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Defence Production and Export Promotion Policy 2020: Effective Implementation is the Key

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

Following closely on the heels of Draft Defence Acquisition Procedure (DAP) 2020, which was open for comments till 10 Aug 2020, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has formulated another document called Defence Production and Export Promotion Policy 2020,

September 16, 2020 National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence, Article, Defence Exports, DPEPP 2020, Defence Procurements, DAP 2020

India’s Air Defence: What Needs to be Integrated?

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

The issue of creation of Air Defence Command is very much relevant in the current context with many subject matter experts (or otherwise) giving their special comments on what needs to be done and what must be avoided. While the author’s detaile

August 24, 2020 National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence, Article, Army, Air Force, Air Defence Command, ADCRs, GB ADWs, IACCS, Integrated AD Systems, SAMs

Countering the Dragon in the Skies

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

This is a linked brief with the previous work titled ‘Power Behind Arrogance’ carried on the VIF portal on 23 Jun 2020.1 The previous article dealt with the analysis of the air and missile arsenal of China. It analysed how the Chinese air threatm

August 08, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy, China, Article, Chinese threat, PLAAF threat, IAF air and missile power

DTIS – Keeping up the Pace and Momentum

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

On 30 Apr 2020 the Prime Minister (PM) held a meeting with various stakeholders to discuss ways to boost the Defence and Aerospace sector1. Within a fortnight of this important meeting, the Defence Minister has launched the Defence Testing Infrastruc

May 25, 2020 National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence, Article, MoD, DTIS, Testing and Integration, Make-I, Make-II

Beyond the COVID-19: Indian Defence Industry

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

The social media is bulging at seams in making unending predictions by the hour related to the ‘life after Covid’. The continuum ranges from a ‘total doomsday’ scenario painted by the naysayersto the ‘we will win’ and how the life will be

May 06, 2020 National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence, Article, Defence industry, COVID-19, Challenges of Services, Defence and aerospace sector, Post covid world

Drone Swarms: Bracing up with The New Threat

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

(This article linked with a previous article titled, Drone Swarms - a Growing Lethality. Where is the world? Where are we? published on the VIF portal on 06 Apr 20201.While the said article highlighted the growing lethality of the drone swarms, the c

April 27, 2020 National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence, Article, Defence, Missiles, Hypersonic weapons, Drone swarms, Driven crafts, Swarm Threat

Drone Swarms -a Growing Lethality…. Where is the World? Where are We?

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

The credit of using the unmanned platform for the first time goes to Austria, when in1849 it attacked the Italian city of Venice using unmanned balloons loaded with explosives1. Surely, the Austrian warriors could have never imagined that this humble

April 06, 2020 National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence, Article, artificial intelligence, Air defence, Drone swarms, drone capabilities, UAV-X, Kamikaze drone, autonomous warfare, weaponised drones

Defence Exports: Analysing the Armenian Success

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

On 01 Mar 2020, the media was abuzz with the breaking news of India having won a 40 million USD contract to supply four Swathi Weapon Locating Radars (WLR) to Armenia beating strong competitors like Russia and Poland1. A contract of this magnitud

March 18, 2020 National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence, Article, DRDO, BrahMos, Swathi WLR, Defence Exports, DPSU, Akash missile, radars

Ukranian Tragedy - The Bigger Question

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

Far Beyond ‘Just a Human Error’ This article argues that that the downing of the Ukrainian civil airliner by an Iranian missile on 08 Jan 2020 that took 176 innocent lives1 is an incident that goes far beyond than ‘just a human error’; a

January 28, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy, Article, Quds Force, IRGC, missile strike, Ukrainian aircraft, human error, fratricide