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DTIS – Keeping up the Pace and Momentum
Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM, Distinguished Fellow, VIF

On 30 Apr 2020 the Prime Minister (PM) held a meeting with various stakeholders to discuss ways to boost the Defence and Aerospace sector1. Within a fortnight of this important meeting, the Defence Minister has launched the Defence Testing Infrastruc

May 25, 2020 National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence, Article, MoD, DTIS, Testing and Integration, Make-I, Make-II
Beyond the COVID-19: Indian Defence Industry
Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM, Distinguished Fellow, VIF

The social media is bulging at seams in making unending predictions by the hour related to the ‘life after Covid’. The continuum ranges from a ‘total doomsday’ scenario painted by the naysayersto the ‘we will win’ and how the life will be

May 06, 2020 National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence, Article, Defence industry, COVID-19, Challenges of Services, Defence and aerospace sector, Post covid world
Drone Swarms: Bracing up with The New Threat
Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM, Distinguished Fellow, VIF

(This article linked with a previous article titled, Drone Swarms - a Growing Lethality. Where is the world? Where are we? published on the VIF portal on 06 Apr 20201.While the said article highlighted the growing lethality of the drone swarms, the c

April 27, 2020 National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence, Article, Defence, Missiles, Hypersonic weapons, Drone swarms, Driven crafts, Swarm Threat
Drone Swarms -a Growing Lethality…. Where is the World? Where are We?
Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM, Distinguished Fellow, VIF

The credit of using the unmanned platform for the first time goes to Austria, when in1849 it attacked the Italian city of Venice using unmanned balloons loaded with explosives1. Surely, the Austrian warriors could have never imagined that this humble

April 06, 2020 National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence, Article, artificial intelligence, Air defence, Drone swarms, drone capabilities, UAV-X, Kamikaze drone, autonomous warfare, weaponised drones
Defence Exports: Analysing the Armenian Success
Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM, Distinguished Fellow, VIF

On 01 Mar 2020, the media was abuzz with the breaking news of India having won a 40 million USD contract to supply four Swathi Weapon Locating Radars (WLR) to Armenia beating strong competitors like Russia and Poland1. A contract of this magnitud

March 18, 2020 National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence, Article, DRDO, BrahMos, Swathi WLR, Defence Exports, DPSU, Akash missile, radars
Ukranian Tragedy - The Bigger Question
Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM, Distinguished Fellow, VIF

Far Beyond ‘Just a Human Error’ This article argues that that the downing of the Ukrainian civil airliner by an Iranian missile on 08 Jan 2020 that took 176 innocent lives1 is an incident that goes far beyond than ‘just a human error’; a

January 28, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy, Article, Quds Force, IRGC, missile strike, Ukrainian aircraft, human error, fratricide
Air Defence Command – Some Salient Aspects
Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM, Distinguished Fellow, VIF

The newly appointed Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) in his very first meeting after taking over on 01 Jan 2020, has directed Headquarters Integrated Defence Staff (IDS) to prepare a proposal by 30 Jun 2020 for the creation of Air Defence Command (ADC) b

January 17, 2020 National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence, Article, Air Threat, CDS, Air Defence Command, Vulnerable Areas, Vulnerable Points, TBA, Integrated Air Command & Control System, Air Defence Battle
IBGs – Need To Survive To Fight Another Day
Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM, Distinguished Fellow, VIF

Premise It was reported in Nov 2019, that after having tested the Integrated Battle Group (IBG) concept (explained later) both in the Western, as well as, the Eastern theatre, the Indian Army will be operationalising the IBGs in the field force so

January 14, 2020 National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence, Article, Missiles, UAVs, IBG, OP PARAKARAM, Cold Start Doctrine, PGMs, PLAAF, PAF
Amid Economic Woes, Pak Government Reports Revamping - A Review
Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM, Distinguished Fellow, VIF

Despite all odds… Despite all the economic woes and downturns, despite spiralling debt trap, and sky-rocketing costs of imports in the face of sharp currency de-valuation, not to mention the IMF imposed economic re-structuring and the recent na

October 30, 2019 National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence, Article, Pakistan’s military modernisation, Pakistan’s high expenditure on defence
Building Indigenous Missile Capability - An Imperative
Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM, Distinguished Fellow, VIF

When the Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme (IGMDP) was sanctioned way back in 1982-83, Agni Missile was not even a part of the four missile Projects in its development agenda which included the Prithvi Short Range Surface-to-Surface Mis

October 10, 2019 Technological and Scientific Studies, Article, Building indigenous missile capability, Inescapability of different types of missiles, Range of air threats
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