US Air Force and Marine Corps

Lockheed Martin delivers four F-35s to US Air Force and Marine Corps

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Jul , 2012

With the delivery of four Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II aircraft since June 29, an important milestone was achieved as the Department of  Defense now possesses more operational-coded F-35s...

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MBDA Firing Success Confirms Brimstone’s Status as the Anti-FIAC Solution

MBDA Firing Success Confirms Brimstone’s Status as the Anti-FIAC Solution

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Jul , 2012

The first firing of an operational Dual Mode Brimstone missile against a Fast In-Shore Attack Craft (FIAC) proved to be a resounding success and a clear demonstration of the unmatched operational...

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Boeing Offers Medium-sized Maritime Surveillance Aircraft

Boeing Offers Medium-sized Maritime Surveillance Aircraft

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Jul , 2012

Low-risk, cost-effective solution leverages P-8 and AWACS technologies Boeing announced that it is offering a medium-sized Maritime Surveillance Aircraft (MSA) to the global market. MSA builds on...

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Lockheed Martin and Marshall Aerospace sign agreement to increase C-130...

Lockheed Martin and Marshall Aerospace sign agreement to increase C-130...

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Jul , 2012

Lockheed Martin has signed an agreement authorizing Marshall Aerospace to become the world’s first commercial company to install C-130 Center Wing Boxes (CWB). Marshall Aerospace is also the...

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Nervous China may attack India!

Nervous China may attack India!

By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol 24.3 Jul-Sep 2009 | Date: 10 Jul , 2012

  China will launch an attack on India before 2012. There are multiple reasons for a desperate Beijing to teach India the final lesson, thereby ensuring Chinese supremacy in Asia in this century....

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Indo-US Partnership in Defence Industry

Indo-US Partnership in Defence Industry

By: Air Marshal Raghu Rajan | Issue: Vol. 27.2 Apr-Jun 2012 | Date: 09 Jul , 2012

Arms sales and consequently, defence and bilateral relations during the Cold War were hampered by India’s fears about reliability of the US as an arms supplier as also by its sensitivity to the...

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The danger from China

The danger from China

By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol 26.1 Jan-Mar 2011 | Date: 06 Jul , 2012

The multi-dimensional threat between 2011 and 2014 from China is real. Taken aback by screaming headlines in the media that nervous China may attack India in 2012, two former generals who...

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Sagem’s Hammer air-to-ground guided weapon with laser terminal guidance...

Sagem’s Hammer air-to-ground guided weapon with laser terminal guidance...

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Jul , 2012

French defense procurement agency DGA has successfully carried out the first qualification firing test of the laser terminal guidance version of the AASM Hammer modular air-to-ground weapon built...

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A400M MSN6 visiting Farnborough Air Show on static display

A400M MSN6 visiting Farnborough Air Show on static display

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Jul , 2012

Based on the current flight test schedule and planning for the coming days, Airbus Military has decided to bring the first production representative example of the A400M - the MSN6 - to the...

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Eurofighter Typhoon Securing Air Space Over London

Eurofighter Typhoon Securing Air Space Over London

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Jul , 2012

Eurofighter Typhoons of the Royal Air Force (RAF) will be on high alert during the Olympic Games in order to secure the air space over London. Prior to the start of this international event which...

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Mending of US-Pakistan fences and implications for India

Mending of US-Pakistan fences and implications for India

By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Jul , 2012

The three-point face saver announced from Washington DC and Islamabad on July 3, 2012, marks a recognition by the US and Pakistan of the strategic reality that the continuing frictions in the...

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Regional Implications: If and When the US withdraws from Afghanistan

Regional Implications: If and When the US withdraws from Afghanistan

By: Ramtanu Maitra | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 02 Jul , 2012

Much more importantly, however, an answer to the question of what the U.S. endgame in Afghanistan will look like, and when it will happen, appears to have become more elusive than ever as a...

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IAF comes to the rescue of Maldharis stranded in swamps of little Rann of Kutch

IAF comes to the rescue of Maldharis stranded in swamps of little Rann of Kutch

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Jun , 2012

The IAF pressed into service, its Mi-8 and Chetak aircraft promptly in response to a request for casualty evacuation of villagers at Enjar Village. Led by Wing Commander Vikas Bali and co-pilot...

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