IDR Updates
IAF Chief Leads Delegation to Singapore
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Feb , 2012
Air Chief Marshal NAK Browne, Chief of the Air Staff, is on a, four day Defence Cooperation visit to Singapore from 13 Feb 2012. Leading a Composite Defence Delegation to Singapore, the Air...
UN Peacekeeping: Thinking ‘out of the box’
By: Ali Ahmed | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Feb , 2012
The story of India’s peacekeeping engagement is too well known to recount. However, less known is the fact that India numbers among the five top UN troop contributing countries. In effect,...
Future of Aerospace Power
By: Admiral Arun Prakash (Retd.) | Issue: Vol 22.2 Apr-Jun 2007 | Date: 13 Feb , 2012
Let me start by being the devil’s advocate and making two points to this audience. One: that this seminar is about “Aerospace Power” and not “Air Force Power”. The army and the navy,...
Fears of Pakistanisation of Maldives
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Feb , 2012
There has been disquiet among the large number of supporters of former Maldivian President Mohammed Nasheed over indications that appeared on February 11, 2012, that India, the US and the...
Steering India’s Military Capabilities
By: Lt Gen Vinay Shankar | Issue: Vol 23.3 Jul-Sep 2008 | Date: 12 Feb , 2012
If we were to comment on the attitude of our leadership to our country’s defence preparedness the conclusion would be of unwitting indifference. There is no other plausible explanation to the...
Washington’s Views of Sino-Pakistan Relations – II
By: Ramtanu Maitra | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 11 Feb , 2012
Chinese Arming of Pakistan The first area of concern is Beijing’s help in arming Pakistan. According “China-Pakistan Relations,” a July 2010 article by Jamal Afridi and Jayshree Bajoria in...
Tibet: The International Betrayal
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Book Excerpt: Tibet - The Lost Frontier | Date: 11 Feb , 2012
“In former times Tibetans were a war-like nation whose influence spread far and wide. With the advent of Budhisim our military prowess declined…” Dalai Lama 23 October 1950: A Telegram...
Washington’s Views of Sino-Pakistan Relations – I
By: Ramtanu Maitra | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 10 Feb , 2012
In the recent period, relations between Washington and Islamabad have developed into a full-blown crisis. According to some analysts, the trust gap between these erstwhile allies has put a...
China preaches non-violence …to others
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Feb , 2012
The Chinese are apparently unhappy with the selection of the multipurpose combat plane Rafalefor the Indian Air Force. It is what appears from an article in the People’s Daily (French...
Howe and Howe Technologies: Pushing the limits of extreme vehicle design...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Feb , 2012
Twin brothers Geoff and Mike Howe were already working as engineers before they knew what engineering was. At age six, they took a toaster apart to figure out how it worked. At eight, they built...
Indian Navy: challenges beyond the horizon
By: Vice Adm RN Ganesh | Issue: Vol 23.1 Jan-Mar 2008 | Date: 06 Feb , 2012
The Currency of Power: In the mid-1980s many commentators predicted the end of the role of military force as the “currency of power”. Subsequent decades were however marked by global changes...
Russian-Chinese nervousness influences their vote on Syria
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Feb , 2012
The veto by Russia and China on February 4,2012, of a resolution in the UN Security Council that called upon Syrian President Bashar Assad to step down in the face of the persisting movement...
Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force Orders Northrop Grumman’s ALMDS
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Feb , 2012
The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force has purchased four helicopter-mountable, laser mine detection systems to help protect its coastline and the daily maritime traffic coming in and out of the...
Pakistan at War with Itself
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol. 27.1 -Mar 2012 | Date: 02 Feb , 2012
In the coming years, Islamabad will remain pre-occupied with internal strife without respite due to multiple contradictions arising out of the use of terrorism primarily against New Delhi as a...
Design Considerations for Indigenous Aircraft Carrier-2
By: Vice Adm BS Randhawa | Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 30 Jan , 2012
The keel of India’s first Indigenous Aircraft Carrier (IAC) was laid by the Raksha Mantri at Cochin Shipyard on the 28th of February 2009. This major milestone of the IAC project underlined...
1st Inshore Patrol Vessel Commissioned into Coast Guard
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Jan , 2012
The Indian Coast Guard Ship Rani Abbakka, the 1st of a series of five Inshore Patrol Vessel (IPV) built at M/s HSL, was commissioned at Visakhapatnam byMinister of State for Defence Dr. MM...
L’Affaire Salman Rushdie
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Jan , 2012
The situation became sensitive and complex. One would have expected the Government of India to stop this intimidatory campaign initiated by the Deobandis in the bud and make it clear to them...
Lockheed Martin F-35A Performs First Night Flight
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Jan , 2012
The first night flight in the history of the Lockheed Martin F-35 Program was completed Wednesday at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. Piloted by Lockheed Martin Test Pilot Mark Ward, AF-6, an...
Future of Kashmiri Pandits?
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Jan , 2012
It is 23 years today since Jammu & Kashmir saw the beginning of the ethnic-cleansing of the Kashmiri Pandits, the original inhabitants of Jammu & Kashmir (J&K), from their homeland at the...
Sagem to modernize M270 Multiple Launch Rocket Systems
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Jan , 2012
Sagem (Safran group) has won a contract from Cassidian (an EADS company) to supply Sigma 30 navigation and pointing systems to modernize the self-propelled M270 Mars MLRS (Multiple Launch Rocket...