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Drone Threat is Real: India Needs a Comprehensive Counter Drone Strategy

The Drone Threat Unmanned vehicles, referred to as drones in this paper for ease, are unquestionably useful, but the problem is that this is true even for bad guys. The million-dollar question in the billion-dollar unmanned industry is how to stop...

Critical Gaps in Atmanirbhar India

Atmanirbhar Bharat requires much more than just local sourcing- and that local sourcing itself is a function of availability of indigenous technology. This remains the most critical gap in the realization of Atmanirbharta which is so necessary for...

Science and Technology (S&T) Digest 1-15 May 2023, Issue 13

I. Defence and Security DRDO & Navy Conduct Test Trial of Air Droppable Container ‘ADC-150’ DRDO Conducts Design Validation Trial of Vertical Shaft Department of Defence Production Waives off Quality Assurance Charges MoD Approves 4th Positive...

Atmanirbharta in Defence: Approval of 4th Positive Indigenisation List

The Hindi term "Atmanirbharta" means "self-reliance" or "self-sufficiency." In the defence domain, "Atmanirbharta" refers to India's objective of becoming self-sufficient in defence capabilities, reducing reliance on other nations for defence...

Science and Technology (S&T) Digest 16-30 April 2023, Issue 12

Defence and Security DRDO & Indian Navy Conduct Trial of BMD Interceptor from Naval Platform Industry-Friendly Reforms in AHSP to further Promote Ease of Doing Business New Specialist Units to Counter Cyber Threats and Challenges Dynatron...

Science and Technology (S&T) Digest, 1-15April 2023, Issue 11

In this Issue Defence and Security Defence Exports Reaches an All-Time High of Rs. 15,920 crore in FY 2022-23 India’s Defence Industrial Corridors (DICs) Defence Forces to Place Orders for Two More Units of the Pralay Ballistic Missiles HAL...

Science and Technology (S&T) Digest, 1-15 March 2023, Issue 9

In this Issue I. Defence and Security Procurement of 70 HTT-40 Basic Trainer Aircraft and Cadet Training Ships DRDO Conducts Flight Tests of Very Short-Range Air Defence System Missile Flight-Test of DRDO’s Indigenous Power Take off Shaft...

VIF News Digest: National Security - Defence Studies & Terrorism, 15-31 March 2023

DEFENCE Exercise Sea Dragon 23. Defence Acquisition Council approves proposals worth Rs 70,500 crore for the armed forces & Indian Coast Guard under buy (Indian-IDDM) category. Seminar on ‘Emerging Disruptive and futuristic technology and...

VIF News Digest: National Security - Defence Studies & Terrorism, 01-15 February 2023

DEFENCE Defence Budget 2023-24. Mission Mode (MM) projects of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO). Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) and Commander of Royal Cambodian Army visiting India. HAL’s...

A Perspective on Defence Budget 2023-24

At Rs 5,93,538, the overall defence budget for the financial year (FY) 2023-24 is one of the largest constituents of the union budget, trailing behind interest payments (Rs 10,79,971 crore) and capital expenditure (Rs 10,09,961 crore). This sounds...

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