IDR Updates
New Laser Weapon System from Boeing
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Apr , 2013
American aerospace and defence major Boeing is gearing up to test a new land-based 10KW solid-state laser weapon called the High Energy Laser Mobile Demonstrator (HEL MD) that can shoot down...
Future Indian ICV Project
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Apr , 2013
The Future Infantry Combat Vehicle (FICV), intended to replace the Indian Army’s 2,600 BMP-2 vehicles at an estimated cost of Rs 50,000 crore, slated to be India’s biggest-ever indigenous...
More than 7,000 Boeing airplanes worldwide include China built parts
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Mar , 2013
China becomes first country outside of U.S. to take delivery of 1,000 Boeing airplanes Boeing and China Eastern Airlines today celebrated the delivery of the 1,000th Boeing airplane for China,...
AgustaWestland announces new contracts valued EUR 110 million in South East...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Mar , 2013
AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica company, has announced new orders, valued about EUR 110 million, at LIMA exhibition (Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace), that is taking place in...
India a mere spectator in the Great Game!
By: Danvir Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Mar , 2013
The Great Game or the Geo Strategic power play, in Afghanistan, started somewhere in 1813, post Russo-Persian treaty. Since then over the two centuries, this region has witnessed varied players;...
Revoking AFSPA would be a folly
By: Sunita Vakil | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 30 Mar , 2013
The new phase of violence that has swept Kashmir once again highlights the fact that the overall situation remains on knife’s edge. Militants disguised as cricketers killed five paramilitary...
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in China
By: Air Vice Marshal AK Tiwary | Issue: Vol. 28.1 Jan-Mar 2013 | Date: 28 Mar , 2013
China’s massive UAV developmental work has unhealthy implications for India. Soon Chinese capability will be of the latest standard and massive in size. If and when integrated in a manner...
Third Anti Submarine Warfare Corvette (ASW) for Indian Navy
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Mar , 2013
The third Anti Submarine Warfare (ASW) Corvette for the Indian Navy (IN) designed under Project-28 (P-28) by the Navy's Directorate of Naval Design, being built by one of India's leading...
Boeing, Bharat Electronics Expand Partnership in India
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Mar , 2013
Follow-on order to manufacture F/A-18 Super Hornet subassemblies Boeing and Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) are expanding their partnership through a follow-on contract involving the manufacture...
Is there an endgame in Afghanistan?
By: Vikram Sood | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Mar , 2013
The visit of U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel's visit to Kabul had been greeted by two suicide attacks on March 9 that left 18 dead. The Taliban were obviously leaving their calling card. But...
China rises, India falters
By: Vikram Sood | Issue: Courtesy: MidDay Mumbai | Date: 25 Mar , 2013
In a recent conversation with President Zardari, China’s newPresident, Xi Jinping declared that his country supported Pakistan in its efforts to maintain national sovereignty and independence...
Jihadis Refocusing on Kashmir
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Mar , 2013
Defence expert Bharat Verma says 12th March attack on the Srinagar CRPF camp is a sign that jihadi forces are now again focusing on Kashmir as they are freed from the Afghan conflict, thanks to...
Need a Muscular Indian Strategy in Afghanistan
By: Pinaki Bhattacharya | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 19 Mar , 2013
Even at the cost of sounding bellicose with that expressed need in the title of this paper, this writer will argue that Afghanistan stands as a shining example of the success of the country’s...
India’s Network Centric Warfare Programme
By: Raveen Janu | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 19 Mar , 2013
If a perusal is done of the military doctrines of the major advanced powers, one aspect that has a common theme across the board is information dominance. Network centricity is the backbone...
Defence Budget far from Threat Perception
By: Col (Dr) PK Vasudeva | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Mar , 2013
There is an overall decrease in the defence outlay of almost all countries in the world including India except China and Pakistan. According to the Stockholm International Peace Research...
Why New Delhi wants to forget 1962?
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Mar , 2013
While the Indian National Congress is still able to remember the role of former prime ministers Lal Bahadur Shastri and Indira Gandhi in the India-Pakistan conflicts of 1965 and 1971, it has...
HAL- Rolls-Royce Production Facility Inaugurated
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Mar , 2013
International Aerospace Manufacturing Limited’s (IAMPL) production facility was formally inaugurated in Bangalore today by Mr. K. Naresh Babu, Managing Director, HAL (Bangalore Complex)....
Uncomfortable questions on land-swapping with Bangladesh
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Mar , 2013
Pakistan has done it again. In its continuing hybrid war against India(about which I have already written in this column), two terrorists belonging to Hizbul Mujahedeen, which is based in...
Boeing Ships 5th WGS Satellite to Cape Canaveral for 2013 Launch
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Mar , 2013
Block II series transmits airborne ISR imagery 3 times faster Boeing recently shipped its fifth Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellite, which will provide the U.S. Air Force with faster...
Marines: An Over-anxiety to oblige the Italian Government
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Mar , 2013
An over-anxiety on the part of the Government of India to oblige the Italian Government on the issue of the two Italian Marines, who have been charged with killing two Kerala fishermen wrongly...