IDR Updates
Internal Security: Centre Playing Politics?
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Apr , 2012
Individual States can control regional terrorism or insurgency with a limited spread. We have had success stories as in the case of Al Ummah in Tamil Nadu. But terrorism or insurgency of a...
India’s new stealth frigate INS Teg
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Apr , 2012
INS Teg, is a modern and contemporary Warship with advanced technologies incorporated in every facet of design to make her stable, stealthy, fast and formidable. A versatile and capable vessel,...
Can China afford a war?
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 27 Apr , 2012
James Clapper, the Director of the US National Intelligence recently told a Senate Committee on intelligence that the Indian Army was strengthening itself for a “˜limited conflict with...
How Bofors Affairs Transformed India
By: Lt Gen M Mayadas | Issue: Book Excerpt: How Bofors Affairs Transformed India | Date: 26 Apr , 2012
Important factors considered by the TEC while comparing the characteristics of the four gun systems. Range. During the 1981 trials in India, the Bofors achieved a range of 15 kms, during which,...
India’s Spy Satellite RISAT-1
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Apr , 2012
Radar Imaging Satellite-1 (RISAT-1) is a state of the art Microwave Remote Sensing Satellite carrying a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) payload operating in C-band (5.35 GHz), which enables imaging...
F-35A completes first In-Flight Refueling mission with external weapons
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Apr , 2012
Lockheed Martin’s F-35A Lightning II conventional takeoff and landing aircraft completed the program’s first in-flight refueling mission while configured with external weapons at Edwards Air...
The Match with Pakistan
By: Lt Gen Vinay Shankar | Issue: Vol 20.2 Apr-Jun 2005 | Date: 24 Apr , 2012
We should not blame our cricketers or our hockey players for our dismal record against Pakistan. It is something to do with our national psyche. This hypothesis is validated if we look at the...
China’s surprise Military Strike Capability
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Apr , 2012
We don’t need Agni-V, the intermediate range ballistic missile that we successfully tested on April 19, 2012, to give ourselves a deterrent capability against Pakistan. We need it only for a...
India’s Tibet?
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Apr , 2012
The act of self-immolation by the Tibetan protestor Jamphel Yeshi on March 26 in New Delhi against the visit of the Chinese President Hu Jintao has hit the international headlines. In contrast,...
Is General Kayani’s smile genuine?
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Apr , 2012
During a visit to the site of the devastating avalanche near Skardu in Pakistan-Occupied Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) on April 18, 2012, which killed about 125 military personnel and 15 civilians, Gen...
MBDA’s Viper Strike Scores Multiple Direct Hits from KC-130J Harvest HAWK
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Apr , 2012
MBDA Incorporated’s GBU-44/E Viper Strike munition scored multiple direct hits from a U.S. Marine Corps KC-130J Harvest HAWK aircraft during developmental testing at Naval Air Warfare...
A patriotic act!
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Apr , 2012
Airline Lunches I put my carry-on in the luggage compartment and sat down in my assigned seat. It was going to be a long flight from Gatwick. 'I'm glad I have a good book to read Perhaps I will...
Uncertain months ahead for Chinese Leadership
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Apr , 2012
Wang Lijun was the Deputy Director of the Public Security Bureau in Tiefa in the Liaoning province from 1992 to 1995. From 1995 to 2000, he held the same position in Tieling city, also inthe...
Pallam Raju Inaugurates BRO’s longest bridge in Arunachal
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Apr , 2012
The Border Roads Organisation (BRO) has built a 720-meters-long bridge in Arunachal Pradesh. The Digaru bridge, linking Lohit and Dibang valley, was inaugurated by Minister of State for Defence...
Nuke attack submarine Chakra inducted
By: IDR News Network | Date: 11 Apr , 2012
INS Chakra, a nuclear powered attack submarine of the Akula class was formally inducted into the Indian Navy by Defence Minister AK Antony on 4 Apr 12, at Visakhapatnam, in the presence of MoS MM...
Design and Construction of Warships
By: Cmde KN Vaidyanathan | Issue: Vol 22.1 Jan - Mar 2007 | Date: 11 Apr , 2012
The issues discussed in this article are globally relevant: they are more specific to the Indian Navy and warship design and building in India. The tides of change that are sweeping India and the...
Wanted Dead or Alive – Well, Not Quite
By: Vikram Sood | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Apr , 2012
Once again, Pakistan's most treasured jehadi jewel, Hafiz Saeed the leader of the Jamat ut Dawa, listed by the US as a Foreign Terrorist Organisation, and the ideological patron of the rabidly...
Preserving the Military Institution
By: Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee | Issue: Vol. 27.1 -Mar 2012 | Date: 06 Apr , 2012
Military leaders at all levels have to girdle up to protect the exclusivity of the military establishment from attempts of misguided, even if unintentional, dilutions from within the fraternity...
Shia massacre in Gilgit-Baltistan
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Apr , 2012
The phone lines are down and wireless connections are jammed since last three days. It is very difficult to get the right information about how many people have died in recent target killing...
Boeing Successfully Completes Parachute Drop Test of Crew Space...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Apr , 2012
Boeing successfully completed a parachute drop test of the company's Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 spacecraft today at the Delmar Dry Lake Bed near Alamo, Nev. CST-100 is part of the Boeing...