IDR Updates
KMW buys UK bridge-making company
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 May , 2012
Krauss-Maffei Wegmann GmbH & Co. KG has taken over the UK company WFEL Ltd. based in Stockport, Cheshire. WFEL is regarded as the world-market leader for mobile bridging systems in both military...
Pak bigger terrorist threat than Iran
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 May , 2012
India-US relations have neither burgeoned as much as the enthusiasts may have wanted nor withered as much as the skeptics may have anticipated. The relationship is neither in an impasse nor is it...
New DCNS carrier deck coating process validated
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 May , 2012
Recent tests have demonstrated the effectiveness of new coatings applied to the flight deck of CVN Charles de Gaulle using a process tailored by DCNS. Phase I of this programme involved the...
INS VIRAAT: 25 Years of Glorious Service
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 May , 2012
On 12 May 1987 HMS Hermes became INS Viraat under the command of Capt (later Vice Admiral) Vinod Pasricha. Born in Nov 1959 as HMS Hermes, INS Viraat took avatar after completing 28 years under...
DuPont opens Ballistics Facility at DuPont Knowledge Center in India
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 May , 2012
DuPont announced the opening of its world-class integrated ballistics facility in India, the first such DuPont facility in the Asia Pacific region. The DuPont Ballistics facility is located at the...
Pakistan-US relations in a trough, but only for now
By: Vikram Sood | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 May , 2012
Towards the end of his last State of the Union address on January 24 President Obama said "One of my proudest possessions is the flag that the Seal Team took with them on the mission to get Bin...
Elbit Systems Receives US Army’s 2012 Weapon Systems Award
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 May , 2012
Elbit Systems of America and its subsidiaries (wholly owned by Elbit Systems Ltd.) have long been known for superior service and solutions. This month, at the Joseph P. Cribbins Aviation Product...
DCNS to showcase wide range expertise at Defexpo India 2012
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 May , 2012
Highlights include the Indian Navy’s Scorpene submarine, the Mistral-Class LHD, the Gowind OPV L’Adroit together with the Barracuda SSN and a future Aircraft Carrier design. DCNS, the defence...
Rheinmetall: Ready to team with India
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 May , 2012
Without a doubt, India is the regional superpower of South Asia. Its armed forces form a mainstay of Indian security policy, and are now undergoing further modernization. Facing up to the...
Air Marshal Rajinder Singh takes over the Command of Training Command
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 May , 2012
Air Marshal Rajinder Singh AVSM VM took over as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Training Command, Bangalore today, on 1st March 2012. He was commissioned in the Indian Air Force in December 1974...
Air Marshal Punches Out of Doomed Mirage
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 May , 2012
He's the senior most Indian Air Force officer ever to eject. Air Marshal Anil Chopra, currently Air Officer in charge of Personnel (AOP) at IAF HQ punched out of a Dassault Mirage 2000TH...
Why countries go for ballistic missiles?
By: Upendra Chaudhary | Issue: Vol. 13.2 April-June 1998 | Date: 14 May , 2012
The nuclear tests by India and Pakistan have not only made these countries full-fledged nuclear weapon states but also increased the importance of their ballistic missiles which are capable of...
China’s Palace in the Skies
By: Air Commodore KB Menon | Issue: Vol. 27.1 -Mar 2012 | Date: 14 May , 2012
On September 29, 2011, China launched the Tiangong-1 unmanned module from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in North-West China. The unmanned module was launched by a Long March 2FT1 carrier...
Nuclear India: Why the Tests Now?
By: K Subrahmanyam | Issue: Vol. 13.2 April-June 1998 | Date: 11 May , 2012
No other country in the world debated going nuclear for a longer period than India and yet when the country finally took the plunge it produced more divisiveness than in any other seven declared...
PLA Daily: Never Expect to Take Away Half an Inch of China’s Territory
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 May , 2012
On May 10, 2012, amid the heightened tensions between China and the Philippines over what is known as the Scarborough Shoal in English and Huangyan island in Chinese in the southeastern region of...
MBDA Exocet MM40 successfully test fired
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 May , 2012
The first such project carried out by Brazil, involving an investment of 75 million Reals, giving the country autonomy in the development of anti-ship missile motors. The Brazilian Navy has...
No Ground to Vacate Siachen
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 May , 2012
Peace with Pakistan is a desirable goal, but peace should be equally desired by both sides and both should contribute to it in equal measure. The burden of making peace should not fall on India...
Boeing Completes Full Landing Test of Crew Space Transportation Spacecraft
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 May , 2012
2nd CST-100 drop test demonstrates parachute and air bag system performance Boeing successfully completed the second parachute drop test of the company's Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100...
Silent Invasion
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 May , 2012
In its latest “Annual Report”, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has admitted that checking illegal migration from Bangladesh is a major challenge “considering the porous nature of the...
Maoists’ Final Assault on Democracy
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 May , 2012
An analysis of recent events related to Maoist terrorism shows that the four-decades-old phenomenon has entered its most dangerous phase. The abduction of two Italian nationals, Paolo Bosusco and...