IDR Updates
KMW’s DINGO for a safe recovery
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Oct , 2010
The multitudinous and extremely variable DINGO 2 family from Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) has welcomed a new arrival. The company presented the armoured DINGO 2 recovery vehicle at the EUROSATORY...
Trajectory to regional and global power
By: Anand K Verma | Issue: Vol 24.3 Jul-Sep 2009 | Date: 26 Oct , 2010
Many observers have commented that the 21st century belongs to India (and China). Since economics is increasingly becoming the currency of power, this statement acknowledges the changing...
Eurofighter committed to deepening strategic partnership with India
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Oct , 2010
Eurofighter, its partner companies and the four nation members of the European consortium Germany, UK, Italy and Spain, are fully committed to deepening the strategic partnership with India....
EADS to Focus on India
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Oct , 2010
As per EADS Chief Executive (Defence & Security) Stefan Zoller, European aerospace consortium, Eurofighter, is set to transfer some development work of its fourth generation Eurofighter Typhoon...
India Goes Airborne : C130J Super Hercules for India
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Oct , 2010
The first three of the six C130J Super Hercules aircraft for India have taken the final positions on Lockheed Martin’s assembly line in Marietta, Georgia. Equipped with Infra-red Detection Set...
Why Pak Army reacted strongly to copter strike in Kurram?
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Oct , 2010
“The US, while targeting the Haqqanis, is pursuing the ‘hammer and anvil approach’. Alongside the spike in the drone attacks, US Special Forces have launched an intense operation against the...
Unpredictable China: are we prepared?
By: Col Narender Kumar | Issue: Vol 25.2 Apr-Jun 2010 | Date: 22 Oct , 2010
The rise of China’s military power and its reach and capabilities has surprised the world. China has moved beyond the doctrine of “local wars under conditions of high tech environment” to...
Dangerous Islamisation of Kashmir
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Oct , 2010
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has just returned from Kashmir. He appealed for peace and requested the “separatists” to return to the negotiating table. He held a series of conferences with...
AgustaWestland awarded contract by the Maryland State Police Aviation Command
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Oct , 2010
AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica company, is pleased to announce today that it has been awarded a contract by the Maryland State Police Aviation Command to provide six AW139 helicopters for their...
Need to act swiftly and decisively on J&K
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Oct , 2010
The situation in Jammu & Kashmir is going from bad to worse. The widespread acts of violence on the Eid day and the outburst on September 13, 2010, in the wake of baseless rumours of insult to...
Will Pakistan’s queer diplomacy work?
By: Dr Uddipan Mukherjee, PhD | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Oct , 2010
It shall not be an overstatement that India is at the focal point of Pakistan’s foreign policy. And it shall remain so unless the chassis of theocratic-jihadi complex which propels the...
BEL Manufactured Equipment for Boeing P-8I
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Oct , 2010
Boeing received the first Indian manufactured item the Data Link II a month ahead of schedule, to be installed during the final assembly of the P-8I at its facility in Renton, Washington. Data...
Eurocopter inaugurates its new Eurocopter India subsidiary
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Oct , 2010
Eurocopter today inaugurated its new Indian subsidiary, which has been given the goals of expanding the world’s largest helicopter manufacturer’s commercial presence in this highly-promising...
Agenda for Obama’s Visit : Counter – Terrorism
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Oct , 2010
Indo-US co-operation in counter-terrorism has the following components: Assistance in capacity building in traditional counter-terrorism: Started in the early 1980s during the administration of...
Myanmar going Nuclear
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Vol 24.4 Oct-Dec 2009 | Date: 20 Oct , 2010
There has been an unmistakable spurt in the development and acquisition of nuclear weapon capabilities by the Military Junta regime in Myanmar. Given the level of progress in this regard, it is...
India and France share common objectives in Indian Ocean and Afghanistan
By: Admiral Edouard Guillaud | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Oct , 2010
Admiral Edouard Guillaud, Chief of Defence Staff, France in a press conference at New Delhi said that his first assessment is that the world is currently undergoing a tremendous change, at a...
DCNS wins EU funding for maritime safety R&D
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Oct , 2010
Improved maritime surveillance is a major challenge for European Union member states. In support of research in this important area, the European Commission has selected the I2C project led by...
Transformation of The Chinese Military
By: Alexandre Sheldon-Duplaix | Issue: Vol 21.1 Jan-Mar 2006 | Date: 19 Oct , 2010
China’s fifth white paper, published in December 2004, outlines the objectives of a military policy focused on Taiwan1. Weaponry and equipment are identified as “the crucial material and...
Combating ‘Red Terror’
By: Col Rajinder Singh | Issue: Vol 25.1 Jan-Mar 2010 | Date: 19 Oct , 2010
The Indian ‘Red Brigade’ is the Indian brand of Taliban. It assumes different aliases, the current favourite being ‘Maoists’. In the modern context, they stand for ‘insurgency,...
Future Trends in Aviation
By: Air Marshal BK Pandey | Issue: Vol 25.1 Jan-Mar 2010 | Date: 19 Oct , 2010
Birth and Growth of Aviation Since the Wright Brothers took their first hesitant hop just over a century ago, aeronautical science has advanced at a phenomenal pace seemingly defying all limits...