Articles By Air Commodore Ramesh Phadke
Defence Budget 2016-17: A Clear Message to the Armed Forces
By: Air Commodore Ramesh Phadke | Issue: Courtesy: IDSA | Date: 04 Mar , 2016
At first I thought I had missed it but it soon became clear that the finance minister had in fact chosen not to mention the defence outlay in his long budget speech. There could be many reasons...
China’s Air and Space Strategy
By: Air Commodore Ramesh Phadke | Issue: Book Excerpt: Rise of China | Date: 05 Mar , 2015
“As for the revolution in soldiery, the competition between the military forces is moving to outer space here…. This is historically inevitable, and this development cannot be reversed. The...
Defending Indian Skies against the Chinese Air Force
By: Air Commodore Ramesh Phadke | Issue: Vol. 27.1 -Mar 2012 | Date: 08 Nov , 2012
As a rising power that detests competition, China might continue to test India’s resolve and patience through pinpricks on the border issue while progressively enhancing the level of...
Future of Asian Air Power-2030
By: Air Commodore Ramesh Phadke | Issue: Book Excerpt: Asia 2030 - The Unfolding Future | Date: 08 Jan , 2012
Air power has been with us for nearly a century. Within less than a decade of the historic first flight of a ‘heavier than air machine’ at Kitty Hawk in the US on 17 December 1903, the...