IDR Updates
Did General Kayani and Pasha give shelter to Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad?
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 May , 2011
Gen.Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, the present Chief of the Army Staff (COAS), Gen.Nadeem Taj, who retired recently, and Lt.Gen. Ahmed ShujaPasha, who is on an year’s extension after having...
Indian Navy Rescues Chinese Merchant Ship from Pirates
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 May , 2011
On the morning of 05 May an Indian Navy’s TU 142 aircraft’s persistant efforts lead to pirates evacuating a Chinese merchant vessel MV Full City. At about 0845 hrs on 05 May 11, the Indian Navy...
Pakistan: The cost of two-nation theory
By: Anand K Verma | Issue: Book Excerpt: Reassessing Pakistan | Date: 06 May , 2011
Mohammed Ali Jinnah is on record, claiming that he brought about Pakistan single-handedly. Had he not been born would Pakistan exist today? Historians have always found the ‘Ifs’ of history...
Laden and Ladenism
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 May , 2011
Osama Bin Laden has been killed by the Americans, though many Pakistanis and Arabs do not believe so in the absence of such “hard evidence” as displaying his dead body or the burying ritual....
Sikorsky recognizes Indian sub continent as a potential aerospace market
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 May , 2011
Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, a United Technologies company and the largest helicopter manufacturer of the world reiterates its commitment to the Indian market and recognizes the aerospace...
Aegis Combat Systems Installed on Two New US Navy Destroyers
By: IDR News Network | Date: 04 May , 2011
The U.S. Navy, supported by Lockheed Martin, has installed the Aegis Combat System aboard two new Navy destroyers, USS Gravely (DDG 107) and USS Jason Dunham (DDG 109). The Aegis Combat Systems...
Successful firing test of AASM with laser terminal guidance
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 May , 2011
French defense procurement agency DGA successfully performed a demonstration firing test of the AASM modular air-to-ground weapon against a land target moving at high speed. The test was carried...
President Obama declares Osama Bin Laden dead
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 May , 2011
President Obama: Good evening. Tonight, I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al...
Bin Laden’s reported death in Islamabad
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 May , 2011
In connection with news that Osama bin Laden has been killed in a missile strike—possibly in or near Islamabad— I am reproducing below an article written on June 28, 2010, on the hunt for him....
Chinese media coverage of chopper in Arunachal
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 May , 2011
An M-17 helicopter of the Indian Air Force (IAF) crashed near Tawang in India’s Arunachal Pradesh on November 19,2010, killing all the 12 persons—11 from the Indian Air Force including the two...
US Ambassador: Our cooperation has taken off
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Apr , 2011
Ambassador Timothy J. Roemer while addressing AMCHAM Annual General Meeting at New Delhi said: We have had many big events this year and it seemed that Amcham was involved in most of them. From...
Israel acquires additional Lockheed Martin C-130J Super Hercules
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Apr , 2011
Lockheed Martin has received an Undefinitized Contract Action from the U.S. Government for the Foreign Military Sale of an additional C‑130J to Israel, with funding for advanced procurement...
Terrorist Attacks from Sea
By: Vice Adm Rajeshwer Nath | Issue: Vol 24.1 Jan-Mar 2009 | Date: 29 Apr , 2011
Role of Offshore Patrol Vessels The growing spurt of Pirate activities and the unique 26/11 terrorist attack from the sea, has engendered the need to review the naval assets and determine the...
Boeing Statement on India’s MMRCA Decision
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Apr , 2011
Boeing released the following statement on the government of India’s Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft (MMRCA) decision: “Boeing today was notified that our Super Hornet proposal for India’s...
US Ambassador comments on Indian Defense Procurement
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Apr , 2011
The U.S. Embassy in New Delhi was informed yesterday that two aircraft offered by the U.S. Government through the Foreign Military Sales process were not selected for procurement by the Indian...
Incriminating spotlight on ISI in the US
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Apr , 2011
Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Directorate has come under incriminating spotlight in the US as a result of the ongoing judicial proceedings in a Chicago court against Tahawwur...
AgustaWestland competes for US Air Force Programs
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Apr , 2011
AW139M and HH-71 offers lowest cost and optimal performance for the missions AgustaWestland North America, an AgustaWestland company, is pleased that the U.S. Air Force has announced it is...
China starts demonisation of Kirti Monastery Monks
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Apr , 2011
The authorities of the Aba County in the Aba Tibetan-Qiang Autonomous Prefecture of the Sichuan province where the Kirti monastery is located, have started a demonisation campaign against the...
Boeing Vigilare System Completes Operational Testing in Australia
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Apr , 2011
Network centric command and control system participates in RAAF combat exercise Boeing Vigilare network centric command and control system has passed its last formal operational test. Testing...
Third Jihadi Attack on Pak Navy since Lal Masjid Raid
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Apr , 2011
Two Pakistani naval personnel— a commissioned officer of the rank of Sub-Lieutenant and a sailor— were among four persons killed in two separate but coordinated explosions in Karachi on April...