IDR Updates
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...