Articles By Lt Gen VK Saxena
DAP 2020: Solid Provisions Demand Solid Implementation
By: Lt Gen VK Saxena | 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 VK Saxena | 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 VK Saxena | 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 VK Saxena | 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 VK Saxena | 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 VK Saxena | 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 VK Saxena | 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 VK Saxena | 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 VK Saxena | 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 VK Saxena | 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...