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Nano-Technology and its Military Application

June 28, 2019 Maj Gen (Retd.) P K Chakravorty Article

General Aspects Nano technology is science, technology and engineering conducted at nano scale of approximately 1 to 100 nanometre (nm).1 It is stated that physicist Richard Feynman is the father of this technology. It all star....

National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence

Tags : Article , Military application of nano-tecnology , R&D for nano-technology , Nano-advantage for Indian Army

5G Technology: Transformational Synthesis for Armed Forces

June 24, 2019 Lt Gen Rameshwar Yadav, PVSM, AVSM, VSM (Veteran) Article

Technological superiority has always been the main battle winning factor all through the history of warfare. With no matching weaponry in the Indian arsenal, Bharat, with all the requisite structures of a strong nationality, buckled in face of artill....

National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence

Tags : Article , Transition to 5G , Military connotations of 5G , Indigenous 5G

Gunners March Ahead on a New Path of Resurgence: A Perspective

June 03, 2019 Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM Article

The Jinx of Bofors It was not very long ago when the mere mention of Artillery summoned the unsavoury thought of 'the infamous Bofors'. A gun howitzer which in its aftermath of procurement dried up further acquisitions; for over three de....

National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence

Tags : Article , Indian artillery modernisation , Defence Make-in-India , Indian defence industry

Women Service Officers as Defence or Military Attache`s: Government has to do more to Ensure its Success

April 26, 2019 Gautam Sen Commentary

India`s defence minister has recently declared that the government has decided to appoint Women service officers as defence or military attaches in the Indian missions abroad. Though this decision has been hailed from many quarters and is being toute....

Defence , Governance and Political Studies

Tags : Commentary , Women service officers , women officers as defence attache’

Pakistan’s Nuclear Bluff

April 15, 2019 Maj Gen (Retd.) P K Chakravorty Article

Current Perspective 14 February 2019 was a clear day for movement of vehicles on the Jammu-Srinagar highway. It was after a long spell of road closure that the highway was opened. Viewing the frequent road closures, there was a need to mo....

National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence

Tags : Article , Proxy war under nuclear backing , Pakistan’s TNWs , Response to Pakistan’s nuclear rhetoric

Hypersonic Weapons - An Analysis

April 10, 2019 Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM Article

On 14 Mar 2019, Moscow's State controlled news agency TASS reported that Russia is getting ready to launch the Zircon Hypersonic Missile from a naval vessel. The Missile will have a capability of flying at Mach 8 (9878.4 Km per hour) and will be simp....

National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence

Tags : Article , Hypersonic weapons , Development of hypersonic missiles

India’s Post-Pulwama Response

April 03, 2019 Amruta Karambelkar Commentary

The attack on Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) convoy in Pulwama, J&K, shook the nation. This has been the worst hit on the security forces of its kind. The nation was horrified and there were widespread demands to respond with an iron hand. There....

National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence

Tags : Commentary , Balakot attack , Balakot game changer

A-SAT Missile Test: A Testimony to India's Growing Military and Scientific Prowess

March 30, 2019 Amb Satish Chandra, Vice Chairman, VIF Commentary

India's successful conduct of ‘Mission Shakti’ - an anti-satellite (A-SAT) missile test - on March 27, 2019 is testimony to its growing military and scientific prowess. The test entailed the destruction of an Indian satellite operating in lower e....

National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence

Tags : Commentary , India's anti-satellite missile , Mission Shakti

S-400: Rupee-Ruble Matrix and Other Points of Caution

March 07, 2019 Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM Article

Speaking to a select group of journalists on 22 Feb 2019 at the Aero India Show in Bengaluru, the Deputy Director of the Russian Military-Technical Cooperation Mr Anatoly said " Dollar is no longer the universal currency for trade in defence"1....

National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence

Tags : Article , S-400 , CAATSA , rupee-rouble trade

Pulwama and After

February 27, 2019 Maj Gen P K Mallick, VSM (Retd) Article

At least 44 personnel of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) were killed and 70 injured when a Maruti Eeco car laden with explosives rammed into a CRPF bus—part of a massive convoy—in Awantipora town of Pulwama District in Jammu and Kashmir (....

National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence

Tags : Article , Counter-terrorism , Pulwama retribution , Indian Army’s valour