Articles in Vol. 28.3 Jul-Sep 2013
Military Application of Amphibious Aircraft in the Indian Environment
By: Gp Capt B Menon | Issue: Vol. 28.3 Jul-Sep 2013 | Date: 03 Oct , 2015
Amphibian aircraft offer some advantages over fixed-wing land or carrier-based aircraft and helicopters. At longer ranges and over open ocean areas, these advantages become more marked. In our...
Attack Helicopters: Should India Have Them?
By: Gp Capt AG Bewoor | Issue: Vol. 28.3 Jul-Sep 2013 | Date: 19 Sep , 2015
The Attack Helicopter has value for money in a relatively benign environment for short, swift Special Operations where the opposition has restricted ability to interdict the AH. Other countries...
V-22 Osprey: Options for India
By: Air Marshal Raghu Rajan | Issue: Vol. 28.3 Jul-Sep 2013 | Date: 04 Feb , 2015
The Boeing V-22 Osprey is the only operational tilt-rotor aircraft that combines speed, payload capability and reach of a fixed-wing transport aircraft with hover-landing capability of a...
FDI in Defence: Dispelling the Myths
By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman | Issue: Vol. 28.3 Jul-Sep 2013 | Date: 08 Jul , 2014
India should adopt a flexible FDI policy to import much needed technologies which cannot be mastered through indigenous efforts in the acceptable time frame. Unfortunately, every time the issue...
India’s Energy Security: Role of Offshore Helicopter Operations
By: Gp Capt AK Sachdev | Issue: Vol. 28.3 Jul-Sep 2013 | Date: 13 Dec , 2013
The helicopter is the workhorse for the off-shore oil and gas exploration and production industry. The ever-increasing demand for energy, ever escalating prices of crude oil and the discovered...
The Economics of Defence: Investment vs Deterrence
By: Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee | Issue: Vol. 28.3 Jul-Sep 2013 | Date: 16 Nov , 2013
Alongside the troubles concurrent and brewing, there are hopeful signs of matured realisation and some improvements in the situation. History proves that such improvements in inter-state...
Decoding the Dragon’s Game Plan
By: Maj Gen Pushpendra Singh | Issue: Vol. 28.3 Jul-Sep 2013 | Date: 07 Nov , 2013
Over the past decades, we have constantly tried to mollify the Dragon. In the bargain, we have been inveigled into surrendering our bargaining chips one by one. Therefore, we should now strive to...
North-East India: Its place in the National Security Calculus
By: PM Heblikar | Issue: Vol. 28.3 Jul-Sep 2013 | Date: 29 Oct , 2013
There has been no major change in the military architecture in India’s Northeast region since 1962. In a strategic sense, India has remained more in a defensive posture all along the sensitive...
Disaster Management: Why the Army continues to take the Lead
By: Lt Gen Vijay Oberoi | Issue: Vol. 28.3 Jul-Sep 2013 | Date: 28 Oct , 2013
Conceptually, the armed forces ought to be called to aid the civil authorities only when the situation is beyond the capability of the civil administration. In practice, however, the armed forces...
Weaponisation of Space
By: Air Marshal Narayan Menon | Issue: Vol. 28.3 Jul-Sep 2013 | Date: 19 Oct , 2013
Weaponisation of space would include space control and space-based systems that could destroy targets on the earth’s surface. Space control involves protecting own systems in orbit, attacking...
Integrated Theatre Commands
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Vol. 28.3 Jul-Sep 2013 | Date: 15 Oct , 2013
Jointness and integration of the Military is an inevitable requirement for the modern day battlefield. The biggest challenge to jointness is to bring about an attitudinal shift by turning the...
UCAV: Airborne Without a Pilot
By: Gp Capt Joseph Noronha | Issue: Vol. 28.3 Jul-Sep 2013 | Date: 05 Oct , 2013
It seems likely that UCAVs will supplement manned aviation in a growing number of operational situations. The main reason is the capability UCAVs offer to mount a lethal attack without endangering...
Inter Service Rivalry and its Impact on National Security
By: Air Commodore KB Menon | Issue: Vol. 28.3 Jul-Sep 2013 | Date: 28 Sep , 2013
Inter-service rivalry is as old as the services themselves. Competition amongst the services and within the individual service is a good thing if it develops esprit-de-corps but at times, the...
The Advancing Borders of the Chinese Empire
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Vol. 28.3 Jul-Sep 2013 | Date: 17 Sep , 2013
The incidents in the Depsang Plain, near the Karakoram Pass in April or more recently, in Chumar in South Ladakh, are the continuance of Nehru’s blind spot for China. There is today a huge...
Paris: The Quiet Show?
By: Thomas Withington | Issue: Vol. 28.3 Jul-Sep 2013 | Date: 16 Sep , 2013
While the military mood of the Paris Air Show may have been arguably more ‘low key’ than in previous years, business was still being done and announcements were still being made. Certainly,...
The India - China Border Conundrum
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Vol. 28.3 Jul-Sep 2013 | Date: 12 Sep , 2013
China is becoming increasingly aggressive across the Himalayas for multiple reasons. She takes pride in her ‘Middle Kingdom’ legacy but this mentality is laced with guilt from decades of...
Developments in Stealth Technology
By: Special Correspondent | Issue: Vol. 28.3 Jul-Sep 2013 | Date: 10 Sep , 2013
In the never ending rivalry between offence and defence, there will be a continuing race in development between stealth technology and detection devices of air defence systems. In future, stealth...
The Chinese Game Plan
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol. 28.3 Jul-Sep 2013 | Date: 26 Aug , 2013
With the opening of two fronts against New Delhi, Beijing will, in collusion with Islamabad, repeat ‘1962’ in the near future on an enlarged scale. The ‘peace’ witnessed in Kashmir for...