IDR Updates
New Air Chief Marshal NAK Browne shares his vision
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Aug , 2011
Air Chief Marshal NAK Browne, took over as the 23rd Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), from Air Chief Marshal PV Naik, who retires after 42 years of illustrious service, at Air Headquarters, Vayu...
Defence of the Western Border – I
By: Maj Gen Sukhwant Singh | Issue: Book Excerpt: India's War since Independence | Date: 01 Aug , 2011
The Western Command The territorial jurisdiction of Western Military Command embraced the states of Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Haryana, the Union territories of Chandigarh...
Thales and Dassault to upgrade IAF Mirage 2000 fleet
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Jul , 2011
Thales and Dassault Aviation signed a contract for the upgrade of the Indian Air Force’s Mirage 2000 fleet. Based on the integration of latest generation equipment and systems, the upgrade will...
The Subverted Indo-Bangladesh Border : III
By: VK Shashikumar | Issue: Vol 24.2 Apr-Jun 2009 | Date: 28 Jul , 2011
Cattle Smuggling and Terrorism: Let’s come straight to the point. The cattle-smugglers of West Bengal, their knowledge of the border areas, the gaps and the vulnerable areas through which...
The Hina factor
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Jul , 2011
External Affairs Minister S M Krishna says that he is “satisfied” at the progress achieved during the India-Pakistan dialogue on July 27 at New Delhi. According to him, his talks with the...
Fresh Violence in Xinjiang as Expo Draws Near
By: B Raman | Date: 26 Jul , 2011
The Chinese Government is organising what has been called the 1st China-Eurasia Expo in Urumqi, the capital of the Chinese-Controlled Xinjiang province, from September 1 to 5, 2011.The...
Boeing Vice President Dennis Swanson to Grow Defense Business in India
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Jul , 2011
Dennis Swanson to enhance customer focus and industry relationships, pursue new sales opportunities The Boeing Company announced that Dennis D. Swanson has been named International Business...
Suicide & Suicidal Terrorism
By: B Raman | Issue: Book Excerpt: TERRORISM-Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow | Date: 25 Jul , 2011
Suicide protests are not unknown in history. As recent examples, one could cite the self-immolation of many Tamils in Tamil Nadu in the 1960s to express their opposition to the introduction...
Investigate the Indian Angle in Kashmir American Council
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Jul , 2011
There are two aspects to L’Affaire Fai, the case relating to the arrest earlier this week and the proposed prosecution of Ghulam Nabi Fai, the head of the Washington DC based Kashmiri American...
Sikorsky Delivers 300th UH-60M BLACK HAWK Helicopter to U.S. Army
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Jul , 2011
Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. today announced the delivery of the 300th UH-60M BLACK HAWK helicopter to the U.S. Army. Sikorsky is a United Technologies Corp. (NYSE:UTX) company. “The war-fighter has...
Boeing P-8A Poseidon Production Aircraft Completes 1st Flight
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Jul , 2011
The first Boeing P-8A Poseidon production aircraft completed its first flight on July 7, taking off from Renton Field and landing three hours later at Boeing Field in Seattle. The P-8A is the...
Maoists: Should India allow a PoK within the country?
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Jul , 2011
The cynics and vested interests have been portraying Chhattisgarh as a remote, underdeveloped, violence ridden region, where tribal are exploited and live like primitive humans in sub-human...
Forebodings in J&K over spring
By: Anand K Verma | Issue: Vol 26.2 Apr-Jun 2011 | Date: 18 Jul , 2011
The advent of spring in Kashmir is creating apprehensions in some quarters in the State. Will there be a repeat of turmoil and tension, which marked the post spring period from 2008 to 2010? In...
2nd Boeing GPS IIF Satellite Sends 1st Signals from Space
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Jul , 2011
Navigation satellite begins post-launch operational tests Boeing has received the first on-orbit signals from the second of 12 Global Positioning System (GPS) IIF satellites it is building for...
Harvest of Hate
By: Wilson John | Issue: Vol 21.4 Oct-Dec 2006 | Date: 17 Jul , 2011
It is important to understand that of the multiple objectives a terrorist attack has, the least articulated and understood is the cycle of terror and hate. When groups like LeT carry out...
Xinjiang, Tibet Continue to Haunt CPC/PLA Leadership
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Jul , 2011
The situation in the Chinese-controlled Xinjiang region of China and in the so-called Tibet Autonomous Region continues to haunt the leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC), which has...
BPC Dixmude in Toulon for combat system integration and testing
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Jul , 2011
BPC Dixmude – the third Mistral/BPC-type force projection & command vessel for the French Navy – arrived in Toulon after sailing from Saint-Nazaire on 6 July. Over the coming six months, DCNS...
Refurbished Boeing 737 Paint Hangar Opens to Meet Rate Increase
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Jul , 2011
Boeing has opened a new paint hangar near its Renton, Wash., facility that will help increase its Next-Generation 737 production capacity. The 737 program currently produces 31.5 airplanes per...
DCNS delivers MU90 torpedo simulator to German Navy
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Jul , 2011
DCNS has successfully delivered the SIMOPE (SIMulateur OPErationnel) MU90 torpedo simulator to the German Navy. SIMOPE is designed to prepare and simulate operational launch scenarios with the...
Pakistan’s Confessions: Shouldn’t go slow on defence modernisation
By: Lt Gen Harwant Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Jul , 2011
Pakistan Defence Minister in a recent statement has acknowledged that his country just cannot match India in defence capabilities. This, it is argued, is due to the vast difference in the GDP...