IDR Updates
Headley’s Case : Indian Distrust of FBI will increase International...
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Oct , 2010
More disclosures relating to David Coleman Headley of the Chicago cell of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LET) embarrassing to the USA’s Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have been brought out in two...
Facing the Dragon : is India prepared?
By: Maj Gen Dhruv C Katoch | Issue: Vol 25.1 Jan-Mar 2010 | Date: 18 Oct , 2010
The contours of India’s relationship with China have been tumultuous over the last six decades. From periods of great bonhomie in the mid fifties – the ‘Hindi-Chini Bhai Bhai’ years to...
‘Mission Action 2010’ Commencing
By: PLA Daily | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Oct , 2010
Exercise participating troops of Beijing MAC unfolds three-dimensional transportation (Source: PLA Daily) 2010-10-15 Since October 12, a group army of the Beijing Military Area Command (MAC) of...
Indian defence private industry should move from fringes to mainstream: Air...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Oct , 2010
“Indian private industry should move from fringes to mainstream,” observes Air Chief Marshall, PV Naik, Chief of Air Staff while speaking at the brochure release ceremony of the 5th...
The African Talibans
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Oct , 2010
The visit to India of Mr. Jean-David Levitte, the ‘sherpa’ of President Sarkozy, during the second week of October was hardly noticed. Monsieur Levitte is a very powerful man. In France,...
INS Kalpeni Commissioned into the Indian Navy
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Oct , 2010
The Latest Fast Attack Craft of the Indian Navy, INS Kalpeni was commissioned into the Indian Navy today by Hon’ble Mr Justice Jasti Chelameswar, Chief Justice, High Court of Kerala at Naval...
Rheinmetall and Timoney’s Advanced Chassis Technology for all-terrain...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Oct , 2010
Rheinmetall MAN Military Vehicles GmbH (RRMV) of Munich has entered a farreaching agreement with Timoney Technology Ltd. of Gibbstown, Ireland, to cooperate in the military logistic and tactical...
Chinese Attitude to US : Trust – Distrust Syndrome
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Oct , 2010
President Barack Obama has made another overture of likely strategic significance to China, which could be a new landmark in moves to strengthen the strategic partnership between the two...
U.S. Military places $68 Million Contract with Elbit America
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Oct , 2010
Elbit Systems of America was awarded a 5-year, $68 million Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) contract from the US Army Contracting Command in Huntsville, Alabama, to supply the...
The train in Tibet and the Clouds over Himalayas
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Oct , 2010
NEW China has no money problem. When Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao visited debt-laden Greece last week he promised to double trade in five years and buy Greek bonds when Athens returns to...
The Danger Signals from Pakistan
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Oct , 2010
More people were killed and more material damage was caused by the quake in Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (POK) and some parts of the North-West Frontier Province ( now called Khyber Pakhtunkwa ) in...
Politics at the Cost of India’s Security
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Oct , 2010
The indifference and lack of understanding amongst the country’s political leadership on matters relating to national security has been a part of our national culture. Several reasons could be...
Going global: Rheinmetall takes over Laingsdale Engineering
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Oct , 2010
The Defence arm of the Düsseldorf-based Rheinmetall Group continues to expand its foothold in South Africa. Rheinmetall has agreed to buy Laingsdale Engineering (Pty) Ltd of Maitland from the...
Elbit America RPDA Computer and Tacter for U.S. Army
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Oct , 2010
Elbit Systems of America, announced it was awarded follow-on orders from the United States Army PM Battle Command and PM Mortars for Rugged Personal Digital Assistant Computers (RPDA) and...
MBDA’s New Bunker Buster Warhead
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Oct , 2010
The second test firing of the Hard and Deeply Buried Target (HARDBUT) Next Generation Multiple Warhead System (NGMWS) was carried out successfully at the Biscarrosse test range of DGA Essais de...
No stability in Tibet-Xinjiang without Pakistan, says Chinese Writer
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Oct , 2010
An article published on October 12, 2010, by the Chinese Communist Party-controlled “Global Times” has questioned the reported description of Pakistan as a cancer by President Barack Obama. It...
Obama’s Gesture to China on Eve of Indian visit
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Oct , 2010
On the eve of his forthcoming visit to India next month, President Barack Obama has made an important gesture to China. Even while supporting the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Chinese...
Indian AWACS to participate in Indo-UK Air Exercise Indradhanush
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Oct , 2010
Indo-UK Air Force Exercise named Ex-Indradhanush would be taking place at Air Force Station Kalaikunda, in West Midinapur district, West Bengal from 18 Oct 2010 till 03 Nov 2010. This would be...
Soldier’s Final Inspection in Heaven by the Lord!
By: Sgt Joshua Helterbran | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Oct , 2010
The Soldier stood and faced God, Which must always come to pass. He hoped his shoes were shining, Just as brightly as his brass. ‘Step forward now, Soldier, How shall I deal with you?...
Lockheed Martin F35 selected by Israeli MoD for its next generation fighter
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Oct , 2010
Following the Israeli Government decision to select the Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] F-35 Lightning II as the Israel Air Force’s next-generation fighter aircraft, Israeli Ministry of Defense...