IDR Updates
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...
Difa-e-Pakistan: The New Kid on the Block
By: Vikram Sood | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Apr , 2012
They are there on web pages, on FaceBook and Twitter and, using the latest technology, wish to push their society back to the Dark Ages. This is the creed of the newly formed Difa-e-Pakistan...
Suu Kyi: What Next? Co-option or Independence?
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Apr , 2012
Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) has won a landslide victory in bye-elections to the Parliament.It is reported to have won at least 40 of the 45 seats for which the...
Why the Henderson-Brooks report has never been released! – II
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Vol. 27.2 Apr-Jun 2012 | Date: 03 Apr , 2012
The September 08 Incident: The situation was getting hotter by the day. In Beijing, Mao Zedong had begun his comeback to the political stage in Beijing. In the morning of September 08, 1962, the...
Why the Henderson-Brooks report has never been released! – I
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Vol. 27.2 Apr-Jun 2012 | Date: 02 Apr , 2012
Sir Henry McMahon never envisaged that the hurriedly conducted survey and his drawing of a thick red line on a map could trigger a war. The ‘massive attack’ supposedly planned by India cannot...
Thales: First successes with SDR Networking Lab
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Mar , 2012
A first version based on FlexNet-One delivered to an international customer Thales, a key player in software-defined radio (SDR), has announced the first deliveries of its SDR Networking Lab...
Defence Minister inaugurates DefExpo-2012
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Mar , 2012
Defence Minister Shri AK Antony declared open the Defexpo India-2012, the 7th Land, Naval and Internal Security Systems Exhibition, here this morning. Following is the full text of his Inaugural...
EADS receives award for innovative CPRF testing technology
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Mar , 2012
EADS rewarded for laser based composite inspection technology Cost and time savings with ultrasonic technology Paris, March 28 - EADS won the JEC Innovation Award in the aeronautic category,...
From an Islamic Bomb to a Jihadi Bomb
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Mar , 2012
The second Nuclear Security Summit currently being held in Seoul, South Korea, would make a fresh evaluation , inter alia, of the security of nuclear materials in the possession of many countries....
Boeing to Showcase Defense Portfolio for Indian Market at Defexpo
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Mar , 2012
India a significant defense market opportunity for Boeing Company exhibit and events to focus on program execution, local partnerships Boeing will showcase a comprehensive portfolio of products...
Insurgency, Counter-Insurgency and Peace – I
By: Col Anil Athale | Issue: Vol. 27.1 -Mar 2012 | Date: 26 Mar , 2012
Counter-insurgency is a complex phenomenon demanding a complex solution. Any attempt at reductionism can be an invitation to disaster. Although it is very much a form of warfare fitting into the...
Insurgency, Counter-Insurgency and Peace – II
By: Col Anil Athale | Issue: Vol. 27.1 -Mar 2012 | Date: 25 Mar , 2012
Counter-insurgency is a complex phenomenon demanding a complex solution. Any attempt at reductionism can be an invitation to disaster. Although it is very much a form of warfare fitting into the...
Rheinmetall Air Defence rejects allegations
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Mar , 2012
Rheinmetall Air Defence AG of Switzerland (RAD) objects to the decision of the Indian Ministry of Defence announced on 5 March 2012 to exclude it from doing business with India’s Ordnance...
Air Chief to visit Bangladesh
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Mar , 2012
Air Chief Marshal NAK Browne, Chief of the Air Staff, leaves New Delhi on a four day visit to Bangladesh tomorrow. During this defence cooperation visit to reinforce defence ties, the Air Chief...