Articles By Lt Gen (Dr) VK Saxena (Retd.)
636 Days and Counting – Which way the wind Blows now?
By: Lt Gen (Dr) VK Saxena (Retd.) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Nov , 2023
Deeply immersed in the Israel-Hamas duel of death destruction and catastrophe that is increasingly showing the ominous signs of spilling over as a larger West Asia war, the erstwhile media...
From Khmeimim to Moscow- Is there some Pattern?
By: Lt Gen (Dr) VK Saxena (Retd.) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Sep , 2023
It was 05 Jan 2018, when the first ever documented swarm drone attack in history happened on a Russian base at Khmeimim. It was 23 Sep 2023 when the latest of the drone attack happened near...
To Transform or To Perish?
By: Lt Gen (Dr) VK Saxena (Retd.) | Issue: Vol. 38.2, Apr-Jun 2023 | Date: 10 Aug , 2023
Premise We are passing through changing times. The ‘pace of change’ driven by the fast grind of ‘enabling technologies’ is blistering. The bottom-line is ‘flow with the tide and time or...
Making a Sense of the President’s Warning
By: Lt Gen (Dr) VK Saxena (Retd.) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Aug , 2022
The President warns… Come 24th Aug, and Ukraine will celebrate its 31st Independence Day in commemoration of the Declaration of Independence on this day in 1991[1]. President Zelensky has...
Combining the best of Man and Machine: Threats and Challenges
By: Lt Gen (Dr) VK Saxena (Retd.) | Issue: Vol. 36.4, Oct-Dec 2021 | Date: 27 Dec , 2021
The Unmanned Revolution Warfare has never been the same even after the ‘revolution’ brought about by the Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS). Staring from their humble capability of a mere...
An Important Milestone Achieved Quietly
By: Lt Gen (Dr) VK Saxena (Retd.) | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 13 Nov , 2021
The Event On 21 Sep 2021, a small drone was destroyed using the L-70 gun, duly integrated with an Anti-Drone System (ADS). This integration was demonstrated by Zen Technologies limited; a Hyderabad...
Forum Army 2021: Some Salient Points and Takeaways
By: Lt Gen (Dr) VK Saxena (Retd.) | Issue: Vol. 36.3, Jul-Sep 2021 | Date: 04 Oct , 2021
What is Forum 2021? International Military Technical Forum (called Forum in short) is an annual event organised and supported by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the Russian Federation. The 7th...
Ground Based Air Defense – New Realities: New Challenges
By: Lt Gen (Dr) VK Saxena (Retd.) | Date: 24 Jun , 2021
The new realities For Ground Based Air Defence (GBAD) in its operational role to counter the adversary’s air threat by being a part of the Integrated Air Defence System (IADS) at the national...
Why Iron Dome will short? What could be done: A Viewpoint?
By: Lt Gen (Dr) VK Saxena (Retd.) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 May , 2021
Premise This article argues that in the ‘duel’ involving the launch of rockets by Hamas, Fatah, Islamic Jihad and other Palestinian left wing groups from Gaza and their engagement by the...
DAP 2020: Solid Provisions Demand Solid Implementation
By: Lt Gen (Dr) VK Saxena (Retd.) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Oct , 2020
https://currenthunt.com/2020/10/defence-acquisition-procedure-dap-2020/ In a span of just two months, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has taken out two important documents that will have a...
Indian Defence Private Sector: Some Initial Successes Yet Miles To Go
By: Lt Gen (Dr) VK Saxena (Retd.) | Issue: Vol. Apr-Jun 2020, (35.2) & Jul-Sep 2020, (35.3) | Date: 07 Oct , 2020
The much publicised Strategic Partnership Model (SPM) launched with a laudable aim to allow the growth of the private sector through the route of Joint Ventures with foreign OEMs failed to deliver...
What S-400 will bring to the Indian Ground-Based Air Defence Capability?
By: Lt Gen (Dr) VK Saxena (Retd.) | Issue: Vol. 31.1 Jan-Mar 2016 | Date: 03 Jul , 2020
Good strides of progress, cutting across Service boundaries have taken place in automating the erstwhile manual/semi-automatic Control and Reporting (C&R) Nodes that exercise tactical, operational...
Sustaining Air Defence Weapon Systems: Facing the Challenge Here and Now
By: Lt Gen (Dr) VK Saxena (Retd.) | Issue: Vol. 33.4 Oct-Dec 2018 | Date: 09 Oct , 2019
If there is one challenge that stares insurmountably in the face of Air Defence warriors today, it is the challenge of sustaining and keeping alive, guns, missiles, sensors and Battle Management...
When India struck a fine strategic balance
By: Lt Gen (Dr) VK Saxena (Retd.) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Sep , 2018
This article re-visits Malabar Exercise 2018 and illustrates how India made some fine choices in pursuance to maintaining a fine strategic balance The twenty second addition of the Malabar...
Dealing with the Stealth Threat: The Way Forward
By: Lt Gen (Dr) VK Saxena (Retd.) | Issue: Vol. 33.1 Jan-Mar 2018 | Date: 24 Jun , 2018
The stealth muscle in the air threat vehicles of today is one dimension of survivability that is fast becoming a nightmare to air defence warriors. Why so? Because survivability directly...
The Nuances of Air Threat and Its Implications
By: Lt Gen (Dr) VK Saxena (Retd.) | Issue: Vol. 32.4 Oct-Dec 2017 | Date: 29 Mar , 2018
The multi-dimensional growth of air threat over time has taken place mainly along two major verticals. The first of these is the multiplicity of air threat vehicles. In that, the erstwhile duo of...
Why Drone Collaterals are Inevitable?
By: Lt Gen (Dr) VK Saxena (Retd.) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Jan , 2018
Drone strikes as a part of targeted killing campaigns against jihadist militants in various parts of the world (Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Syria and more) have always suffered...
Tiered Defence: Putting the SAM in Perspective
By: Lt Gen (Dr) VK Saxena (Retd.) | Issue: Vol. 31.4 Oct-Dec 2016 | Date: 23 Jan , 2017
There are questions as to why Ground Based Air Defence Weapon Systems (GBADWS) must be deployed in a layered and tiered fashion to provide an optimal degree of air defence cover to the assets...
The Contours of IDDM: A user’s Perspective
By: Lt Gen (Dr) VK Saxena (Retd.) | Issue: Vol. 31.3 Jul-Sep 2016 | Date: 23 Dec , 2016
It is my belief that, from such an amalgam, will rise the soul of IDDM. The recent news of hiring young IIT students for certain design assignments by the DRDO, implementation instructions of ADB...