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Commentary: International Solar Alliance - India’s Radiant Multilateralism
Amb Anil Trigunayat, Distinguished Fellow, VIF

On March 11 ,2018 India led the world into a new era of mutually beneficial multilateral effort, so necessary for the survival of the humanity, through the inauguration of the International Solar Alliance (ISA) in New Delhi by Prime Minister...

March 22, 2018 Climate Change, International Solar Alliance, Solar Mission, Commentary, Technological and Scientific Studies
Commentary: The Stealth Threat Has Arrived on our Borders ... What is the Way Ahead?
Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM

Stealth and Air Defence

The stealth muscle in the air threat vehicles of today is one dimension of survivability that is fast becoming a nightmare to the air defence warriors. Why so? Because, survivability directly...

March 19, 2018 Technological and Scientific Studies
Commentary: Some Niche Areas in Unmanned Operations and Technologies and Equipment in Support
Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM

Propelled by their enabling combat virtues like all-weather all-terrain operability, comprehensive mission spectrum, long ranges, tremendous endurance, precision strike capability and weapon loads that will give a run for their money to the...

February 27, 2018 artificial intelligence, SWARM attack, Unmanned aerial systems, Commentary, Technological and Scientific Studies
India should take up challenge of Lethal Autonomous Weapons System
Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF

Published in The Economics Times on 15 February 2018. Click here to read...

February 15, 2018 VIF Scholars Outreach, Technological and Scientific Studies
हंटर किलर से मौतें अपरिहार्य क्यों – तकनीकी पड़ताल
Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM

दुनिया के विभिन्न हिस्सों (पाकिस्तान, अफगानिस्तान, यमन, सीरिया, इराक और कई अन्य देश) में जिहादी आतंकवादियों के खिलाफ लक्षित हत्या के अभियानों में शामिल ड्रोन हमलों का एक नकारात्मक नतीजा हमेशा रहा है और वह है उन नागरिकों की अवांछित मौतें, जिन्हें...

February 13, 2018 Hindi, Hunter Killer Casualties, आतंकवादि के खिलाफ ड्रोन हमले, ड्रोन अभियानों में अवांछित मौत, Technological and Scientific Studies
Commentary: First Ever Swarm Attack has Happened
Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM

'We knew this day was coming' – Anon

Open sources are reporting that the Russian air base at Khmeimim and Tartus naval facility in West Syria have been struck on 05 Jan 18 by a SWARM of home-made drones. This is the first time that...

January 19, 2018 artificial intelligence, swarm tactics, Unmanned aerial systems, Commentary, Technological and Scientific Studies
Why Hunter Killer Casualties are Inevitable? - A Technical Analysis
Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM

Drone strikes, as a part of targeted killing campaigns against jihadist militants in various parts of the world (Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Syria and more), have always suffered with one common negative end product, i.e.,...

January 17, 2018 Drone strikes, technical limitations, unintended casualties, Technological and Scientific Studies
The Fascinating Journey of The Evolution of the Unmanned
Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM

Ever since the arrival of the unmanned aerial systems (UAS) on the scene, the battlefield has never been the same. In that, on one hand the attackers are exploiting many of the combat capabilities of UAS, the defenders are busy in harnessing new...

January 5, 2018 Historic evolution of UAV, Unmanned aerial systems, Technological and Scientific Studies
Achieving 63 GW Nuclear Capacity by 2032: Can it be done?
Dr Kapil Patil

A year before the announcement of the historic civil nuclear cooperation initiative between India and US in 2005, an important study by India’s Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) entitled, “Strategy for Growth of Electricity in India” envisaged...

January 3, 2018 nuclear power programme, target capacity addition, Technological and Scientific Studies
Services Qualitative Requirement (SQR): Need To Realise the Potential of New Provisions
Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM

Making the Services Qualitative Requirement (SQR) for a weapon system or an equipment not only marks the beginning of a defence procurement case, but also is a foundation on which rests the entire edifice of the subsequent procedure. Whether the...

November 22, 2017 defence procurement, enhanced parameters, L-I syndrome, Technological and Scientific Studies
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