IDR Updates
A sharper focus: Rheinmetall Electro-Optics premieres at DSEi 2011
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Sep , 2011
Rheinmetall Defence has welded its electro-optical activities into a new division. Known as Rheinmetall Electro-Optics, the division has now made its international debut at this year’s DSEi fair...
US-Pakistan Tensions: China’s Cautious Stance
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Sep , 2011
The Chinese media have started informing the Chinese people of the tensions in Pakistan’s ties with the US without any editorial comment so far.There have been no comments from the spokesperson...
Beijing Irked by Myanmar Decision to Suspend Dam Construction in Kachin State
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Sep , 2011
The Government of Myanmar announced on September 30,2011, the suspension of its plans to build, with Chinese assistance, a massive dam on the Irrawaddy River in the Northern Kachin State. The...
Boeing CHAMP Missile Completes 1st Flight Test
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Sep , 2011
Boeing, Air Force Research Laboratory team on nonlethal microwave weapon The Boeing Company and the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory Counter-electronics High-powered Microwave Advanced...
Boeing, US Army Celebrate $130 Million Investment in CH-47 Chinook...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Sep , 2011
The Boeing Company and the U.S. Army celebrated the opening of the newly renovated H-47 Chinook manufacturing facility today. The event coincided with the 50th anniversary of the H-47 Chinook’s...
Sagem to modernize navigation system on South Korea’s KSS-1 submarines
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Sep , 2011
After a hard-fought international competition, Sagem (Safran group) was chosen by the South Korean Defense Ministry’s Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) to modernize the...
DCNS conducts further sea trials with BPC Dixmude
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Sep , 2011
DCNS began new sea trials on 19 September with BPC Dixmude, the French Navy’s third Mistral-class force projection and command vessel, which was ordered by the French defence procurement agency...
IAF flying into the Future
By: Air Commodore Jasjit Singh | Issue: Vol 22.4 Oct-Dec 2007 | Date: 21 Sep , 2011
As one of the less than half a dozen air forces of the world which have remained independent from the very birth, the Indian Air Force has rendered a yeoman service in the defence of the country...
German Army orders KMW’s 31 MUNGO 2 Multi-purpose vehicles
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Sep , 2011
Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW), Europe´s market leader for highly protected wheeled and tracked vehicles, has received an order from the German Army for the assembly and delivery of 31 further...
F-35 Program Completes Static Structural Testing
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Sep , 2011
Lockheed Martin’s F-35 program has successfully completed static structural testing, achieving one of five milestones established by the Joint Program Office for 2011. Static structural testing...
Boeing forecasts strong need for Aviation Personnel in Asia Pacific
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Sep , 2011
Boeing forecasts the Asia Pacific region will require hundreds of thousands of new commercial airline pilots and technicians over the next 20 years to support airline fleet modernization and the...
South China Sea: India should avoid rushing in where even US exercises caution
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Sep , 2011
China has reacted — moderately through a spokesperson of its Foreign Office and somewhat virulently through the Party-controlled “Global Times” — to reports that India has been...
Reign of Terror: How safe are we?
By: Col US Rathore | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Sep , 2011
Post-26/11, reacting to the elaborate security arrangements near Hotel Taj, Mumbai someone exclaimed with great flourish, “Why all this? Lightning does not strike at the same place twice.”...
Indian Mujahideen objective, an Islamic Caliphate across South Asia, says USA
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Sep , 2011
The Secretary of State designated the Indian Mujahideen (IM) as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) under Section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act and as a Specially Designated...
MBDA Readies Fire Shadow on back of Programme Successes
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Sep , 2011
The Fire Shadow weapon system has successfully completed a series of demonstration trials and two more successful firings in a ground breaking rapid development programme that was launched in...
Pakistan: A Convoluted Script
By: Wilson John | Issue: Vol 22.4 Oct-Dec 2007 | Date: 14 Sep , 2011
When the time comes for writing an epitaph for Pakistan’s President-General Pervez Musharraf, two critical blunders committed by him in 2007 would be mentioned without fail. First would be the...
Hazaras Massacred in Balochistan by Al Qaeda
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Sep , 2011
Twenty-six Shia pilgrims belonging to the Hazara community were dragged out of a bus in which they were travelling at Mastung in Balochistan on September 20,2011, lined up and shot dead by...
Mumbai 26/11 repeated by Taliban in Kabul
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Sep , 2011
According to an analysis by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), the Afghan Taliban and its affiliates such as the Haqqani network and Gulbuddin Heckmatyar’s Hizbe-Islami (HI) attempted...
Pakistan: Testing of Tactical Nuclear Weapons
By: Cdr Abhijit Singh | Issue: Vol. 26.3 July - Sept 2011 | Date: 12 Sep , 2011
Pakistan’s recent tests of its Tactical Nuclear Missiles suggest a lowering of the threshold for nuclear conflict. More portentous is the underlying assumption of Tactical Nuclear Missiles...
India’s Southern Security
By: Lt Gen SC Sardeshpande | Issue: Vol 22.3 Jul-Sep 2007 | Date: 11 Sep , 2011
A general review of media reportage on India’s southern security, relating to Sri Lanka in recent months reveals following salient aspects:- Sri Lankan Govt’s (SLG) argument of finding...