IDR Updates
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Time New Delhi calls Islamabad’s Bluff!
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Jun , 2012
Pakistan once again managed to befool New Delhi and the Indian media through its diversionary tactics. They cleverly diverted the attention from the unfolding big Abu Jindal story, where...
China’s Ambitions for Space Exploration
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol. 27.2 Apr-Jun 2012 | Date: 28 Jun , 2012
China has announced an ambitious five-year plan to explore outer space. The plan includes Beijing’s previously-stated goals of putting a man on the moon and building a space station. In a...
Our real adversary is China not the US!
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Jun , 2012
US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s visit to India on June 5-6 and the third round of the India-US Strategic dialogue at Washington on June 13 have provoked much commentary on the direction of...
Myanmar: Rush is Ok, But not Gold Rush
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Jun , 2012
The elected MsP belonging to Aung San SuuKyi’s NationaL League for Democracy (NLD) took their seats as newly elected members of the lower House of the Myanmar Parliament when its session began...
Abu Jundal: New Delhi must change as Islamabad will never!
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Jun , 2012
Prima facie it appears that Abu Jundal and Abu Hamza are assumed names of an Indian citizen, Syed Zabuddin Ansari. Lashkar-e-Toiba normally provides such assumed identities to its operators. The...
Apache Block III Attack Helicopters Interoperable With Drones
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol. 27.2 Apr-Jun 2012 | Date: 25 Jun , 2012
The US Army’s latest Apache attack helicopter version, the AH-64D Longbow Block III, will include at least 25 technology upgrades including interoperability with Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS),...
India’s Future Main Battle Tank
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Vol. 27.2 Apr-Jun 2012 | Date: 25 Jun , 2012
As the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) begins designing the Future Main Battle Tank (FMBT), the army is sending out mixed messages on the vital question of how big and heavy...
China Is Worried about the U.S. Return to Asia
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Jun , 2012
On June 29, 2012, China Review News published an article titled “China Also Needs to ‘Re-Balance’ with the United States.” The author of the article concedes that China is worried about...
CII welcomes down selection of Indian private industry in the First ever...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Jun , 2012
Confederation of Indian Industry welcomes the landmark announcement of Ministry of Defence of down selecting two Indian Development Agencies (DA) for design and development phase for Tactical...
The Political Dimensions of Sino-India Relations
By: PM Heblikar | Issue: Vol. 27.2 Apr-Jun 2012 | Date: 21 Jun , 2012
Today, there is a pronounced asymmetry between India and China. This is visible in terms of international influence that China wields owing to its strategic stature that flows from its economic...