Articles By Gp Capt Atul Pant
C2D2: An Agile Defence Acquisition Model
By: Gp Capt Atul Pant | Issue: Courtesy: IDSA | Date: 08 Aug , 2019
In the fall of 2017, Vice Admiral Mathias Winter, the Programme Executive Officer for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Programme, had proposed a new futuristic acquisition strategy for the United...
India’s First Step Towards Regulating Drones
By: Gp Capt Atul Pant | Issue: Courtesy: IDSA | Date: 02 Nov , 2018
After a prolonged wait, the Director General Civil Aviation’s (DGCA’s) Civilian Aviation Requirements (CAR) for Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS), popularly called drones, were finally released...
Aerial Drone Swarms: The Next Generation Military Weapon
By: Gp Capt Atul Pant | Date: 15 Feb , 2018
During the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics at Pyeongchang, a spectacular pre-recorded display by a quadcopter drone swarm comprising of 1218 drones left spectators astounded. Through...
EMP Weapons and the New Equation of War
By: Gp Capt Atul Pant | Issue: Courtesy: IDSA | Date: 16 Oct , 2017
An electromagnetic pulse (EMP) is an intense burst of electromagnetic (EM) energy that causes, or can be used to cause, damage. Though natural EMP is always noticed as disturbances on the radio...