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Indian Navy: Time to Explore Drone Motherships
May 26, 2020 Dr Vijay Sakhuja Commentary

Technological disruptions led by Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) technologies are now a common feature among the advanced navies. Smart, intelligent, predictive and cognitive technologies are being added to the menu of naval warfare. The military/....

National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence

Tags : Commentary , 4IR technologies , Drone Mothership , UAV , UUV) , Indian Navy , Make in India , Atma Nirbhar Bharat , FDI , DTIS
DTIS – Keeping up the Pace and Momentum
May 25, 2020 Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM Article

On 30 Apr 2020 the Prime Minister (PM) held a meeting with various stakeholders to discuss ways to boost the Defence and Aerospace sector1. Within a fortnight of this important meeting, the Defence Minister has launched the Defence Testing....

National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence

Tags : Article , MoD , DTIS , Testing and Integration , Make-I , Make-II
Beyond the COVID-19: Indian Defence Industry
May 06, 2020 Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM Article

The social media is bulging at seams in making unending predictions by the hour related to the ‘life after Covid’. The continuum ranges from a ‘total doomsday’ scenario painted by the naysayersto the ‘we will win’ and how the life will be....

National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence

Tags : Article , Defence industry , COVID-19 , Challenges of Services , Defence and aerospace sector , Post covid world
Biotechnology and Biological Warfare – its Applicability to Indian Armed Forces
April 27, 2020 Maj Gen (Retd.) P K Chakravorty Article

What is Biotechnology? The technology which is based on biology is known as biotechnology which harnesses cellular and bio molecular processes to develop technologies and products that help improve our lives and the health of our planet.....

National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence

Tags : Article , applications , Biotechnology , Biological , Delivery
Drone Swarms: Bracing up with The New Threat
April 27, 2020 Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM Article

(This article linked with a previous article titled, Drone Swarms - a Growing Lethality. Where is the world? Where are we? published on the VIF portal on 06 Apr 20201.While the said article highlighted the growing lethality of th....

National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence

Tags : Article , Defence , Missiles , Hypersonic weapons , Drone swarms , Driven crafts , Swarm Threat
Armed Forces in Aid to Civilian Authorities in COVID-19 environment
April 14, 2020 Jaideep Chanda Article

COVID-19 has tested healthcare and associated infrastructure of nations like nothing else before. There are precedents e.g. the Spanish Flu, but none on the scale of COVID-19. Under such a catastrophic environment, the role of the Armed Forces in ass....

National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence

Tags : Article , Army , Indian Navy , CDS , COVID-19 , Quarantine , IAF , Force preservation , Assistance Civil authorities , logistics
Drone Swarms -a Growing Lethality…. Where is the World? Where are We?
April 06, 2020 Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM Article

The credit of using the unmanned platform for the first time goes to Austria, when in1849 it attacked the Italian city of Venice using unmanned balloons loaded with explosives1. Surely, the Austrian warriors could have never imagined that ....

National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence

Tags : Article , artificial intelligence , Air defence , Drone swarms , drone capabilities , UAV-X , Kamikaze drone , autonomous warfare , weaponised drones
Defence Exports: Analysing the Armenian Success
March 18, 2020 Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM Article

On 01 Mar 2020, the media was abuzz with the breaking news of India having won a 40 million USD contract to supply four Swathi Weapon Locating Radars (WLR) to Armenia beating strong competitors like Russia and Poland1. A contract of th....

National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence

Tags : Article , DRDO , BrahMos , Swathi WLR , Defence Exports , DPSU , Akash missile , radars
Creating an Effective CDS for India’s National Defence
February 13, 2020 VIF Study Group Report Article

Background Nearly two decades after submission of the Kargil Review Committee (KRC) report in 1999, the Group of Ministers (GOM) Report in 2001 and recommendations of the Naresh Chandra Task Force in 2012, the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS)....

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Tags : Article , CDS , Govt CDS initiative , Guidelines on CDS function , MoD reforms
भारत के चीफ ऑफ डिफेंस स्टाफ: कुछ अनसुलझे मुद्दे
February 04, 2020 Gautam Sen Article

भारत सरकार ने देश की रक्षा सेवाओं से जुड़े सभी मामलों पर रक्षा मंत्री के इकलौते सलाहकार तथा सैन्�....

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