IDR Updates
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...
Israeli Carrier Israir receives its first ATR 72-500
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Jul , 2011
The Israeli airline Israir has taken delivery of its first ATR 72-500, of a total order of two. The aircraft, equipped with PW 127M engines, is configured to transport 72 passengers. It will be...
Boeing EA-18G Growlers Complete 1st Combat Deployment
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Jul , 2011
EA-18G Growlers operated by U.S. Navy electronic attack squadron VAQ-132 safely returned to their home base at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, Wash., on July 9, after completing an eight-month...
French Defence Procurement Agency awards Thales contract to equip Mirage...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Jul , 2011
Thales has been awarded a contract to supply more than 100 of its GNSS 1000-S GPS receivers to upgrade France’s fleet of Mirage 2000D aircraft within the framework of the French Army’s Global...
Evolution of Militancy in Indian Muslim Community
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Jul , 2011
The following three events have contributed to the growth of militancy, often amounting to terrorism, in the Indian Muslim community, particularly among its young members: The demolition of...
EADS broadens its technology licensing reach with new European, Indian...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Jul , 2011
Five agreements signed by EADS have extended the scope of the company’s technology licensing outreach with new industrial partners in India and Europe. These accords were inked during last...
China’s Strategic Eggs in South Asia
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Jul , 2011
China is not a South Asian power, but it has been seeking to build up for itself a strong South Asian presence which could cater to its strategic needs in the long term. It has made inroads in...
Karachi, Beirut of South Asia
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Jul , 2011
Karachi stands in danger of turning into another Beirut of the 1970s and 1980s if the Government of Pakistan does not wake up in time to the implications of the unending clashes between the...
Thales completes coastal surveillance radar demonstration for NAVAIR
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Jul , 2011
Thales’s naval business completed the testing and demonstration of its Coastwatcher 10 radar recently at the U.S. Naval Air Station (NAS) in Patuxent River, Maryland. NAS Patuxent River is home...