IDR Updates
End game in Afghanistan
By: Pinaki Bhattacharya | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 11 Nov , 2011
Then Associated Press (AP) published a story on 29 August 2010 about how Afghan government officials outed the secret about U.S. talks with the Taliban, which had reached a fairly substantive...
Special Powers for Armed Forces : We need clarity, not emotions
By: Lt Gen Vijay Oberoi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Nov , 2011
The Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958, better known as AFSPA, has been brought out of wraps at various opportune times – opportune for those who have either something to gain, i.e. the...
The snows of hope
By: Lt Gen Kamal Davar (Retd) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Nov , 2011
Notwithstanding the separatists and their masters, Pakistan’s infamous Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) engineered grenade blasts in the last month, come the next few weeks, the beautiful...
Pratt & Whitney successful Sea Trials for F-35 Program
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Nov , 2011
Sea trials have concluded for the F-35B Lightning II’s Short Takeoff and Vertical Landing (STOVL) aircraft. Flying under the power of Pratt & Whitney’s F135 propulsion system, two STOVL variants...
IAF’s Exercise Mahagujraj to be conducted from 20 Nov to 13 Dec 2011
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Nov , 2011
An Indian Air Force exercise in South Western Air Command (SWAC) named Exercise MahaGujRaj-2011 is planned to be conducted in its area of responsibility (AOR) from 20 Nov to 13 Dec 11. The...
Nexter Systems-Renault Trucks Defense cooperation
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Nov , 2011
Nexter Systems and Renault Trucks Defense have signed a cooperation agreement to offer a unique solution to fulfil the request for proposal for the VBMR programme. The VBMR programme is intended...
Three cheers for AFSPA
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Nov , 2011
By no stretch of imagination, Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah can be considered a competent administrator. His record in office has been pathetic, to say the least. Yet, he does...
Protecting Public Sector Shipyards
By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman | Issue: Vol. 26.3 July - Sept 2011 | Date: 07 Nov , 2011
India wants to develop its warship building capacity at an exponential rate. It is well nigh impossible for DPSU shipyards to meet the complete requirement of the Navy and the Coast Guard in the...
‘Is war around the corner?’
By: Vice Admiral Arun Kumar Singh | Issue: Vol 24.4 Oct-Dec 2009 | Date: 04 Nov , 2011
A few month’s back, Bharat Verma, Editor of the Indian Defence Review, in an article, had predicted that China may attack India by 2012. Frankly, at that time, I did not agree with this...
KMW gets the order for logistic support to the Brazilian Army
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Nov , 2011
Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW), Europe’s market leader for armoured wheeled and tracked vehicles, and the Brazilian Army signed a comprehensive Industrial Logistic Support (ILS) contract. For a...
Armed Forces to leverage latest defence technologies
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Nov , 2011
The Defence Minister Shri AK Antony has called upon the Armed Forces to forge strong partnerships with the industry and the academia to secure the goals of national security. In a message read...
Tibetan unrest spreads
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Nov , 2011
The unrest of Tibetan monks, which has so far led to 10 attempts to commit self-immolation — seven of them successful resulting in deaths — in Western Sichuan, is now showing signs of spreading...
Convergence of Terror
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Nov , 2011
The insurgencies that impacted the Indian landscape till early this decade were generally in isolation. Though, they, like all insurgencies had external links, but the internal linkages between...
Cobham Partners with Carson Helicopter to Retrofit Sikorsky Aircraft with...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Nov , 2011
Cobham and Carson Helicopters have announced a partnership to provide an advanced suite of avionics for Sikorsky S-61, S-76, and UH-60 derivative helicopter retrofits. The Integrated Systems...
The Jihadi War – II
By: Col Harjeet Singh | Issue: Vol 23.2 Apr-Jul 2008 | Date: 01 Nov , 2011
Operation Enduring Freedom Operation Enduring Freedom is the official name used by the US government for its military response to the 11 September 2001 attacks on the country. Holding the...
Big scope for India-Italy Defence Industry Cooperation: Pallam Raju
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Nov , 2011
The Minister of State for Defence Dr. MM Pallam Raju has said that there is tremendous potential for defence cooperation with Italy. Addressing a roundtable on ‘Indo-Italian Defence...
The Jihadi War – I
By: Col Harjeet Singh | Issue: Vol 23.2 Apr-Jul 2008 | Date: 31 Oct , 2011
The lack of success in operation enduring Freedom in Afghanistan results from the US-led coalition’s failure to develop and implement, jointly, a coherent strategy for its conduct that...
Withdrawing AFSPA – A welcome move?
By: Lt Gen Harwant Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Oct , 2011
Omar Abdullah’s decision to withdraw AFSPA from some parts of J&K should be taken as a welcome move. However it would have been far better for him to have first discussed this issue, within...
DCNS and Thales have overcome a new hurdle for the automatic deck-landing of...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Oct , 2011
DCNS and Thales today announced the launch of a supplementary phase for the Technology Demonstration of a system for automatic landing and deck-landing of UAVs (D2AD), which has just been...
The Final Frontier
By: Gp Capt AS Bahal | Issue: Vol 20.4 Oct-Dec 2005 | Date: 27 Oct , 2011
“Space is the final frontier that India must conquest, if it has to rightfully emerge as a leading economic and military powerhouse.” The chinese were the first to develop a rocket in...