Articles in Vol. 36.1, Jan-Mar 2021
Artificial Intelligence in Avionics
By: Gp Capt AK Sachdev | Issue: Vol. 36.1, Jan-Mar 2021 | Date: 17 Apr , 2022
The term avionics was first used in late 1940s as a portmanteau conjoining ‘aviation’ and ‘electronics’ but since then, both aviation and electronics have undergone tremendous...
UAVs: A Potent Operational Asset
By: Air Marshal Anil Chopra | Issue: Vol. 36.1, Jan-Mar 2021 | Date: 31 Mar , 2021
Despite tacit understanding between China and India, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) continue to play a significant role in the face-off between them in Ladakh. Meanwhile, Pakistan continues to...
Self-Reliance in General Munitions and Energetics: Need for a Vision
By: Lt Gen (Dr) NB Singh | Issue: Vol. 36.1, Jan-Mar 2021 | Date: 25 Mar , 2021
“It’s all right to aim high if you have plenty of ammunition.” — Hawley R. Everhart The current stand-off at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) has once again highlighted the fact that...
114 Multi-Role Fighter Aircraft: Is there an Urgency for Procurement?
By: Gp Capt AK Sachdev | Issue: Vol. 36.1, Jan-Mar 2021 | Date: 22 Mar , 2021
The ignominious drubbing of 1962 was a shock for the Indian military, which was unprepared for a war due to its being ill-equipped and having shortfalls in war-making materials and munitions....
History of Shipbuilding in India
By: Vice Adm Rajeshwer Nath | Issue: Vol. 36.1, Jan-Mar 2021 | Date: 19 Mar , 2021
The India International Science Festival (IISF) 2020, held in December 2020, dealt with the “Congress of the History of Science in India from Shoonya to Mangalyaan”. The purpose of one of the...
Does India need a Strategic Bomber?
By: Air Marshal Anil Chopra | Issue: Vol. 36.1, Jan-Mar 2021 | Date: 10 Mar , 2021
A South China Morning Post, report of November 26, 2020, says, China’s H-20 stealth bomber will give China’s People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) a ‘truly intercontinental’ strike...
India-Pakistan War 1971: Analysis of India’s Military Strategy
By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Cheema | Issue: Vol. 36.1, Jan-Mar 2021 | Date: 07 Mar , 2021
Formulation of Political Objective The paradigm of war typically follows the sequence – ‘Confrontation-Crisis-Conflict-War-Resolution’.1 The 1971 India-Pakistan War generally unfolded to...
India’s Strategic Dominance in Space and Outer Space Laws
By: Lt Cdr Bharat Singh | Issue: Vol. 36.1, Jan-Mar 2021 | Date: 06 Mar , 2021
India’s Grasp of the Space and Universe Ancient India, since time immemorial, has had a profound understanding and association with space and the universe. India has always been a land of...
Announcing the Penta-Polar World
By: Navneet Bhushan | Issue: Vol. 36.1, Jan-Mar 2021 | Date: 01 Mar , 2021
India has been playing the power dynamics game without a long-term, consistent and constructed narrative or at least, there is not enough evidence of this being so. Secondly, India has perhaps...
India’s Iran-Israel Dilemma
By: Danvir Singh | Issue: Vol. 36.1, Jan-Mar 2021 | Date: 07 Feb , 2021
As tensions between Israel and Iran threaten to embroil the entire region, the consequences for India will be quite serious. This would pertain to not only managing its energy security, for which...
“If You Know Your Enemy…” — Why China did What it did in Ladakh?
By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa | Issue: Vol. 36.1, Jan-Mar 2021 | Date: 06 Feb , 2021
“If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don’t just be mad at him.” — Denzel Hayes Washington (American actor, director, and producer) Consequent to the five underground...
India’s Defence Budget of FY 21-22 falls short of Forces Expectation
By: Danvir Singh | Issue: Vol. 36.1, Jan-Mar 2021 | Date: 02 Feb , 2021
The Defence budget 2021 has fallen far below the expectations of many. Various defence experts and professionals were expecting a sizeable increase in the defence budget allocation for the...