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Growing Chinese concern over internal turmoil

Growing Chinese concern over internal turmoil

By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Jun , 2011

The authorities of the Chinese Ministry of Public Security, who are responsible for internal intelligence, internal security and law and order, seem to be increasingly concerned over the...

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Boeing Completes Delta System Definition Review of Crew Space Transportation...

Boeing Completes Delta System Definition Review of Crew Space Transportation...

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Jun , 2011

Boeing completed the Delta System Definition Review (SDR) of the company’s Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 space capsule design. The milestone follows NASA’s award of a Commercial Crew...

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Chinese restraint has its limits, Vietnam cautioned

Chinese restraint has its limits, Vietnam cautioned

By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Jun , 2011

Through articles in the Chinese Communist Party controlled media that appeared on June 20 and 21, 2011, the Chinese authorities have clearly warned of the likely consequences of what they see as...

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Indo-Pak Foreign Secretaries’ Talks

Indo-Pak Foreign Secretaries’ Talks

By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Jun , 2011

  Mrs. Nirupama Rao, India’s Foreign Secretary, and her Pakistani counterpart Mr. Salman Bashir are to meet at Islamabad on June 23 and 24, 2011. The meeting is expected to review the results of...

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Post-Abbottabad Pak sulking has had no impact on Obama

Post-Abbottabad Pak sulking has had no impact on Obama

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Jun , 2011

Pakistan’s post-Abbottabad sulking and partly-real, partly-manufactured anti-US anger have had no impact on President Barack Obama’s counter-sanctuary emphasis in his counter-terrorism strategy....

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Somali Piracy: New Delhi groping in the dark

Somali Piracy: New Delhi groping in the dark

By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Jun , 2011

  We are still groping in the dark in matters relating to action against the Somali pirates, who are more and more active despite all the preventive patrolling, more and more venturesome coming...

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The case against Rana

The case against Rana

By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Jun , 2011

  US District Judge Harry D Leinenweberwas reported to have ruled at Chicago on June 9,2011, that TahawurHussainRana, of the Chicago cell of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LET), was guilty of supporting the...

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China’s Guantanamo Bay!

China’s Guantanamo Bay!

By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Jun , 2011

 All right-thinking persons of the world have spoken for a decade against the military detention centre set up by the US in the Guantanamo Bay area of Cuba for detaining and interrogating all Al...

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Upgraded AN-32 RE Aircaft inducted into IAF

Upgraded AN-32 RE Aircaft inducted into IAF

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Jun , 2011

Four of the first batch of five AN-32 tactical transport aircraft that recently underwent ‘total technical life extension’ (TTLE), overhaul and re-equipment at Ukraine were inducted into the...

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Military Airbus C295 with AEW&C Rotodome completes maiden flight

Military Airbus C295 with AEW&C Rotodome completes maiden flight

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Jun , 2011

The first Airbus Military C295 development aircraft fitted with an Airbone Early Warning sand Command (AEW&C) rotodome has successfully completed its first flight on 7th June 2011 at Airbus...

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Upcoming at Paris Air Show: New Fiber to the Screen Solution

Upcoming at Paris Air Show: New Fiber to the Screen Solution

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Jun , 2011

TE Connectivity (TE) introduces the new Fiber To The Screen (FTTS) fiber-optic backbone and interconnect scheme for in-flight entertainment systems. This new system allows the most efficient...

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 Balochistan: Greater Realism in China and Iran

Balochistan: Greater Realism in China and Iran

By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Jun , 2011

  Independently of each other, China and Iran seem to be developing doubts in their mind about the ability of the Pakistani Armed Forces to restore normalcy in Balochistan and put down the Baloch...

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China’s African Safari

China’s African Safari

By: Rohit Singh | Issue: Vol 26.2 Apr-Jun 2011 | Date: 08 Jun , 2011

The first decade of the 21st century has seen subtle changes in Chinese foreign policy. Reasons may be many, but the principal foreign policy determinant has been the demands of the Chinese...

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US welcomes news of historic sale of ten C-17 Aircraft to India

US welcomes news of historic sale of ten C-17 Aircraft to India

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Jun , 2011

The United States Government welcomed the media reports of the sale of ten Boeing C-17 Globemaster III aircraft to the Indian Air Force (IAF). The acquisition will significantly boost the Indian...

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DCNS India signed an indigenization contract under the Scorpene submarines...

DCNS India signed an indigenization contract under the Scorpene submarines...

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Jun , 2011

The Contract was signed between Flash Forge India Pvt. Ltd., based in Visakhapatnam, and DCNS India Pvt. Ltd. The production by the shipyard Mazagon Dock Ltd. (MDL) of six SSK Scorpene...

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DCNS presents latest underwater innovations at UDT Europe 2011

DCNS presents latest underwater innovations at UDT Europe 2011

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Jun , 2011

The 2011 edition of the annual UDT Europe show – a leading forum for the international undersea defence community – will be held in London, UK, from 7 to 9 June. DCNS specialists will present...

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Controp is launching M-STAMP  – a breakthrough option for SUAVs at Paris Air...

Controp is launching M-STAMP – a breakthrough option for SUAVs at Paris Air...

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Jun , 2011

CONTROP has added a new product which was recently developed and has already being procured: the new M-STAMP – a multi sensor payload for small UAVs! Due to the fact that SUAV manufacturers are...

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Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental and Freighter to Debut at Paris Air Show

Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental and Freighter to Debut at Paris Air Show

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Jun , 2011

Boeing’s two new 747-8 airplane models – the Intercontinental passenger version and the Freighter version – will make their international debuts at the Paris Air Show, joining the innovative 787...

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IAF Develops Accident Probability Factor Calculator

IAF Develops Accident Probability Factor Calculator

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Jun , 2011

Flight Safety or Aerospace Safety is an ongoing concern for all organisations involved in aviation. In recent times, significant progress has been made in the field of flight safety in terms of...

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Alliances and Autonomy: Lessons from Germany

Alliances and Autonomy: Lessons from Germany

By: Dr Prem Mahadevan | Issue: Vol 26.2 Apr-Jun 2011 | Date: 06 Jun , 2011

With the world remaining focused on NATO military intervention in Libya, a major shift has been quietly occurring in international relations. Germany, for long a staunch member of the...

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