Vivekananda International Foundation | Seeking Harmony in Diversity

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

Internet of Things and Implications in a Developing Economy

Col KPM Das (Retd)

Introduction

Internet, today, has become an essential element in people’s lives and, in an extended way, in the affairs of communities and in the conduct of everyday affairs. There is a pervading view that Internet access...

October 3, 2017 applications, economic transformation, Internet of Things, Make in India, Skill India, Technological and Scientific Studies

Beyond the Rhetoric - The Bottom line Challenges for Ground Based Air Defence

Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM

Gun Systems

No country the word over ever throws away its old calibres (implying gun systems). Russia is still going strong with its 57 mm, 85 mm air defence guns (besides the newer vintage of 23 mm and 30 mm). Sweden,...

August 30, 2017 Air defence, Development, Weapon up-grade, Technological and Scientific Studies

Modernisation of Artillery- A Quantum Jump

Maj Gen (Retd.) P K Chakravorty

Quantum Jump- Artillery Modernisation

The Indian Artillery is currently in a Network Centric Warfare (NCW) Environment and has to provide Surveillance and Reconnaissance resulting in Target Acquisition, which would lead to...

May 11, 2017 Artillery, developments, modernisation, Modernisation of Artillery, Network Centric Warfare, Quantum Jump, War, Technological and Scientific Studies

Pakistan’s Focus on Babur and Raad Cruise Missiles

Maj Gen (Retd.) P K Chakravorty

Introduction

Cruise missiles, unlike ballistic missiles, fly an essentially horizontal cruise path for most of the duration of its flight and can manoeuvre like an aircraft through way points. They are difficult to locate and...

February 23, 2017 Babur, BrahMos, Missiles, Pakistan, Raad, Technological and Scientific Studies

11th Aero India: Some of the Likely Technologies at Display

Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM

Professionals and Subject Matter Experts look forward with awaited breadth, the unfolding of the 11th Edition of Aero India at the Air Force Station Yelahanka, slated from 14-18 Feb 17; that is precisely 18 days on the countdown today. With more...

February 10, 2017 Aero-India, Latest aviation technology, UAV, Technological and Scientific Studies

Agni I to VI and Counting...... - A Journey of Strength-to-Strength

Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM

This article chronicles the story of the Agni Surface-to-Surface Missile (SSM) from inception till date. In that, it brings out the rationale, as to why we moved from Agni I to Agni II and beyond up to Agni VI, and continuing further. It flags...

January 23, 2017 Agni VI, Ballistic Missile, SSM, Surface-to-Surface Missile, Technological and Scientific Studies

Bringing Down The Unmanned Machine: A Formidable Challenge and Suggested Way Ahead

Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM

The Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) is as much an attackers’ delight as it is a defenders’ nightmare. In that, while the attackers are celebrating many a virtues of the unmanned phenomenon (long range, tremendous endurance, precision kill, all...

October 18, 2016 Air defence, cheap kill solutions, ground based kill system, Kinetic kill, soft-kill mode, Unmanned Aerial System, Technological and Scientific Studies

Muddying the waters

Sarosh Bana

Yopa mayatanam veda ayatanam bhavati
He who knows the source of water, becomes established in his Self
-- from Taithreeya Aranyakam (1.22) of Yajur Veda

Water, the life...

June 10, 2016 Water problem, Waters, Technological and Scientific Studies

सैन्य मामलों में लंबित परिवर्तनः भारतीय सेना

Lt General Davinder Kumar, PVSM, VSM Bar, ADC (Retd.)

इतिहास साक्षी है कि, उन्नत हो रही प्रौद्योगिकी और बदलती रणनीति ने युद्ध लड़ने के तरीके में क्रांति ला दी है। हालांकि, प्रौद्योगिकी ने जितनी तेजी से सूचना और संचार प्रौद्योगिकी (आईसीटी) एवं मीडिया के क्षेत्र में व्यापक रूप से अपनी पैठ बनाई है,...

May 30, 2016 Hindi, Military Affairs, Technological and Scientific Studies