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Changing Contours of Air Threat and its Implications in our Scenario
Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM

“Air power may either end war or end civilisation”.1 - Winston Churchill, House of Commons, 1933 Since the raison d’etre for the existence of air defence, be it on land, sea or in the air, is to counter the air threat from....

November 03, 2017 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Air defence , Indian Air Force , Air Threat
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, Italy, and....

August 30, 2017 Technological and Scientific Studies , Air defence , Weapon up-grade , Development
Critical Requirement of VSHORADS - A User's Perspective
Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM

Abstract The ongoing procurement case of Very Short Range Air Defence (VSHORAD) weapon system for the three Services is currently in the news both in the print, as well as, the digital media. Understandably, the information content in both of t....

May 23, 2017 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Air defence , defence procurement , Indian Army , VSORADS , DPP
Stoke the Indigenous Fire - A Way Ahead for Army Air Defence
Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM

Abstract Having been associated first hand with the twin process of sustenance of an ageing and vintage inventory of Ground Based Air Defence Weapon Systems (GBADWS) of the Corps of Army Air Defence (AAD) on one hand and the ....

May 15, 2017 National Security and Strategic Studies , Air defence , modernisation , Indigenisation
Air Defence: De-Mystifying Facts from Euphoria
Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM

Abstract If there was one news that dominated the media space like no other in the recently concluded BRICS Summit on 15-16 Oct, it was the one on the signing of the contract between India and Russia for the purchase of five Regiments ....

November 03, 2016 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Air defence , S 400 , Indo-Russian weapon trade , Ground Based Air Defence , BMC2 , ARH , UCAVs , UAVs , SSMs , Surface-to-Surface Missiles , Surface to Air Missiles , Voyska
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 weath....

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