IDR Updates
Geotech Aviation Ltd. Orders an AW119Ke Helicopter
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Mar , 2011
AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica company, is pleased to announce that Geotech Aviation Ltd. has signed for one AW119Ke helicopter with options for four additional aircraft. The helicopter will be...
Eurocopter becoming a global player in Aerospace Support and Services
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Mar , 2011
Eurocopter Holding, a subsidiary of EADS and Vector Aerospace Corporation, a Canadian company listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange, have entered into a Support Agreement pursuant to which...
Rheinmetall books new ammo orders from the US armed forces
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Mar , 2011
The United States Marine Corps has again contracted with Rheinmetall to supply it with special purpose and practice ammunition. The orders, worth around US$28 million (€20 million), make...
Boeing Places Final Beam on New Interiors Building
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Mar , 2011
Boeing Fabrication marked progress on its newest 787 Dreamliner interiors fabrication facility with a special ceremony commemorating placement of the last steel beam on the building. The beam –...
Need to guard against commando-style swarm attacks at Mohali
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Mar , 2011
The “Dawn” of Karachi has reported as follows in its web site: “The guessing game ended early hours on Sunday when the Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani decided to accept Indian...
India needs an intelligent strategy
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol 20.2 Apr-Jun 2005 | Date: 28 Mar , 2011
By a turn of good fortune, geo-political factors today favor India. We are perhaps the only country in the world with unique access to opposing camps, consisting of major and minor powers or...
Jasmine Revolution: Make or Break in Bahrain?
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Mar , 2011
The so-called ‘Jasmine Revolution’ in the Middle East, which has impacted the popular perception of the Western World, particularly amongst the uninformed, seems to have hit a roadblock in...
Neighbour is not sporting but we’ve handed out invite
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Mar , 2011
Not only the World Cup sporting fortunes of our cricket team in the quarter final match against Australia were in play, the political fortunes of our relations with Pakistan were at stake too....
India’s Losses and Gains in Post-Independence Wars – III
By: Maj Gen Sukhwant Singh | Issue: Book Excerpt: India's War since Independence | Date: 27 Mar , 2011
Care had not been taken at higher levels to verify the claims in accordance with the realities on the ground before preferring them at the negotiating table. The exaggeration might have been the...
India’s Role in the New World Order
By: Col Ajay Singh | Issue: Vol 26.1 Jan-Mar 2011 | Date: 25 Mar , 2011
Over the past five months or so, in spite of surfacing corruption charges, a virtual paralysis of parliament and sense of political drift in the country, India has had much to cheer about. The...
Designer Wars and India
By: Col Rajinder Singh | Issue: Vol 24.2 Apr-Jun 2009 | Date: 25 Mar , 2011
Be it military philosophies, social systems, cultural ethos, political doctrines, economic concepts, business environments and cosmic theories, technology over the last fifty years has been the...
India’s Losses and Gains in Post-Independence Wars – I
By: Maj Gen Sukhwant Singh | Issue: Book Excerpt: India's War since Independence | Date: 25 Mar , 2011
A nation has recourse to war either to further from a position of strength the interests it has not been able to promote by political and economic means, or when cornered by a stronger adversary...
EADS Confirms Exclusive Discussions
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Mar , 2011
In light of recent statements in the press, EADS (EUR:EAD) confirms that it has entered into an exclusivity agreement with Vector Aerospace Corporation (TSX:RNO). Any transaction is subject to...
Hardly any water in Wikileaks revelations
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Mar , 2011
Professional diplomats will find little that is new or startling in the Wikileaks cables. For them the quality and content of reporting in the leaked cables is quite standard fare. Transmitting...
India and Singapore Navies conduct maritime exercise
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Mar , 2011
The Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN) and the Indian Navy (IN) are conducting the annual Singapore Indian Maritime Bilateral Exercise (SIMBEX) from 18 to 25 Mar 2011. Hosted by Singapore, this...
Defence Acquisition Management Course
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Mar , 2011
The Indian Government has regularly revised the procurement procedures and policies for promoting active participation of the foreign and Indian private sector. To enable greater participation...
Libya: Increasing Confusion
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Mar , 2011
“The rebels’ strategy is to push west but this has got off to a halting start, and without further concerted air strikes it is difficult to see how this rag-tag army will ever achieve its aim of...
We the mere Indians
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Mar , 2011
The publication in instalments of leaked WikiLeaks diplomatic cables by selected newspapers such as the “Guardian”of the UK, the “New York Times”, “Le Monde” of France, “Der...
INAS 310 Golden Jubilee
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Mar , 2011
Cobras Mark Golden Jubilee- Two Unit citations, over eighty thousand hours of flying and firsts like Carrier Borne ASW and Information Warfare to credit Two unit citations, over 80,000 hrs of...
Will Pakistan Implode?
By: Maj Gen Dhruv C Katoch | Issue: Vol 26.1 Jan-Mar 2011 | Date: 21 Mar , 2011
Imagine a country where every week one or two young men – mostly in their teens, blow themselves up as suicide bombers in senseless acts of violence! Where targeted killings take place almost...