Articles in Vol. 32.2 Apr-Jun 2017

Dragon’s Flight: China’s Advances in Aerospace Technology

Dragon’s Flight: China’s Advances in Aerospace Technology

By: Gp Capt Joseph Noronha | Issue: Vol. 32.2 Apr-Jun 2017 | Date: 17 Jan , 2019

China’s leaders recognise that aerospace mastery is critical if it is to become a military superpower. The dragon is closing the technology gap with the US and Russia and it is likely to take a...

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The Strategic Bomber of Tomorrow: Stealth Spells Success

The Strategic Bomber of Tomorrow: Stealth Spells Success

By: Gp Capt Joseph Noronha | Issue: Vol. 32.2 Apr-Jun 2017 | Date: 04 Mar , 2018

Today, many nations have hundreds of multi-mission, flexible fighter aircraft on their inventory. And now that aerial refuelling has become the norm for most advanced air forces, including the...

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The F-35 Programme: Lessons for the Aviation Industry

The F-35 Programme: Lessons for the Aviation Industry

By: Air Marshal Anil Chopra | Issue: Vol. 32.2 Apr-Jun 2017 | Date: 03 Mar , 2018

The F-35 programme was being driven by a very professional team of uniformed and civilian members of the Pentagon. The Indian MoD needs to have such core ability and learn programme management....

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Make in India – Indian Style

Make in India – Indian Style

By: Air Marshal Dhiraj Kukreja | Issue: Vol. 32.2 Apr-Jun 2017 | Date: 25 Jan , 2018

The vibrant defence industrial base of DPSUs, OFs and R&D that has existed for decades has not produced the desired results; though there has been success in many fields, predominantly in space...

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Revamping the Combat Fleet of the IAF

Revamping the Combat Fleet of the IAF

By: Gp Capt AK Sachdev | Issue: Vol. 32.2 Apr-Jun 2017 | Date: 06 Nov , 2017

In the absence of any indigenously produced combat aircraft discounting the non-operational Tejas, India’s current aircraft are Russian (MiG-21, MiG-27, MiG-29, Su-30MKI), French (Mirage-2000)...

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How Worrisome is PLAAF Presence in Tibet?

How Worrisome is PLAAF Presence in Tibet?

By: Gp Capt AK Sachdev | Issue: Vol. 32.2 Apr-Jun 2017 | Date: 01 Nov , 2017

The threat of co-ordinated action by China and Pakistan is a distinct possibility and, under such a scenario, the IAF would have to spread its assets on two fronts; that would render the PLAAF...

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Artificial Intelligence in Aviation

Artificial Intelligence in Aviation

By: Air Marshal Anil Chopra | Issue: Vol. 32.2 Apr-Jun 2017 | Date: 13 Oct , 2017

Aviation is one of the most heavily regulated industries in the world due to safety reasons. Strict regulations have helped the aviation industry provide the safest way of transport per mile...

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Protecting Critical National Assets: Integrated Security Solutions

Protecting Critical National Assets: Integrated Security Solutions

By: Maj Gen AK Mehra | Issue: Vol. 32.2 Apr-Jun 2017 | Date: 25 Sep , 2017

It is a widely acknowledged fact that at least one recalcitrant neighbour is engaged in fomenting terrorist violence in our country. India, as a fast emerging global power, has to face up to this...

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The Dream Corridor

The Dream Corridor

By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Vol. 32.2 Apr-Jun 2017 | Date: 11 Sep , 2017

The Corridor is, first and foremost, a vital investment for Beijing, which is slowly ‘buying’ the strategic link. Beijing will soon control its new dominion, Pakistan. For India, it will be a...

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Taking the Bull by the Horns: A Case for Pro Active Defense to Counter...

Taking the Bull by the Horns: A Case for Pro Active Defense to Counter...

By: Brig Deepak Sinha | Issue: Vol. 32.2 Apr-Jun 2017 | Date: 10 Sep , 2017

It isn’t as if a bitter or prolonged conflict with China in the immediate or near future is our inevitable fate. In fact, one hopes that cooperation and convergence, leading to mutual prosperity...

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Unpredictable Security Environment: Need for an Integrated Military Approach

Unpredictable Security Environment: Need for an Integrated Military Approach

By: Brig Narender Kumar (Retd.) | Issue: Vol. 32.2 Apr-Jun 2017 | Date: 08 Sep , 2017

The overall effort should be to enhance operational capabilities in an evolving security scenario. The Indian Armed Forces cannot remain immune even in changing times to serve narrow parochial...

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Skilling Gaps in Defence Sector for ‘Make in India’

Skilling Gaps in Defence Sector for ‘Make in India’

By: Dr JP Dash & BB Sharma | Issue: Vol. 32.2 Apr-Jun 2017 | Date: 07 Sep , 2017

India has the potential to emerge as a global platform for defence research, manufacturing and supply chain sourcing. With ambitious acquisition plans for modernisation, India has a historic...

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What Was WikiLeaks All About?: A Classic Case of Cyber Security

What Was WikiLeaks All About?: A Classic Case of Cyber Security

By: Martand Jha | Issue: Vol. 32.2 Apr-Jun 2017 | Date: 06 Sep , 2017

The case of WikiLeaks is an eye-opener for many reasons. It has shown how a great power responds when its might is challenged. Though in this case, the challenge was not thrown militarily, but...

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China’s Interest in the South China Sea

China’s Interest in the South China Sea

By: Jayadeva Ranade | Issue: Vol. 32.2 Apr-Jun 2017 | Date: 26 Aug , 2017

China is the largest country in the region in terms of economic strength, military might and land area. Since 2013, China has begun trying to alter the status quo in its neighbourhood, views the...

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Anglo-Maratha Struggle for Empire: The Importance of Maritime Power

Anglo-Maratha Struggle for Empire: The Importance of Maritime Power

By: Col Anil Athale | Issue: Vol. 32.2 Apr-Jun 2017 | Date: 14 Aug , 2017

At the beginning of the seventeenth century, power equations on the West coast had undergone a major change. The Siddi of Janjira, though undefeated and surviving, was much weakened due to the...

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Creating an Indian Weapons Industry: The Total Matrix Approach

Creating an Indian Weapons Industry: The Total Matrix Approach

By: Prof Prodyut Das | Issue: Vol. 32.2 Apr-Jun 2017 | Date: 12 Aug , 2017

The present “Fire and Forget” style of weapons development has not worked and will not work in a hundred years. The development of weapons independence will need the active and sustained...

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Are Nuclear Weapons Losing their Sheen of Strategic Deterrence?

Are Nuclear Weapons Losing their Sheen of Strategic Deterrence?

By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa | Issue: Vol. 32.2 Apr-Jun 2017 | Date: 12 Jul , 2017

“A process of interacting expectations with additional motive for attack being produced by successive cycles of ‘He thinks we think he thinks we think… He thinks we think he will attack; so...

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The PLA Army: Vision 2025

The PLA Army: Vision 2025

By: Maj Gen Sheru Thapliyal, PhD | Issue: Vol. 32.2 Apr-Jun 2017 | Date: 05 Jul , 2017

The Chinese have long realised that technology is the cutting edge in modern combat. Accordingly, China has embarked on an ambitious programme to revamp its technological capability and this...

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Dealing With Maoist Insurgency: Focused Approach Required

Dealing With Maoist Insurgency: Focused Approach Required

By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Vol. 32.2 Apr-Jun 2017 | Date: 03 Jul , 2017

Hundreds of CAPF battalions have been raised and there is no reason they cannot deal with internal security issues. They must perform/be ‘made’ to perform, and most importantly, dominate the...

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Remembering a Hero in Bicentenary Year!

Remembering a Hero in Bicentenary Year!

By: Col Anil Athale | Issue: Vol. 32.2 Apr-Jun 2017 | Date: 29 Jun , 2017

This year the First Nine Gorkha Rifles celebrates its bicentenary and it is natural that we remember all the men who contributed to make this Paltan one of the very best in the world. Every...

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