India-Taiwan: Connecting With the Island Nation for Multiple Takeaways
Purport of the work
Taiwan - smaller than the State of Kerala (Taiwan - 36,197 km2, Kerala – 38863 Km2)[1]...
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(Former DG, Air Defence, Indian Army) (Higher Defence Analyst)
Contributions
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India and the Semiconductors’ Scenario Abstract These are exciting times. The world is in a scramble, trying to secure the ‘CHIP’ for itself. CHIP- that tiny wafer which controls all – from satellites to aircrafts, from weapons to telecommunications, from computers to...
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India’s Defence Exports: Onwards to a Goal that Seemed Impossible Start point - disbelief When the Draft Defence Production and Export Promotion Policy (DPEPP) issued on 03 Aug 2020 by the MoD had stated upfront a goal of achieving defence exports target of Rupees 35000 Crores as a part of the overall def...
Changing Shades of Russian Weapon Deployment in Ukraine War Picking up the Thread- the Premise The recent reports in the open source have stated that in the massive missile strikes on Ukraine between 06-10 Mar 2022, Russia has used ‘new age weapons’, namely the Kinzhal hypersonic cruise missiles...
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